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Did you know that Cisco’s most profitable partners are winning larger deals by accessing buying centers outside of IT, and they’re doing this by co-selling with Cisco ecosystem partners? One partner’s lesson learned the hard way A friend of mine, who happens to be a reseller, recently told me he finally understands what I mean when I say partners can win larger deals by accessing new buying centers outside of IT. He shared with me…

Follow along with our blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow, where we’ll address healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate.  What would your life be like without wireless technology? The average household has over 9 Wi-Fi devices and that number is growing rapidly. Smart speakers. Smart lights. Security cameras. Temperature controls. Virtual assistants. The phenomenal growth of wireless networks is driven by the design evolution of powerful personal devices. Wireless technology…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Dec. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces that Matt Baker, senior vice president of Infrastructure Solutions Group strategy and planning, Yvonne McGill, corporate controller and chief financial officer of Infrastructure Solutions Group, and Dennis Hoffman, senior vice president of corporate strategy, will each present at the following virtual conferences during the second week of December: UBS Global TMT Conference 2020Monday, December 7, 202011:05 a.m. CT / 12:05 p.m. ETSpeaker: Matt…

Next Pathway has announced the next-generation of its cloud-migration-planning technology, called Crawler360, which helps enterprises shift legacy data warehouses and data lakes to the cloud by telling them exactly how to cost, size, and start the journey. Data warehouses and especially data lakes can get out of control with poorly managed, siloed data and different forms of structured and unstructured data turning the warehouse and lake into a swamp. Crawler360 addresses this problem by scanning…

Schneider Electric is better known in its native Europe than in the U.S., but it’s looking to change that with a $40 million project to upgrade its U.S. manufacturing resources. The company, which specializes in energy management and automation technologies for data centers, shared its plans for U.S. expansion at its Innovation Summit North America 2020, held virtually this year. Schneider also unveiled a new set of ruggedized data-center enclosures targeting the Industrial Internet of…

Are your users overloading your network with their devices? It’s no wonder. With streaming services, video game systems, virtual assistants, wireless speakers, and other devices it’s a struggle to meet demands of your network users.   Add chatty protocols such as mDNS and UPnP among others—and it just adds to the damage it can do to your enterprise network.  The Cisco User Defined Network (UDN) solution is your savior as it helps you meet the growing demand of proliferation of wireless devices. Announced earlier this summer and already getting strong industry buzz—it was a finalist for CRN’s 2020 Innovation of the Year Award—UDN is available now in North America.   How does it…

Salesforce has acquired collaboration software vendor Slack in a deal worth $27.7 billion. The acquisition — details of which leaked last week — will see Slack’s business chat application integrated with Salesforce’s cloud tools, serving as the new interface for its Customer 360 product portfolio. “Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of enterprise software and transform the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world,” said Salesforce chair and CEO Marc Benioff said…

Webex Edge Connect Our workplace has drastically changed this year and the way we collaborate and communicate is now different. We are relying on collaboration technologies more than ever to get work done, whether we are working from home, in-office or on the go. With millions now using video conferencing tools to collaborate, organizations are faced with overwhelmed networks, and the less-than-optimal meeting experiences. We are helping customers address these new challenges and changing work…

Today everyone wants more and more from their network: more control, more visibility, and more security. And that’s exactly what Riedel Networks intends to give its customers, including the Olympic Games and Formula 1 as well as TV broadcasters and global enterprises. With customers migrating data and applications, the communications networks provider decided to expand its product offerings to include a managed SD-WAN (software-defined networking in a wide area network) offering. Riedel Networks services some…

Cisco Blogs / Security / Threat Research / Xanthe – Docker aware miner By Vanja Svajcer and Adam Pridgen, Cisco Incident Command Attackers are constantly reinventing ways of monetizing their tools. Cisco Talos recently discovered an interesting campaign affecting Linux systems employing a multi-modular botnet with several ways to spread and a payload focused on providing financial benefits for the attacker by mining Monero online currency. The actor employs various methods to spread across the…