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“Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together.” The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games motto highlighted an immense feeling of solidarity across the world. Isolated for so long during the pandemic, these Games signified coming together and forging forward, not just as individuals, but as teams. And Cisco was there for it. Cisco is renowned for supporting large scale sporting events and this year was the official Network Equipment Partner for Tokyo 2020. While Cisco IT has…

Microsoft’s recent announcement of its upcoming Azure Gateway Load Balancer is great news for organizations requiring rapidly scalable firewalls with high availability in public cloud. Cisco has partnered with Microsoft and will be supporting Cisco Secure Firewall with Azure Gateway Load Balancer. The Gateway Load Balancer makes rapid scaling of security services with highly available protection simpler than ever. It’s part of how Cisco is helping to harmonize security across your public and hybrid cloud…

Growing up, I always wanted to be just like my dad. He was everything a dad should be and more. He inspired me every day and continually pushed me to be my best self and because of this, I wanted to do exactly what he did. This is where my passion for all things IT (and more specifically networking) came into my life. My Dad, Gavin Wright, achieved his CCIE in 1999, number 4465. He…

The world is changing and the structure of connectivity between users, businesses, and devices has entered a new dimension.  The rate of transformation has accelerated, including major advances in collaboration and access to applications and data from anywhere.  However, remote connectivity has enlarged the attack surface for cyber criminals and troubleshooting outside your corporate border is challenging. Our customers are looking for solutions for hybrid work, providing agility for users to securely connect from work,…

When we look at our strategic initiatives across Cisco, nothing says “customer-driven,” like what we are doing to support each customer’s unique cloud strategy. Cloud isn’t something we are pushing; it is from listening to customers and their business needs. But this journey, which has been accelerated in response to the global pandemic, is unique for each organization. Many customers want to take a hybrid approach, across many clouds. Teams require flexibility and choice. IT…

In this age of sequels, it’s important to remember that endings are no longer sad. Today Cisco announces the end-of-life for the following Aironet 802.11ac Wave 2 (Wi-Fi 5) Access Points: 1815i, 1815m, 1815t, 1815w, 1830, 1840, 1850, 2800, 3800, 4800, 1540 and Mobility Express. But this isn’t a bad thing. We understand that the Aironet brand has been around for a long time and it might be tough to see it go, but cheer…

Cross-tier Visibility and Troubleshooting On A Single Pane of Glass Today marks an important milestone in Cisco’s Cloud Networking offerings to our customers with the unveiling of new solution for Cisco Nexus Dashboard with our strategic ecosystem partner: Splunk®. We are very excited to announce the availability of “Cisco Cloud Network Insights” App and Add-on for Splunk Enterprise. This announcement comes on the heels of Cisco’s unveiling of the Nexus Dashboard 2.1, a single pane of…

This blog post is a collaboration between David Keith, Cisco; Jayakrishna Mada, Senior Product Manager, ACI and Eugene Vakulenko, Senior Product Manager, Cisco Cloud ACI David Keith, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Delivering Capabilities Companies have sped up their digital transformation efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, with an increased drive for machine learning (ML) powered business operations and the growth of cloud computing accelerating. In addition, with the growth of SDN (Software…

In the United States, there are over 600 Native American and Alaskan Native tribes, representing approximately 1.5 to 2 percent of the population. Lack of critical mass often leads to underrepresentation of Native American viewpoints and representation in racial disparity assessments–particularly in the tech industry. Native Americans make up less than .005 percent of the tech workforce in United States. Environmental, education, and a tech-monoculture (which refers to a generic corporate culture) approach to recruitment…

If you’ve ever left your job for a new one, you probably know the ranges of emotions – unhappy, ready to leave, eager to start somewhere new. I’ve been there. I started my very first job in a state I had never visited. Then, in my second job, I moved to another new state all by myself. Each time had me experience all those feelings, and then, finally, I moved back home to work at…