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To achieve application agility and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, enterprises need an agile infrastructure that is adaptable, flexible and provides abstraction capabilities. The challenge that enterprises face today is that infrastructure relies on proprietary tools and org structures impede collaboration across various teams. Operations are siloed across NetOps, SecOps, DevOps and CloudOps teams resulting in lack of agility to address dynamic business needs. For example, NetOps team is responsible for provisioning network connectivity, and…

Announcing the first CX Customer Hero Awards winners! The CX Customer Hero Awards celebrate our customers – the changemakers, innovators, and discoverers who have achieved industry-leading and transformational outcomes for their businesses.   Drum roll please… And the First Round winner of the 2021 CX Customer Hero Awards is:   Westpac Banking Corporation Westpac, one of Australia’s largest banks, partnered with Cisco CX on an ambitious digital transformation plan to modernize its core network and…

To successfully guide our customers on their digital transformation journey, last year, Cisco Business Critical Services unveiled a multi-tier subscription service for organizations of all sizes. In addition, we introduced Specialized Expertise offers (Scrum Services and Expert-as-a-Service) to support the creation of agile workforces and a best-practices operational IT model to create resilient, adaptive, and transformative IT environments. Today, we’re pleased to announce a series of enhancements to our portfolio for multiple customer segments. These…

When I think of Miami, Florida my mind goes to year-around sunshine, warm azure waters, and palm tree lined boulevards. But for the students at the Academy for International Education (AIE) located in the heart of Miami, there’s a lot more to life than spending time at the beach. These kids are at the forefront of technology and are involved in projects that most K-12 schools only dream about. This includes extended learning with opportunities…

Starting at a new company comes with a ton of emotions, questions and unknowns. When I got my offer to join Cisco as a Talent Acquisition Recruiter on our Customer Experience team, I was immediately excited – but, I also had a lot of questions. Was I making the right decision? What would this new opportunity bring? How would my career grow? What could I expect from Cisco?  If you’re currently in the hiring process,…

Picture the scene. A mission-critical application has gone down. The various technology teams gather to figure out what the problem is. The cast includes: The application team, focused on app topologies and responsible for middleware, databases, and logs The infrastructure team, focused on technology stacks, hybrid cloud environments, and workloads (code and resources) The security team, focused on combating breaches and mitigating risk The network team, focused on connectivity The digital experience team, focused on…

Cisco IT has powerful motivations to shift to a software-defined access (SDA) fabric network, as part of our ongoing journey to an advanced network architecture. In this blog I will explain these motivations. In part 2 (coming soon), I’ll share our guiding principles, how we did it, and payoffs to date. Over the last several years, demands on the Cisco campus network have skyrocketed. Think application-centric infrastructure (ACI). Software-defined WAN. Cloud firewalls. To manage a…

5G networks that incorporate legacy technology could be vulnerable to compromise via a lack of mapping between transport and application layers, according to a report by Ireland-based AdaptiveMobile Security. Network slicing is central to realizing many of 5G’s more ambitious capabilities because it enables individual access points or base stations to subdivide networks into multiple logical sections—slices—effectively providing entirely separate networks for multiple uses. The slices can be used for different purposes—say, mobile broadband for…

Cisco for the cloud? Absolutely. We may not be the first name you think about but we’ve been a leader in the cloud market for years, quietly raking up innovations and building solutions. In fact, many companies consider Cisco an invaluable a strategic partner for their cloud migration. Why? As much promise as the cloud holds, it’s not without its challenges. The typical company has an ecosystem of eighteen or more clouds. Some public. Some…

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) are market trends that had started well before the year 2020. But last year they were both accelerated and catalyzed at warp speed to fundamentally overhaul the security industry. Some observers say as much as a decade’s worth of digital transformation occurred across the IT industry since RSA Conference 2020 to keep businesses resilient throughout the pandemic. And the…