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Today, February 24, 2021 is the first anniversary of the launch of the Cisco DevNet certifications. Today, I am incredibly proud and honored to celebrate you – the DevNet community, the DevNet 500, and the DevNet Class of 2020. Over 8,000 of you have become part of the DevNet Class of 2020! You have earned over 10,500 DevNet certifications, ranging from DevNet Associate to DevNet Professional and DevNet Specialist! Your software and automation skills are…

Grace Wong, Founder of Liven This blog post comes from Grace Wong, the Founder of Liven, Australia’s biggest loyalty-based payment network and the first platform to “gamify” payments in the offline world. LivenPay won Sir Richard Branson’s Extreme Tech Challenge for Digital Payments and Blockchain in 2019. Grace presented at Cisco’s Women Rock-IT event on February 18. Click here to watch the recording on demand. My parents grew up in an environment where opportunity simply…

As Cisco partners, you’ve let us know that deal registration is your most valued profitability program. However, you’ve also made it clear that it has too many sub-programs and rules to remember! We understand. When you drive profitability behaviors, like hunting or teaming, you should be able to receive the best available discounts without the hassle and complexity of figuring out the incentive selection process. In response, I have good news: We have heard your…

Connecting all your devices to a shared network environment such as dorm rooms, classrooms, multi-dwelling building units, etc. may not be desirable as there are too many users/devices on the shared network and onboarding of devices is not secure. In addition, there is limited user control; that is, there is no easy way for the users to deterministically discover and limit access to only the devices that belong to them. You can see all users’…

I have not been inside an office building for 12 months. A sentence I did not imagine writing anytime soon. Last February, everything changed. And when we pause to reflect, we have to consider that, of the many dramatic impacts to our lives, to society, and the world, in the realm of the professional, one of the most impactful changes has been the fact that many of us no longer commute to an office to…

You will have more connected devices than ever on your network in 2021, especially if you’re in healthcare, retail, or logistics, industries that are among the early adopters of the Internet of Things (IoT). You’ll have devices on your network edge, in your headquarters, on vehicles, in machinery, in your stores, in employees’ homes, and on public property. And there’s a good chance that some or many of these IoT devices have built-in security vulnerabilities…

Linux certification is increasingly significant for tech workers as the public cloud and software-defined networking become ever more important. A Linux cert can set IT professionals apart from the herd and potentially put a lot more money in their bank accounts. Once these certifications were a gauge of reliability, according to CompTIA chief tech evangelist James Stanger. “Twenty years ago, Linux tended to attract people who were a little edgier,” he said. “So certification was…

Given the year we have all had and the changes in working patterns we have had to adopt, IT professionals could be forgiven for being unsettled in their work. For many though, 2020 has been a year of growth and acceleration. As we have seen in our analysis of compensation and job opportunities, it’s a really good time to work in tech. The rapid adoption of cloud, the increase in application development, the focus on…

At Cisco, we are committed to our conscious culture, built on the importance of everyone being aware or ‘conscious’ of the environment in which they work. We all have a right to feel safe at work and we should all be able to thrive when we apply ourselves; the workplace needs to be a meritocracy. I believe we all have an obligation to make our environment feel safe and inclusive. Take difference to heart is…

When we think about 5G, we think about the last mile: The actual 5G wireless technologies between our devices and the internet. But, there’s another equally important part: The edge and cloud computing that connects the 5G access points with the rest of the internet. Now, Google and Intel have joined forces to improve your edge software services once you’re hooked up with the internet. As Shailesh Shukla, Google Cloud VP and Networking general manager,…