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Cisco Webex is the world’s leading collaboration solution, powering Fortune 500 companies, governments, universities, healthcare organizations, and now, Formula 1 racing! Today, McLaren Racing announced that Cisco Webex is the official collaboration partner of the McLaren Formula 1 team. Embracing Hybrid Sports 2020 was a year unlike any other; we saw five years of digital transformation in five months and a massive acceleration of future of work initiatives. Every industry was impacted… including sports and…

Financial Services institutions have experienced unforeseen challenges and significant disruption during the Pandemic and beyond, but also unprecedented opportunities to accelerate growth and digitize business operations to enhance employee productivity, customer experience, and innovation. There is an increased sense of urgency to Connect, Secure & Automate, and most importantly, to make Banking, Insurance & Wealth Management easier for customers, partners and stakeholders. Top of mind industry trends include: Hybrid Operating Model – not a “one-size-fits-all”, as…

This Blog is a joint collaboration between Ravi Balakrishnan (Cisco) and Eric Ji  (F5) Kubernetes is all about abstracting away complexity. As Kubernetes continues to evolve, it becomes more intelligent and will become even more powerful when it comes to helping enterprises manage their data center, not just at the cloud. While enterprises have had to deal with the challenges associated with managing different types of modern applications (AI/ML, Big data, and analytics) to process that data, they…

As we move into the third month of 2021, the pandemic continues to create new risks and force transformation in retail. Brick and mortars open and close. Where shopping online and remote workforce were once “nice-to-haves,” they are now mission critical. Retail locations of all shapes and sizes need remote solutions than can empower customer and associate interaction, provide flexible access, and enable it all with end-to-end security. So how can your organization keep your…

Network detection and response combined with pervasive observability strengthens cybersecurity across cloud, hybrid and IoT environments SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Awake Security, the network detection and response (NDR) security division of Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET), today unveiled platform enhancements that strengthen its ability to detect advanced threats, protect the unmanaged attack surface and autonomously perform threat hunting and forensic investigations. Enhancements also include new features that make the platform even more intuitive for security analysts at…

From specialty retailers to big-box retailers, the world of retail has experienced a massive shift in the last couple of decades due to the arrival of e-commerce. Because of the virtual nature of the market today, companies like Amazon and Alibaba continue to chip away at the revenue of traditional brick-and-mortar stores. Recent events have only accelerated the need for digital transformation. To not only survive but thrive, retailers are investing to reimagine the customer…

When the call came from management to shut down operations and transition all employees to remote work, IT staff at Woodforest National Bank® had a plan. “Our existing architecture wasn’t designed to support the massive increase in remote office workers.” Said James Heck, AVP of Network Services. “Suddenly, everyone in the main offices was told to go home. The need for remote connectivity exploded—quadrupling overnight.” It wasn’t easy. Woodforest National Bank is celebrating 40 years…

John Deere, the $35.5 billion maker of farm equipment, is planting the seeds of company-owned 5G cellular networking in some of its manufacturing plants after investing half-a-million dollars in wireless licenses at an FCC auction last year. The company says that having a piece of wireless spectrum more or less to itself is key to updating certain of its production facilities. Deere bought citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) licenses in five Iowa and Illinois counties…

Overall Internet traffic on Comcast’s network spiked substantially at the beginning of the pandemic in the U.S. in March 2020, but normalized over the subsequent months, according to a report released today by the internet service provider. As the largest individual home ISP in the U.S., Comcast’s data on Internet usage represents a useful snapshot into overall home connectivity during the pandemic. Nearly two-thirds of Americans–62%–reported working from home at some point during the current…

Co-authored by Brad Saffer and Warwick Calkin Reimagining excellence at University of Western Australia Despite being located in Perth, Australia – the most remote capital city in the world, where case numbers have been measured in the dozens – not hundreds or thousands, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the University of Western Australia (UWA) in profound ways.  The university is a member of Australia’s Group of Eight (Go8) universities, the equivalent of the Ivy League in the…