Author: Asad Yaseen

We have created a new blog series that will focus on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Each blog in this series will highlight a different Cisco employee who works closely with CSR initiatives across the company. Maria Gorsuch-Kennedy leads the Supply Chain Social and Environmental Responsibility team at Cisco. After studying anthropology, her career journey took her on many paths, from social services to web development, corporate affairs, public policy, and…

Co-authored with Sabrina Gonzalez As we move into the second month of 2021, the pandemic continues to create new risks and force transformation in education.  Classrooms open and close. Students and educators grapple with questions of access and equity. Schools, colleges, and universities are forced to reassess their digital strategies to enable remote teaching and distance learning today and prepare for a hybrid future. Where distance learning and remote teaching were once “nice-to-haves,” they are now mission…

BT has been a close partner of Cisco for over 30 years — which is incredible when you consider how much the industry has changed during this time. In the last three decades, BT has successfully transformed itself from a traditional communications service provider into a far more agile multi-national company with a clear-eyed focus on one, all-encompassing mission: to ensure that its customers always enjoy the best experience possible when using its wide range…

Simplified network segmentation with dynamic partner integrations SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced a new zero trust security framework for today’s digital enterprise. Arista Multi-Domain Macro-Segmentation Service is a suite of capabilities for integrating security policy with the network through an open and consistent network segmentation approach across network domains. Enabled through Arista EOS® (Extensible Operating System) and CloudVision® capabilities, the latest Arista MSS® (Macro-Segmentation Service) functionality includes a new group segmentation…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — News summary Dell EMC PowerStore’s end-to-end NVMe design delivered 6x performance improvements for scientific computing applications at the core of the University’s research efforts The university adopted Dell EMC PowerMax and experienced 5x faster data processing and 80% better performance for its essential applications, accelerating application and data access Full story The University of Pisa, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious universities, has selected Dell…

In today’s digital-first world where both data volume and cybercrime are on the rise, the partnership between Cohesity and Cisco is taking center stage as organizations look for innovative ways to improve data security, eliminate data silos, and reduce cost overruns and complexity. IT teams worldwide, empowered by our joint solutions, are simplifying data management—backup, archiving, disaster recovery, file and object services, dev/test, and analytics—while unlocking value from their data and realizing more ways to…

Co-Authored by  Sanjeev Desai, Cohesity In today’s digital-first world where both data volume and cybercrime are on the rise, the partnership between Cohesity and Cisco is taking center stage as organizations look for innovative ways to improve data security, eliminate data silos, and reduce cost overruns and complexity. IT teams worldwide, empowered by our joint solutions, are simplifying data management—backup, archiving, disaster recovery, file and object services, dev/test, and analytics—while unlocking value from their data…