Author: Asad Yaseen

As they began planning the worldwide broadcast of their Global Innovation Challenge,  Logicalis team members knew they faced a huge challenge. As a socially minded company, Logicalis had challenged its 6500 employees to come up with innovative ways to solve social or environmental problems facing their communities by leveraging Cisco’s broad technology portfolio. Logicalis has taken a leadership position in bringing to market innovative applications that solve real-world problems by combining its intellectual property with…

Pure Storage, the all-flash array storage provider, has expanded its Pure-as-a-Service offering to include flexible, pay-as-you-go options for bridging public and private clouds. The company launched Pure-as-a-Service late last year, but it was based on its previous Evergreen service, which had a per-use model for clients looking to move from capex to opex economics. It provides block, file, and object data management capabilities under a single unified subscription. First stage Pure-as-a-Service was formally known as…

With more and more data-center workloads being shifted to the cloud, it’s important for enterprise IT staff to learn cloud skills not only to stay relevant within their organizations but also to prepare for career advancement and better salaries. One way to accomplish this is to learn the ins and outs of working in specific cloud providers’ environments. This is a brief description of how to get grounded in AWS. According to training firm Global…

AWS has turned up the drumbeat to move workloads off of the mainframe and into its cloud.  At its weeks-long re:Invent virtual event, Amazon Web Services said it would soon expand its Competency Program to include even more services to migrate mainframe workloads to the cloud. The services are an expansion of mainframe migration services AWS has had on its menu for the past few years. AWS says its Competency Program is designed to identify,…

We recently announced the launch of our fifth annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, with prize money totaling $1 million USD. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is a competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage technology entrepreneurs solving the world’s social and environmental problems. This year, we are also offering a Digital Inclusivity Prize. The $50,000 USD Digital Inclusivity Prize will be awarded to a startup using technology that closes the ever-widening digital divide. This…