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Cisco’s purpose is to Power an Inclusive Future for All, and pursuing our Purpose means we continually look to evolve and expand the positive impact we have on people and the planet. An essential aspect of accelerating our impact is supporting the next generation of visionaries using technology for social good. I am honored to announce the winners of the sixth annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, who will share a prize pool of $1 million….

As organizations expand their digital landscape, expectations for seamless and superior digital experiences continue to intensify. The shift to hybrid work and multicloud environments has also added layers of complexity and pressure, with 86 percent of CIOs struggling to find the necessary IT talent in cyber security, cloud computing, and data management.1 To stay competitive in this era of relentless change, digital agility is essential for organizations that want to succeed in today’s evolving hybrid…

This is the first in a short series of blogs addressing the subjects: safer, smarter, and greener roadways. In this blog, I address “smarter”. We will take a look at the definition and discuss several aspects of smart roadways.   How do you know if your roadway is smart? It is quite simple, prod it with a stick and see what happens! While this is a humorous approach, there is an underlying message. If the…

Aravind Srikumar (Director, Product Management) Deepti Chandra (Sr. Manager, Product Management) Open networking Innovations are largely driven by an industry need to protect network platform investments, maximize supply chain diversification, reduce operating costs, and build a homogenous operational and management framework that can be consistently applied across platforms running standardized software. By virtue of its adoption by cloud scale operators and its most recent inclusion in the Linux Foundation, SONiC has gained tremendous momentum across…

This is the third and final blog in a series on how to get the most from your vacation and hybrid cloud management.   You are looking forward to a day of island hopping. The cruise has been booked, swimming trunks and snorkels packed – you are ready to dive right in. Alas, on the day of the trip the weather gods decided to rain on your parade. Literally. Now what? You can’t afford to…

Introduction to DevDash Demo It all started with Paul Z suggesting that we make some cool and fun demo for Cisco Live 2022. A scavenger hunt perhaps. A few months later, it became a full-blown web application with DevOps deployment interacting with IoT devices. Our first DevDash demo went live at Cisco Live 2022 Vegas. Here’s how the DevDash Demo works. To accept the challenge, users are assigned to IoT race cars. Users take on…

Security tools are only as good as the intelligence and expertise that feeds them. We’re very fortunate to have our security technologies powered by Cisco Talos, one of the largest and most trusted threat intelligence groups in the world. Talos is comprised of highly skilled researchers, analysts, and engineers who provide industry-leading visibility, actionable intelligence, and vulnerability research to protect both our customers and the internet at large. The Talos team serves as a crucial…

One thing that surprises many in IT is how much of a difference a GPU makes for VDI. Lakeside Software’s white paper How GPUs Accelerate Work-From-Home Productivity has some interesting statistics. One key point is that in 2020, the percentage of time using graphical apps reached 65.5% for VDI users. This means that any worker type will benefit from GPU-accelerated VDI, not just users using applications like CAD/CAM.   Decoupled refresh lifecycles One of the…

Overview Cisco Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) is the evolution from traditional campus designs to networks that directly implement the intent of an organization. SD-Access is a software application running on Cisco DNA Center hardware that automates wired and wireless campus networks with LISP as the control plane and VXLAN for encapsulation. Fabric technology, an integral part of SD-Access, provides wired and wireless campus networks with programmable overlays and easy-to-deploy network virtualization, permitting a physical network to…

To stay competitive and meet user demands, organizations are adopting new technologies and architectures—such as software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), software-defined branch (SD-branch), Internet-of-Things (IoT), multi-cloud, and zero-trust access (ZTA)—which has led to network infrastructures becoming increasingly complex and fragmented. To help mitigate this operational complexity, enterprises are embracing the simplicity and efficiency of an integrated architecture. Network integrations enable zero-touch provisioning, centralized management, real-time security analytics, simplified compliance auditing and reporting, and automation of manual workflows…