Author: Asad Yaseen

The How to Develop a Winning Transition Strategy for Enterprise Cloud Calling blog series offers a four-part guided tour on how to take your business to a cloud calling and collaboration future that delivers all the benefits you expect from a quality cloud service. Lost in the Desert I am an avid runner, but directionally challenged. On a recent visit to Arizona, I decided to take a pre-dawn desert trail run, to experience the desert…

Cisco is expanding its Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms Family and Catalyst Cellular Gateways to help customers build a resilient, reliable digital footprint that spans data center, cloud and branch deployments. The new announcements extend the both the Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms Family and Cellular Gateways to include a new 5G Cellular Gateway, a new virtual CPE edge device that can host Cisco or third party VNFs, as well as extensions to the Catalyst 8500 aggregation…

Today, one of the hottest topics in IT is the emerging Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) model, an architectural framework conceived by Gartner that outlines the future vision for transforming legacy WAN and security technologies to a cloud-managed edge, combining WAN edge capabilities with cloud-delivered network security functions (such as SWG, CASB, FWaaS and ZTNA) to support the dynamic secure access needs of digital enterprises. The question of the day: Is now the time for managed service…

What is a campus? A hub for student activity. A place of learning. A center of research and innovation. A home for students away from home for the first time. A workplace for faculty and staff.  When we think of the campus, we think of a physical location and its parts: the library, residential living, a student union, research facilities, labs, the campus green, and classrooms. But what if we were to think about the…

Today more than ever, it is critical to protect our family and friends, both online and off. This Unhackable MFA challenge is a simple pledge that anyone can make and can have a major impact on everyone’s online safety. Therefore, we are challenging every Cisco employee, cyber fan, security and IT Pro and Unhackable podcast listener to take a small step and contact someone right now to tell them you’ll help them with MFA. Take…