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VMware is in the process of spinning out from Dell Technologies, but the working relationship remains as strong as ever with a bunch of announcements from VMworld. All told, the pair made four significant announcements at the show, the first being that VMware Cloud will be sold on systems acquired through Dell’s Apex pay-as-you-go program. The new Apex offering gives customers the ability to move workloads across multiple cloud environments and scale resources quickly with…

One thing we have learned over the past 18 months is that change is constant. Business happens at an incredibly fast pace, which means our technology must advance equally as fast. So, what does that mean in the IT industry? We must continually educate ourselves to stay ahead of the curve. Cisco Learning and Certifications is committed to upskilling and educating people to stay relevant and ahead of technological advancements. Our day-to-day lives, our businesses,…

One thing we have learned over the past 18 months is that change is constant. Business happens at an incredibly fast pace, which means our technology must advance equally as fast. So, what does that mean in the IT industry? We must continually educate ourselves to stay ahead of the curve. Cisco Learning and Certifications is committed to upskilling and educating people to stay relevant and ahead of technological advancements. Our day-to-day lives, our businesses,…

Two years ago, I experienced an epiphany. In September of 2019, I was sitting in the audience of an all-employee meeting at Cisco where Chuck Robbins, Cisco’s CEO, hosted Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, in a courageous conversation. I was struck by a statement Bryan made. He said, “We have to commit ourselves to getting proximate to the poor, to the excluded, to the marginalized. When you are proximate,…

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are happening ever more often and growing ever bigger. At 2.4 terabits per second (Tbps), the DDoS attack Microsoft just successfully defended European Azure cloud users against could be the biggest one to date. What we know for certain is it’s the biggest DDoS attack on an Azure cloud customer. It was bigger than the previous high, 2020’s Azure 1 Tbps attack, and Microsoft reported it was “higher than any…

One thing we have learned over the past 18 months is that change is constant. Business happens at an incredibly fast pace, which means our technology must advance equally as fast. So, what does that mean in the IT industry? We must continually educate ourselves to stay ahead of the curve. Cisco Learning and Certifications is committed to upskilling and educating people to stay relevant and ahead of technological advancements. Our day-to-day lives, our businesses,…

Digital + Human Intelligence with CX Cloud In today’s connected, fast-paced world, consumers and hybrid workers alike are hard-pressed for time.  The success of a business is dependent on whether they can help deliver their product or service as quickly and securely as possible. Totally satisfied customers contribute 14 times as much revenue as a somewhat dissatisfied customer1, so a superior customer experience (CX) is a must-have in any organization’s business strategy. To stay agile,…

By Austin Hawthorne, NaaS Sales Director, at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. In networking, there will always be a gap between what’s needed and what’s available, whether it’s budget, resources, or time. This not only impacts the ability of a business to be agile, innovative, and competitive, but it also affects its people, specifically the team that’s tasked with ensuring the network meets or exceeds the business’s ever expanding needs. Morale suffers when network…

How will we tame networking complexity?  When I’m speaking with IT leaders, one of the top challenges they are dealing with is rampant complexity in their networks. And it’s no wonder because the demands placed on enterprise networks today are exponentially more than even a decade ago. Indeed, the Internet has never been so critical for business operations. Driven by the massive deployment of SaaS and a hybrid workforce reality, the Internet has become the new enterprise core.   If that weren’t…

Welcome to our blog series on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Each blog in this series will highlight a different Cisco employee who works closely with CSR initiatives across the company. Shawna Darling, Social Corporate Responsibility Programs Development Manager at Cisco Robots plucking trash out of oceans and low-cost bionic limbs; these are just two winning concepts from the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, which announced its latest winners in June. The…