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IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Instana, an application performance monitoring firm. Financial details were not disclosed. Once the acquisition closes, Instana’s technology will be incorporated into IBM’s hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence portfolios – two markets IBM leadership has targeted for high growth in the coming years. To that end, IBM recently said it would spin off the $19 billion Managed Infrastructure Services unit of its Global Technology Services division to help…

Cisco Recognized by Gartner as a Leader for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) We are proud to be named a leader for a repeat year in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS). This is especially significant in this transformative year: When full, integrated collaboration – what UCaaS is all about – becomes vital to the effectiveness and survivability of businesses worldwide. First, I’d like to touch on two…

In this installment of our #2021NetworkingTrends blog series, we discuss Trend #1 – extending security to a remote workforce. Some events are so disruptive that we’re forced to re-think everything.  Often, this is a blessing in disguise.  All kinds of innovation springs out of questions like “is there a better way to do this?” and “should we even be doing this at all?” For instance, many enterprises thought there was absolutely no way their entire…

“If you want to achieve success in whatever you set out to do, you have to start as though you are hand-in-hand with all of creation.” – Keetoowah Cherokee Saying  From an early age, these words were instilled upon me by my dad as enrolled members of the Cherokee tribe – one of over 560 federally recognized tribes – with roots from Indian country in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. There are seven Cherokee clans and I’m from…

Cambridge Consultants is working to deliver the largest airborne communications antenna available commercially. The technology consultancy and product development firm, which part of Capgemini, has built a functioning, scaled-down version of a wireless antenna designed to beam connectivity from the sky. The prototype, announced this month, is part of a four-year project with UK-based start-up Stratospheric Platforms Limited (SPL). SPL is developing a High-Altitude Platform (HAP) and communication system that’s designed to deliver affordable, fast…

A German startup wants to use IoT sensors and a wireless-mesh network to detect forest fires within 10 minutes to an hour of when they start as opposed to the hours or even days it can take using current methods based on thermal imaging, satellite surveillance and human smoke spotters. Dryad Networks is developing sensors to detect gases associated with forest fires and engineering how to network them using LoRaWAN and other wireless technologies so…

As remote work becomes the new normal for many enterprises, collaboration is being tested like never before. And few feel the pressure more than enterprise IT leaders. In addition to delivering performance and reliability, they need to envision how their organizations can use technology to achieve results remotely. They’re searching for an ideal vision of a modern meeting and collaboration experience. What does that look like? A hybrid cloud collaboration platform can provide an attractive…

Your IT is the foundation of everything you create. Whether you’re exploring new ways of working, engaging customers, or driving growth, having a resilient foundation is key to unlocking opportunities to capture new value. Invest in resiliency, an adaptive workforce, and ongoing transformation to stay agile and grow your business. Prioritize IT resiliency for growth and agility In today’s environment, market volatility, business and IT disruptions, evolving customer demands, and workforce changes have all become…

Cisco Blogs / Security / Threat Research / Nibiru ransomware variant decryptor Nikhil Hegde developed this tool. Weak encryption The Nibiru ransomware is a .NET-based malware family. It traverses directories in the local disks, encrypts files with Rijndael-256 and gives them a .Nibiru extension. Rijndael-256 is a secure encryption algorithm. However, Nibiru uses a hard-coded string “Nibiru” to compute the 32-byte key and 16-byte IV values. The decryptor program leverages this weakness to decrypt files…

I love it when data surprises me. In cybersecurity, we’re good at researching how things can go wrong, but it’s harder to figure out when things are going right. Most of our prescriptive advice starts to sound obvious after all these years: least privilege. Patch all the things. Segmentation. Redundancy. Resilience. And always, always, encryption. But which practices actually lead to a successful security program? This year we decided to take a new strategy, with…