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Dan Rose, chairman of Coatue Ventures and Coatue Growth, posted a thread on Twitter the other day, 280 characters or less at a time, in which he chronicled how it came about that AWS infrastructure is built on Linux. Rose was at Amazon from 1999 to 2006, where he managed retail divisions and helped incubate the Kindle reader before moving to Facebook. So he was at Amazon in 2000 when the internet bubble popped,and one…

What retailers have been able to accomplish over this last year has been tremendous to experience. In the face of uncertainty across nearly every area of their business, retailers have continued to embrace digital solutions that help them to better serve both their own workforce and their customers in new, safer ways. This year, I had the unique privilege of serving as Cisco’s Industry Champion for the second year in a row for the 2021 Virtual National Retail Federation (NRF), the largest retail event of the year. While this year’s event was spent from the…

The Customer Story blog series highlights how Cisco’s collaboration technology has helped customers solve their business challenges. Learn how Cisco is meeting customers where they are helping them achieve their business goals. Cisco partners with Frink Advanced Services and Ava Robotics, in response to the pandemic, collaborated to build a fully digital sales experience for European real estate developer SIGNA, revolutionizing the industry’s digital capabilities. Frink Cisco Partner Helps Real Estate Developer SIGNA Act Quickly…

Business Friction Slowing Your Company Down? Imagine always being able to answer any question your employees have in real-time. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Because let’s face it, try as you may, having enough subject matter experts in house, at any given time, to address employee “asks” instantly is nearly impossible. This gap includes a lack of ready access to product, process, IT,  legal, HR, or any other experts. The 2020 pandemic resulting in a virtual…

The Create 10x Better Experiences Than in Person Interactions series focuses on enabling and empowering secure inclusive experiences in real-time or anytime, with a focus on seamless collaboration and smart hybrid work experiences Together with Partners Cisco’s promise is that working with Webex will create 10x better experiences than in-person interactions. Cisco has already made huge strides in improving how people can connect and collaborate with a deluge of exciting new capabilities – the most…

If you build Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, it’s a safe bet that you spend a lot of time integrating networking technologies. First you need to find the right technology for your customer’s use case with accurate specifications and end-to-end security. Next is testing, followed by integration, deployment at scale, and support for the solution’s life span. When you get your second customer, who probably has a similar use case but different requirements, the process…

Over Cisco’s holiday shutdown, I took the opportunity to step away from my laptop (not an easy task!) and reflect on 2020 – both the highs and the lows, the successes and the challenges. No doubt it was a monumental year for all of us. And as I reflected, I kept thinking about resiliency. No matter the challenge or situation at hand during 2020 – my team, my partner, and our clients all demonstrated a…

Every time someone picks up a mouse, they make a choice to either strengthen or lessen our security posture. The security team can impact these choices through culture. For a long time, however, it was difficult to know what had to be present to create and manage security culture. The recent Cisco Security Outcomes Study finally shed some light on these factors. Provide a user-friendly experience Culture is built one action at a time. Since…

By Gerri Hinkel, Director of Solutions and Vertical Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company Competitive pressures for retailers to gain and retain shoppers are at an all-time high due to an uncertain economy, demanding customers, and the explosive growth of e-commerce due to the global pandemic. These challenges are a constant and a forcing factor for stores that must innovate even amidst uncertainty.   In this environment, savvy retailers like Tractor Supply Company and H-E-B…

I don’t think anyone will argue that 2020 was a year of change. It was unexpected for many of us, uncomfortable, unnerving, and – yes, unprecedented. But, when I look back on the past 12-months, I realize how grateful I am for all those changes. In a time where it is so easy to be distressed, I know these changes have made me better. Last year, my team and I were focused on creating innovations…