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As we ride the biggest digital wave in history, the internet has become fundamental to how society maintains livelihoods, conducts business, and stays connected. With it, come a constant evolution of risk. Phishing, service disruptions, ransomware, and other attacks hijack data, destroy sources of income, steal identities and invade privacy, derail nations, and change the course of history. Effectively managing the revolving door of risks calls for a new era of trust. More than just…

Protecting privacy continues to be a critical issue for individuals, organizations, and governments around the world. Eighteen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, our health information and vaccination status are needed more than ever to understand the virus, control the spread, and enable safer environments for work, learning, recreation, and other activities. Nonetheless, people want privacy protections to be maintained, and they expect organizations and governments to keep their data safe and used only for pandemic…

I recently had the opportunity to explain my job, leadership, and careers to 5th and 6th grade girls exploring science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through an Explore 2021 camp. If you really want to get crystal clear on your messaging, just sign up to present on the topic to brilliant young women; that will do the trick! One of my goals was to leave these young women understanding that STEM isn’t all about being…

Gigabyte Technology isn’t the first name that comes to mind in data-center hardware. It’s better known as a consumer player, but it is a significant server player none the less, making server motherboards on par with other top names like Supermicro. Now the company has teamed with CoolIT Systems to provide two high-density servers equipped with liquid-cooling technology. The servers, H262-ZL0 and H262-ZL2, are equipped with direct liquid cooling for CPUs designed to support the…

How should an enterprise pick products to build its network? Do they look for the best of each product category, knowing this will increase both integration issues and finger-pointing? Do they select the best vendor overall, knowing that this will invite vendor lock-in and compromises in each product category? This issue is as old as networking, and we’ve still not resolved it. How do enterprises decide when to add a vendor in hopes of getting…

Should you consider migrating from a Brocade SAN to a Cisco MDS SAN? The short answer is Yes, as there is no disruption in SAN operations or downtime, when you choose to migrate to Cisco MDS directors and switches as described below. And, you will always have dual fabric, dual host path redundancy, and you can work on any single fabric at any time. Additionally, you simplify your storage network implementation, operations, and administration with…

What will you gain at DevNet Create? Before I dive in to telling you about the Secure Code Warrior tournament at Cisco DevNet Create, let me first say a few things about Cisco DevNet Create – Cisco’s annual, global, free, and (this year) virtual developer conference. DevNet Create (which this year happens to coincide with Cybersecurity Awareness Month) provides a great opportunity to learn from others in the community on a wide range of topics…

By Dolan Sullivan, Vice President of Federal at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. Federal and non-governmental IT teams have long been aware of the risk of radio frequency (RF) network blindness. Afterall, unauthorized communications in a secure zone can reveal personnel movements and create a conduit for data exfiltration, such as how a fitness tracker can inadvertently revealed the physical movements of military personnel.  The need for RF situational awareness has intensified as the use of…

IBM has partnered with Atos, the closest thing it has to an equal in Europe, to help boost the digital transformation and cloud migration initiatives for banks and insurance companies in a project called Atos Cloud Centre of Excellence. Finance is one of the most regulated industries and, therefore, one of the most reluctant to move to the cloud. The center’s goal is to increase security and regulatory compliance for financial services companies around the…

Occasionally that small idea to help a certain few, gains enough momentum where it can help many more than its original scope of impact. Though Cisco Talent Bridge was created as an employment program for Cisco Networking Academy back in 2017, in the past year, it has evolved so that the offerings are more easily available to audiences outside of our previous core focus.   The biggest change was shifting of our flagship resource, the Talent Bridge Matching Engine (TBME) – a job matching tool, under a different organization at Cisco. The shift allowed a new synergy to…