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Cisco continues to expand customer cloud-neutral connectivity options, this time tying its Edge Intelligence software with Amazon Web Services’ IoT cloud service. Specifically, Cisco’s Edge Intelligence software now works with AWS’s IOT Core service to let customers process data from, communicate with and manage thousands of IoT devices and applications linked via industrial operations networks. Cisco Edge Intelligence runs on Cisco’s IoT and industrial networking family and gathers data from connected devices to create logical…

The How to Develop a Winning Transition Strategy for Enterprise Cloud Calling blog series offers a four-part guided tour on how to take your business to a cloud calling and collaboration future that delivers all the benefits you expect from a quality cloud service. Part 4, The Migration Process This is the fourth and final part of this blog series on building and executing a successful strategy for migrating enterprise unified communications (UC) and collaboration to the…

Situation Overview We have all been through many changes in our daily lives due to unprecedented events in the past year. And it doesn’t just stop there. We’ve seen the workforce become more and more distributed and organizations are struggling to provide their users with an exceptional digital experience as they moved from campus to a secure work from home.  Now, as companies prepare for a safe return to the office, what is clear are workers demanding the flexibility to work from…

Do you know when the first thing was connected to the Internet of Things? Some could say it was 1982 and a Coke vending machine at the Carnegie Mellon University. Since then, the IoT has come a long way and is getting adapted more and more, especially with the ongoing IT/OT convergence. But let’s start simple: What does IoT exactly describe? Well, the main purpose of the IoT is to get digital presentations of analog…

Co-Author: Tomoyuki Wakamura, Business Development Manager Divergent responses to the pandemic and a stutter-step start to global vaccine administration have shown just how varied global health systems are; challenging notions about strengths and weaknesses – ­at home and abroad. We’re taking the pulse of healthcare in our region, using perspectives from Australia and Japan, to provide insights into broader telehealth and connectivity themes at play across the continents. The pandemic reshapes healthcare daily, but as we move…

Real-Time Video Meetings and Messaging with Webex  – What’s the difference between a patient, a student and a citizen? – Nothing! That could be the start of a joke, but it’s not. What they do have in common is the need to meet with remote services easily, right from their personal smartphone. Whether we want to tele-visit with a doctor, reach a university staff to prep for campus return or to meet with a governmental…

Data has been called “the new oil.” And like oil, it needs to be extracted, processed, and delivered before it has value. Customers have told me how overwhelming the process is when thousands of devices at the network’s edge transmit over multiple protocols and report the same data differently (e.g., metric v English measurements). And even after you’ve solved those problems, moving all Internet of Things data to the cloud for analytics tends to be…

Dr. Blackburn, CEO of NTC Social justice in education is about making sure there is equity in every classroom – and that type of environment starts with the teacher. New Teacher Center (NTC) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving student learning for systemically underserved students by increasing educator effectiveness. Founded in 1998, NTC works with school districts, state policymakers, and educators across the United States to provide high-quality professional learning, leadership development, and coaching…

What do Jack and the Beanstalk, Gulliver’s Travels, and A Christmas Carol all have in common? Not only are they popular works of fiction (that my three sons really enjoyed), but they all focus on one of the core elements of Cisco’s strategy—transformation to drive growth. Whether the goal is driving growth in top line revenue, margin, or earnings per share (EPS), the key is finding the right catalyst for growth and managing it effectively…

Accelerates 400G adoption for DCI SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced successful interoperability testing between multiple 400G ZR suppliers over Microsoft’s 120km open line system testbed. This multi-vendor testing sets the foundation for a healthy, interoperable, coherent optics ecosystem, providing customers with a multitude of options for building high speed Data Center Interconnect (DCI) networks. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210217005154/en/ Interoperability testing of 400G ZR in…