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Last year, everything changed. We worked from home full time, traveled less, entertained ourselves online, and met family and friends over video. Life was disrupted, but disruption often leads to transformation and evolution. Honeywell and Cisco have been partners for more than a decade. We work together to automate customer operations around the world. Now, we’re collaborating to build innovative new spaces. When the world returns to the factory, the airport, the hotel, the stadium,…

It has been almost a year since the COVID-19 pandemic sent much of the workforce home. Before the pandemic 29% of financial services organizations had at least 60% of their workforce working from home at least once a week. Now, 69% of financial services companies expect to have at least 60% of their workforce working from home at least once a week moving forward (pwc.com). This is a dramatic change, and it is expected to…

Leveraging end-to-end threat protection to prepare for what’s now and what’s next   It’s no secret that the world has changed significantly in the past year, probably forever. Even before 2020, companies were under immense pressure to go digital to keep up with increasing demands for ubiquitous connectivity. Recent events have further accelerated that need, with a dramatic increase in people working from anywhere and using a wide range of devices to access corporate resources,…

Bill Holmes, facilities manager at the Corona, Calif., plant that produces the iconic Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster guitars, remembers all too well walking the factory floor with a crude handheld vibration analyzer and then plugging the device into a computer to get readings on the condition of his equipment. While all of the woodworking was done by hand when Leo Fender founded Fender Musical Instruments Corp. 75 years ago, today the guitar necks and bodies…

Pure Storage, the all-flash storage-array vendor, has expanded its Purity software base and is also expanding its line of storage products. Pure has three storage lines, the FlashArray//X, the FlashBlade, and the FlashArray//C lines, all managed by its Purity software line. The updated Purity software adds Windows-application acceleration for the FlashBlade and FlashArray lines and delivers ransomware protection across file, block and native cloud-based apps, among other features. The new version of Purity also adds…

Despite economic uncertainty heading into 2021 and rapidly changing industry dynamics, the outlook for IT professionals is a positive one. If the COVID-19 pandemic has done one thing for the IT industry, it’s that it has shone a very bright light on the increasingly critical nature of digital IT tools and infrastructures. What we wanted to find out is how this has impacted salaries and earning potential? According to the 2021 IDG Insider Pro and…

NSO Developer Days is making a virtual stop in Singapore. Join us March 3rd. We are heading to the Asia Pacific and this time we are making our stop, virtually, in Singapore.  In times of restricted traveling, we are bringing the Cisco Network Service Orchestrator event to you. Because it is virtual, it is free and accessible to anyone. All you have to do is to register and block out time in your calendar. As…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between February 12 and February 19. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics, indicators of compromise, and discussing how our customers are automatically protected from these threats. As a reminder, the information provided for the following threats in this post is non-exhaustive…

Over the last few years, Agile methodologies, have become the most popular way of leading projects in the IT environment. Quick wins, immediate results, rapid identification of issues and upfront realization of benefits are just some of the values that Agile can bring to the table. Even though Agile techniques are usually associated with software development environment, Agile thinking was never intended to be restricted to IT type of environment. To decode the idea of…

I would like to start out by sharing my deepest thanks and congratulations on a successful quarter. It was a fight, and like early 20th Century author Robert Collier said, “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” Our combined efforts which we repeated day in and day out over the past three months have led to a strong quarter of growth amidst the harsh realities we have faced the…