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July 2020 was my very first day as a Cisconian! Even amidst a time of unexpected twists and turns and never before experienced scenarios (like starting a job completely remote) – I was greeted by my optimistic managers, mentors, and fellow cohort members. I was ready to start solving cases as a Technical Consulting Engineer! Even though I struggled to diagnose the symptoms for simple cases early on, I was met with guidance and support…

It’s no surprise that the events of 2020 drastically changed the IT landscape, as millions of people began working from home, accessing apps from a multitude of devices on public internet and service providers. As organizations embraced hybrid/multi-cloud technologies, vastly expanding the perimeter of IT, they also faced an unprecedented rise in malicious security threats and a growth in modern applications complexity—all testing the limits of monitoring practices. The quantity¹ and frequency² of hacker attacks,…

Deploying and operating applications in multiple public clouds is critical to many IT leaders, and networking software can help. Migrating applications to cloud infrastructure requires scale, performance, and, importantly, automation. But achieving them all can be challenging due to limited visibility into that infrastructure and the fact that each IaaS platform has proprietary controls for networking and security that can make multicloud operations highly manual and therefore time consuming. As a result, IT teams can…

5G is one part hardware, one part standards — oh so many 5G standards, and one part software. Indeed, it wasn’t for 5G’s open-source technologies, 5G wouldn’t have gotten off the ground. Now, the software and hardware sides of 5G are getting closer together than ever with the cellular core, network software open-source stack Magma. Magma was developed by Facebook to help telecom operators deploy mobile networks quickly and easily. The project, which Facebook open-sourced…

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. Realizing the Value of Cloud When I was a child, I loved visiting my grandparents’ farm. My grandma had an amazing raspberry patch. She would send us out with a hoe…

Over the last decade, Cisco has been one of the leading pioneers of the IoT megatrend, developing a dedicated IoT and digital transformation solutions portfolio for customers and establishing ourselves as one of the leading corporate investors in IoT. Just in the last seven years, the Cisco Investments IoT team has invested in more than two dozen startups and four venture capital funds and executed three acquisitions to bolster Cisco’s IoT offerings for customers. Thanks…

It was the news that shook the technology world: The founder and CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, was to start his transition away from the day-to-day running of the company and hand the reins to Andy Jassy in October 2021. Jassy’s long history at Amazon Amazon Andy Jassy, newly appointed CEO of Amazon An Amazon guy through and through, Jassy is a nontechnical but detailed and highly competitive executive, seldom resisting a jab at his…

Shangxin Du Technical Marketing Engineer Primary Blog Author: Shangxin Du, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco Systems With the growing complexity of the modern network, automation is becoming more important. NETCONF is one of the widely adopted protocols by networking vendors and customers among all programming interfaces. Alongside NETCONF, YANG provides a powerful, standardized modeling language to complement the NETCONF protocol. In practice, interoperability between service orchestrator and network devices provides flexible mix-and-match solutions based on…

As we look to a new calendar year and the second half of Cisco’s fiscal year, I am very encouraged by our partners’ agility and resiliency to face the global challenges that had to be addressed. As a leader in the Global Partner Organization, I too, feel these challenges and the desire to do all that is possible to assist our partners to reach the goals they want to achieve to create great opportunities with…

The author of this blog is Kat McDivitt. Kat is a strategy and planning manager for Cisco DevCX. We’ve all heard about the learning curve – showing the relationship between time spent studying material and proficiency. The Learning Curve Research indicates that there are multiple factors that impact the technology learning curve – or how quickly people can learn new technologies.Some of them include: Motivation – this can come from internal motivation, work related motivation,…