Author: Asad Yaseen

Webex Awarded Best in Class The year is off to an amazing start for us at Webex with the news of winning Trustradius Awards for Best Feature Set, Best Usability, and Best Customer Support. As we wrapped up 2020, we introduced the all new Webex, which included dozens of innovative updates, so we are excited to see the great response. In the Video Conferencing category, Webex Meetings earned 1st in Best Feature Set, as well…

We have heard it before. Securing your organization isn’t getting any easier. The remote workforce is expanding the attack surface. We need context from users and endpoints to control proper access, and IT teams need to ensure our data stores are resilient and always available to gain the telemetry they need to reduce risk. Yes, zero trust is a great approach, but network segmentation in the workplace is hard, and it can shut down critical…

The following is an excerpt from the 2020 CSR Impact Report. Circular design is fundamental to our ability to implement a circular economy, both now and into the future. Our circular design strategy spans five focus areas, which address our most material impacts. In fiscal 2020, guided by this framework, we developed Circular Design Principles, allowing us to make progress toward several of our product and packaging goals: Material use: Incorporate recycled content into our products,…

Today’s model-driven programmability makes the network a core foundation for revenue generation. Therefore, companies must implement network orchestration to simplify their entire lifecycle management for services. For virtualized networks, this means transparent orchestration that spans multiple domains in the network and includes network functions virtualization (NFV), and software-defined networking (SDN), and the traditional physical network with all its components.    This is where Network Service Orchestration or NSO steps up. NSO is a model-driven (YANG) platform for automating your network orchestration. It supports multi-vendor networks through a…

Congratulations to the Cisco leaders on the 2021 CRN Channel Chiefs List CRN just announced its picks for their 2021 Channel Chiefs List. Just like last year, Cisco placed several leaders on the list for 2021. In case you’re not familiar with CRN, it is a leader in IT channel partner and service provider news. They annually highlight leaders within the partner world who demonstrate making partners a priority. The Channel Chiefs list always recognizes leaders…

Today, I’m excited to talk to you about how Cisco partners make more money, increase profits, and win with a focus on selling software. Of course, software has been a core part of our business and yours for quite some time. But today, we’re leveraging the power of the Cisco portfolio to offer transformative software licensing agreements and buying programs that will help you transform and become a best-in-class software-centric business. Best-in-class partners drive growth…

Throughout the past year, we’ve heard a lot about recovery and support for small businesses. Large enterprises are shifting their priorities to longer-term business resiliency. But for the organizations in between – not quite large and not quite small – the past year has also had a significant and unique impact on business goals and IT investments. How are midsize companies different? The emphasis on midsize businesses is an important one, as business goals and…