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Co-authored with Jamie Jensen. Get ready to TURN IT UP at our all-digital Cisco Live 2021. We’re excited for the creative experiences, impactful speakers, and thought-provoking sessions slated globally March 31st – April 1st. And join us for our engaging industry sessions across government, healthcare, and education! Find a full list of industry sessions and register now.           At Cisco Live 2021, our thought leaders and subject matter experts are ready…

Reimagine the Future of Work series announcing the availability of solutions that are purpose-built to help companies transform how they work while keeping employees safe, connected and productive. Custom Vertical Solutions with Partners Webex helps you to remove technology silos and innovate with ease by developing custom vertical specific solutions. Telehealth Connector The Cisco Webex Telehealth Connector provides a quick and simple way to connect healthcare services and patients over web browsers for video consultations…

Things move fast in our industry, and when it’s time to change, you can’t hesitate. Cisco’s software transformation is a perfect example. And as we drive innovation in our software, you can trust that we will deliver more visibility into your entitlements and renewals, and more choice in how you purchase and use Cisco technology. But it hasn’t always been easy. We know software asset and entitlement management is complex, and while our customers and…

In the not-too-distant past, everything in the application and networking stack was under IT’s control. Workloads lived securely in the on-premise data center—people sat in their campus offices connected to the secure wireless network, and an MPLS service with an SLA connected branch offices to the data center. Today, workforce productivity depends on cloud and SaaS applications that often rely on the public cloud infrastructure, which in turn depends on the internet as part or…

Anyone who has ever observed or participated in a dance rehearsal is familiar with the count-off cadence, 5, 6, 7, 8.  The same is true of musicians who count at the beginning of a piece, or an athlete awaiting the starting signal. These indicators alert us to the same thing: Be ready NOW. Cybersecurity has a set of starting signals as well, but they differ in one aspect. In the event of a cybersecurity event,…

For over a year now, organizations big and small, across every industry, have grappled with radical disruption. We all know the story. Virtually overnight, organizations faced an immediate transition from their standard operating approach to a completely remote model. This created ripple effects across IT organizations as they deciphered how to scale secure remote access to their networks, maintain critical business operations, and enable collaboration and innovation from anywhere. Now as we enter a new…

We all know the old saw about pushing a strand of spaghetti uphill, and I’ve got to wonder whether that’s what we’re now doing with 5G.  First, 5G is going to happen because of the orderly process of modernizing wireless networks.  It doesn’t need “justifying”. The problem is that vendors want 5G to be revolutionary and transformational, rather than orderly. Second, that need to seem revolutionary has pushed 5G stories to the boundaries of sensibility….

First, the good news. Starting with the mid-April release of Google’s Chrome 90 web browser, Chrome will default to trying to load the version of a website that’s been secured with a Transport Layer Security (TLS). These are the sites that show a closed lock in the Chrome Omnibox, what most of us know as the Chrome address (URL) bar. The bad news is that just because a site is secured by HTTPS doesn’t mean…

IDC has released a new study, the first of its kind, that predicts that cloud computing could help to prevent more than one billion metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the next three years. The forecast uses IDC data on server distribution and cloud and on-premises software use along with third-party information on data center power usage, carbon dioxide emissions per kilowatt-hour, and emission comparisons of cloud and non-cloud data centers. IDC’s forecast…

We all know that the IT industry is very dynamic and moving extremely fast. Cisco is leading the way in addressing the job requirements of tomorrow with a new set of certifications. In fact, the whole certification program from Cisco went through a massive update that affected all Cisco exams and certifications. The most impactful (in my humble opinion) are the DevNet Certifications launched early last year. Building the DevNet certifications program I had the…