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A startup founded by two MIT grads says that it can deploy self-powering sensors to handle low-intensity IoT tasks, eliminating the need for batteries or wired electrical supplies, adding a new level of flexibility to IoT deployments. Ben Calhoun and Dave Wentzloff are the founders of Everactive, an IoT-device manufacturing startup whose sensor modules can create their own power from a variety of sources, including indoor solar, thermal gradient differential, and vibrations. The sensors can…

Prologue Over the years, as new technology has been introduced, there has always been a barrier to adoption. While automation is powerful, we need to test it fully. Delays in getting started are typically caused by the wait on lab equipment. If it’s not lab equipment, it’s licensing or the time required to set up and cable the equipment. This, together with the development time, resources, and scheduling, makes the whole activity painful. This typically…

In collaboration with Joel Barbier and Chris Groves   Why automating software image management (SWIM) matters Like many network administrators, you’ve probably come to dread the process of upgrading your company’s device software. Most IT organizations still do this manually – a tedious process in which a network engineer must remain tethered to a computer while completing several detailed steps: Identifying the correct code, or “golden image” Submitting a change request Obtaining a copy of…

Earlier this year Cisco completed its acquisition of imimobile, adding an enterprise-grade CPaaS platform to Cisco’s industry-leading collaboration and contact center solution portfolio. The Cisco Financial Services team welcomes imimobile’s Jay Patel – VP & CEO of imimobile as our guest blogger this week. Last year undoubtedly created challenges for businesses across all industries, forcing many to accelerate digital transformation initiatives in order to communicate with customers digitally at scale during a period of lockdowns…

In today’s fast-changing world, organizations must focus on IT security and resiliency to protect against cyberthreats and remain competitive as they evolve their technology for digital transformation. According to a report from ZDNet, there’s been a 400% increase in attacks on remote workers and a whopping 600% rise in cloud cyberattacks alone since 2020.[1] The call for stronger IT security and resiliency is loud and clear, and Cisco Customer Experience (CX) is ready to answer….

Our customers are the heart and soul of everything we do at Cisco and each one of them has an interesting story to tell! Our new Q&A series allows us to shine a spotlight on some of our most passionate customer advocates in The Global Gateway community as we learn more about their stories and backgrounds. You may be wondering: What is The Global Gateway? It’s a community for Cisco customers where they can build…

Eager to cash in on the massive potential for IoT-based data storage and analytics, public-cloud vendors are diving headlong into the IoT market, offering enterprises everything from individual building blocks to fully managed services and every combination in between. The amount of data that is expected to be generated by IoT devices is staggering. IDC predicts that by 2025, there will be 55.9 billion connected devices worldwide, 75% of which will be connected to an…

We reached a big milestone in 2020: Cloud services revenue finally surpassed enterprise spending on data centers, according to the Synergy Research Group. One of the longest-running trends in IT – moving to the cloud – has been turbocharged, driven in part by a pandemic that pushed enterprises to avoid the logistical challenges and capital expense of deploying on prem. But the endless capacity to add horsepower without provisioning your own infrastructure isn’t the biggest…

NetApp is making a major effort to support hybrid cloud with a batch of software announcements around storage products, converged infrastructure, and cloud-management services. The main news was the release of the latest version of its flagship ONTAP software, as well as updates to other products designed to help organizations build a better hybrid-cloud strategies. ONTAP is the operating system for NetApp’s FAS (hybrid flash-disk) and AFF (all-flash) storage arrays. The latest version, 9.9, adds…

The more you know about how Linux works, the better you’ll be able do some good troubleshooting when you run into a problem. In this post, we’re going to dive into a problem that a contact of mine, Chris Husted, recently ran into and what he did to determine what was happening on his system, stop the problem in its tracks, and make sure that it was never going to happen again. Disaster strikes It…