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To think that this time twelve months ago we had no idea we were mere weeks away from a world-wide shutdown is almost incomprehensible. People were entering their offices, meeting colleagues for happy hours, and had no idea that we were about to face a disruption the likes of which most of us had never seen. Then it happened. In the blink of an eye the office environment all but vanished and organizations had to…

The Insider Pro and Computerworld survey of more than 1,100 IT professionals reveals salary trends for a wide range of tech job titles from CIO and other leadership roles to middle management to non-management roles. We share how your job title, experience, and gender affect your compensation plan. And reveal whether having certifications will help you land a job, pay rise or promotion. We also asked the 503 respondents who identified themselves as managers about…

Cisco is pleased to announce, for the second year in a row the Cisco Nexus 3550-F HPT switch has been awarded the TradingTech Insight 2021 Best Time-Stamping/Latency Measurement System Award. TradingTech Insight Awards The TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2021 recognize excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on manufacturers providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions. These awards reflect the different challenges facing market practitioners and suppliers as they…

Switches are the heart of a network data plane and at the heart of any switch is the buffering subsystem. Buffering is required to deal with transient oversubscription in the network. The size of the buffer determines how large of a burst can be accommodated before packets are dropped. The goodput of the network depends heavily on how many packets are dropped. The amount of buffer needed for optimal performance is mainly dependent on the…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — News summary Record full-year revenue of $94.2 billion Record full-year operating income of $5.1 billion and record non-GAAP operating income of $10.8 billion Record cash flow from operations of $11.4 billion Record Client Solutions Group shipments, revenue and operating income Full story Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces financial results for its fiscal 2021 fourth quarter and full year. Full-year revenue was a record $94.2 billion, up 2%…

The 10x Better Experience for IT series focuses on enhanced data capabilities that empower IT administrators to manage more effectively Over the past year, we’ve seen this massive shift to remote work and the accelerated adoption of integrated cloud collaboration. For Cisco, we lived this journey with our customers as they moved to our Webex collaboration platform with calling, messaging, meetings, sharing, presence and seamless integrations with our device portfolio, wrapped with intelligence for productive…

Where were you on January 6, 2021? What were you doing as a man walked through the US Capitol building proudly displaying the confederate flag? How did you feel? For me, I had an array of emotions that, quite frankly, I’m still dealing with. As a person of color that has faced acts of racial injustice in the past, I was profoundly disturbed by what I saw. As troubling as the events of that day…

The pandemic has shown that it can deepen inequities — and create opportunities. Women are disproportionately affected by many of the cultural, economic, and technological shifts the pandemic is accelerating. But even as many women navigate their new roles as full-time caregivers, ad hoc teachers, and bread winners, digitization is providing a unique opportunity for women to rise. There is a saying that “when one door closes, another window opens.” At Cisco Networking Academy, we…

Supporting partners with advanced solutions integration and enablement Agility matters. As unpredictability reigns, our customers are continuing to build business resiliency: keeping people connected, businesses secure, and automating processes for the workforce. The bedrock for all of this, of course, is IT and cyber resilience, but the IT solutions customers need are often just as unique as the challenges that need to be overcome. That’s where the Cisco Solutions Readiness Engineering (SRE) Labs come in…

On December 8, FireEye reported that it had been compromised in a sophisticated supply chain attack: more specifically through the SolarWinds Orion IT monitoring and management software. The attackers leveraged business software updates in order to distribute a malware named SUNBURST, and then used this foothold in the organization to contact their Command & Control (C&C) infrastructure, move laterally using different legitimate credentials, and steal data from the network. Fortunately, there is already a hotfix…