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Education is rapidly changing. Hybrid and distance learning have transformed the industry, and this has been accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Back when I was attending grad school at Wharton, the “digital divide” was just a future concept. That concept is now a reality. For example, if my children don’t have consistent, secure access to the internet in a performant manner, their learning, and overall education is compromised. From the evolving role of the campus…

The Next Generation of Events will be Hybrid There’s no question the pandemic has forever changed how the world works, accelerating digital transformations and putting a spotlight on solutions that enable productive and inclusive remote work experiences. This dynamic has been profoundly apparent in the event space; when in-person participation came to a halt, event planners were forced to adopt a virtual-only format. Now, as the recovery continues, the hybrid event model – one that combines…

One of my most memorable work-related travel adventures was a visit to Denmark. Here, the event ‘happy hour’ was spent enjoying the rides and attractions at the Tivoli Gardens amusement park in Copenhagen. For those not familiar, Tivoli is one of the oldest amusement parks in the world, operating since 1843. After being mesmerized by the colorful lights that guide you, you will stumble upon attractions like the most creative fun house ever constructed. You…

A little over a year after the first COVID-19 lockdowns in the US, the US IT industry has recovered the jobs lost in the aftermath and added new ones. And that growth looks likely to continue, resuming the annual growth seen before the pandemic. The latest figures from IT employment consultancy Janco Associates show 23,600 IT jobs were added in April, based on the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly reports. Thart’s a remarkable number…

Overall U.S. employment figures for April may have been dismal but not in the tech sector, which has grown steadily all year, adding 16,000 new jobs in April for a total of 60,900 so far this year. That’s according to CompTIA‘s analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) latest Employment Situation Summary. The overall jobs numbers, which came out last week, were dismal. The U.S. created just 266,000 new jobs in April when…

Linux commands offer a lot of flexibility. This post details some ways to make them even more convenient to use by making use of some clever tricks. Using file-name completion You can avoid typing a full file name by typing the beginning of its name and pressing the tab key. If the string uniquely identifies a file, doing this will complete the filename. Otherwise, you can enter another letter in the name and press tab…

  To say we’re witnessing a revolution in healthcare today is an understatement. Between telehealth, 5G expansions and business intelligence analytics—the pace of pandemic-led change has been rapid and will not be slowing anytime soon.   Longtime Cisco customer CVS Health was on a digital transformation path long before any of us had heard of COVID-19, and this week I am thrilled that MinuteClinic, the medical clinic inside select CVS Pharmacy locations will be honored…

As TSMC charges to 5nm transistor designs and Intel struggles for 7nm, IBM has topped them all with the world’s first 2-nanometer node chip. OK, it won’t come to market for four years, according to IBM, and they might not be the first name that comes to mind when you think of processor design, but they are the quiet power in the semiconductor world. As far as commercial chips go, IBM makes two: the Power…

As the enterprise edge expands to include semi-permanent remote workforces, IoT, and a range of applications like AI and M2M, they generate torrents of nonstop data that must be stored indefinitely and be available in near-real-time to users and applications. Legacy storage architectures are failing to keep up with both data growth and user/application demand. While storage innovation is pushing more workloads into the cloud, many startups have found that the average enterprise is not…

In collaboration with Vishal Gupta   In a recent blog, my colleague Travis Norling described Cisco IT’s motivations and processes for shifting to a software-defined access (SD-Access) fabric network – part of our ongoing journey to an advanced network architecture. In this blog, I will explain the value framework we created to measure SD-Access’s impact, along with outcomes achieved to date. As SD-Access was deployed across six buildings on Cisco’s San Jose campus, Cisco IT’s…