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In our recent webinar—The Reality of Network as a Service—I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussion with three of our Network as a Service leaders and delve into some of the top questions they are getting from IT leaders about NaaS.  The insights and stories they shared, helped clarify what NaaS is and what it isn’t and highlighted some of the big opportunities (and also some challenges) that lie ahead for organizations that…

Cisco is thrilled to join the European Green Digital Coalition, putting its expertise and technology at the service of the green and digital transformation We are now a few weeks ahead of COP26, a defining moment after this summer ‘wake-up’ call marked by terrible floods and fires across the globe. ‘In times of crisis, Europe comes together’ said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in her 2021 State of the European Union (EU) speech….

While October is designated as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, focusing on keeping your company and customers safe should be a constant priority, especially with the growing number and sophistication of ransomware attacks worldwide. As companies interact more digitally with customers and end-users, their attack surface increases, presenting more opportunities for would-be attackers. We’ve spent a lot of time studying ransomware attacks and instead of viewing them as an amorphous threat, have looked for distinct scenarios that…

Thanks to  a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing new details have emerged about Kyndryl, the IBM spin-off of its managed-infrastructure services unit into a separately traded public company. Kyndryl does exactly what the managed-infrastructure services unit of IBM’s Global Technology Services segment does: manage enterprises IT infrastructure, whether it comes from IBM or another vendor. That’s a challenge for Kyndryl because it has to deal with the trend toward cloud services and against on-premises infrastructure….

MIAMI, Oct. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Step into a time portal with us – set the year for October 15, 1996. Until this day, there wasn’t a true computer dedicated to serving PC gamers that existed on the marketplace. Yet, wildly popular titles like Doom (1993), Civilizations II (1996) and Quake (1996) had rallied together a community of game enthusiasts and passionate techies enthralled in what the early days of PC gaming had to offer. Inside…

Often, engineers from many teams (e.g., Network Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps) can spend hours looking at bandwidth and performance data. A closed-loop corrective action (CLCA) process – looking for details to identify, analyze, and find or correct a problem – often is like looking for a needle in a haystack. New, easy to deploy, reporting tool for Cisco SD-WAN Good information on your data is critical in any enterprise environment. So, I recently recorded…

Incidents of cyber-attacks against IT networks are intensifying globally. The recent spate of ransomware attacks on the American oil pipeline system and the global meat supply chain highlights both the vulnerabilities that exist in our IT infrastructure, as well as the devastating impact these cyber breaches can have even when that breach might seem relatively innocuous.  In the case of the Colonial Pipeline hack, the attack reportedly only reached the front-end business IT systems, not…

It’s October and that means it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month.  It’s a perfect time to have conversations with your colleagues, customers, family, and friends about the importance of cybersecurity not only in business but as part of our everyday lives. At the root of it, our customer’s cybersecurity challenges include people and complexity.  So make sure you check out our Cybersecurity Awareness Month hub, we have a lot of great information coming out throughout the month…

Dublin’s Institute of Education prepares their private-tuition students to matriculate into a number of leading colleges and universities in Ireland and throughout the world through a customized, challenging curriculum that focuses on excellence, achievement, and innovation across 28 choices of subject study. Founded in 1969, the Institute has a 50-year history that prioritizes high standards, hard work, determination, honesty, and enthusiasm for learning with small class sizes and extracurricular opportunities. The result is a well-rounded,…

During a ransomware attack, it is critical to detect and respond early and quickly. By decreasing your mean time to detection in identifying the attacker’s behavior, your security team can quickly investigate and respond timely to prevent a ransomware incident. And, if you can interrupt the attacker’s tools, tactics, or techniques early in the process that will force most attackers to abandon the campaign as they cannot progress further along in the “kill chain”. MITRE…