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Virtually every week brings news of yet another high-profile cybersecurity attack on citizens, companies or governments. Over the last year, large parts of our world moved online. This unprecedented, large-scale digital migration has also made us ever more exposed to cybersecurity risks. Our security stance has fundamentally changed as the pandemic accelerated the transition of applications. Disruption brought about by the crisis is an opportunity to embed security, not an excuse to skip it. Size…

Have you ever hit the character limit on an Instagram post? I have – and it was all because I was sharing my #LoveWhereYouWork story during the annual #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork contest! From the moment I found out about the possibility of being contracted to work for Cisco as a SocialBridge Agent – and heard about their values and culture, it seriously sounded like a dream job. I thought to myself, “There’s no way a company…

AMD saw another quarter of outstanding growth in sales of its server chips, giving the company its highest single-quarter gain for server CPUs since 2006 and eating into Intel’s most valuable market segment, according to the latest market report from Mercury Research. We’ll get to the desktop segment later, but AMD’s server CPU share grew 1.8 percentage points from Q4 2020 to Q1 2021, from 7.1% to 8.9%. That is astonishing as server numbers just…

VMware says its COO for products and cloud services, Raghu Raghuram, will be its next permanent CEO, a signal that the company’s board intends to keep VMware on its present course. When Raghuram takes the reins in June, it will end a four-month interregnum, during which the company has been helmed by CFO Zane Rowe. Former CEO Pat Gelsinger became the CEO at Intel in February, returning to the company where he had worked for…

A flurry of announcements from hardware vendors points to a change in how enterprises are purchasing servers, storage and networking resources for their data centers and edge deployments. To entice companies to keep workloads on premises, hardware vendors including Cisco, Dell, HPE, IBM, Lenovo and others are offering consumption-based pricing for data-center infrastructure. These pay-per-use products are designed to shorten procurement cycles, allow customers to scale up or down with demand, and more economically link…

Have you ever looked at your switch and wondered what is going on inside there? It hums, at times it buzzes, and it has a few blinky lights, but what is it really doing? Are you able to understand what types of traffic are being sent to and fro? And do you ever wonder if any threats are lurking within? Of course you have; we all know that threats are everywhere and can be anywhere…

In my life, as in the lives of others, there have been those fearful, even existential moments. Heading into surgery. Rushing my sons to the ER (on more occasions than I care to count). When my parents were ill and ailing. These are the moments when nothing else in the world matters, except love and competent care. During every one of these frightful moments, it has been nurses who made the difference. They do more,…

Charting a Course It’s no exaggeration to say 2020 brought unprecedented change to the business world. Many of these changes could not have been anticipated. Other trends, such as remote collaboration, were changes that were already evident but accelerated in adoption. That’s the case with the shift to the cloud. Previously, while many organizations had embraced the cloud, others were more cautious in their approach. This wait-and-see attitude was no longer possible in the environment…

After the introduction from Michelle last week, I am excited to share my thoughts on Marketing Velocity Digital 2021. The last few weeks have been a whirlwind, as I transitioned to lead Cisco’s Global Partner Marketing team. Marketing Velocity gave me the opportunity to take a breath, and to help our partner marketers become future ready. The notion of being future ready isn’t necessarily a new concept. It’s been used before to define several business…

Question: What do all of these have in common? A) Warehouses and distribution centers. B) Parking garages. C) Outdoor malls. D) Ports and airports. Answer: They’re outside traditional office walls—and real-world showcases for the value of industrial networking. Think IP cameras, badge readers, conveyors, sorters, and other IoT sensors. Popular payoffs for industrial networking include improving safety and security, increasing efficiency with automation, and creating great customer and employee experiences. Think about a business that…