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If you’ve been a Cisco Partner for any length of time, you’ve probably heard about the Cisco Not For Resale Incentive (NFR). But for those of you who haven’t heard, NFR is designed to offer highly discounted products to our Partners for their office use or for building out demo labs. Over the last year, we’ve been taking a closer look at NFR and the impact it’s had on our Partners. Quarter after quarter we…

The pace of digital transformation has accelerated[1]. In the past year and a half, business models have changed, and there is a need for enterprises to quickly improve the time taken to launch new products or services. The economic uncertainty has forced enterprises to reduce their overall spending and focus more on improving their operational efficiencies. As the pandemic has changed the way the world does business, organizations have been quick to pivot to digital…

As I write this, 31 vessels are anchored and waiting for berths at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. It’s a sign of increasing congestion around the world, caused by a surge in imports, worker shortages, and shutdowns at Chinese ports due to COVID-19. Congestion plus a 900% increase in cyberattacks on maritime systems add up to an urgent problem for the world’s supply chains. There is good news, however. Innovative port authorities and…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Sept. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — News summary Study shows organizations are managing more than 10 times the amount of data than they did five years ago Eighty-two percent of IT decision makers are concerned their existing data protection solutions won’t meet all future business challenges Sixty-two percent fear their existing data protection measures may not be sufficient to cope with cyber threats, while 74% agree they have increased exposure to data loss…

“I want you to consider taking on a new role.” Years ago, these were the words I heard from my leader. Immediately, my thoughts went into if I was doing a good job (I was), if the team was functioning well (we were), or if there were any issues I needed to work on (there weren’t). So, then – why a new role? This is something Cisco does and does well. We’re not just encouraged…

Today, Cisco made a new commitment to reach net zero across all Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions by 2040 (which includes our product use, operations, and supply chain) with an interim goal to reach net zero across all global Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2025. As one of Cisco’s early employees, I have seen our commitment to environmental sustainability grow and strengthen over the years. I remember publishing our first annual Corporate…

Ivan Duggan, Managing Director, Global Sales, SD-WAN & Routing, Cisco and Royce Thomas, Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Global Account Management, Equinix Cisco’s strategy for enterprise networks is to help customers connect, secure, and automate to accelerate their digital agility in a cloud-first world. Equinix offers a unique digitization platform via 227+ colocation data centers in 63 markets across 26 countries enabling enterprises to transform the way connect their business to what matters most. During Cisco Live 2021, Raj Gulani, Senior Director of Cisco…

While the pandemic continues to challenge us personally and professionally, it has created an opportunity for innovative solutions and creative connection. Through it all, our customers led the way in pivoting and transforming their businesses to meet the changing times. Today we celebrate those accomplishments by highlighting three customers who have risen above to receive the 2021 Cisco CX Customer Hero Award. The Award celebrates our CX customers –the changemakers, innovators, and discoverers—who have achieved…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Sept. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces that Dell Technologies’ chief financial officer, Tom Sweet, will present at Citi’s 2021 Global Technology Conference in a virtual fireside chat on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 11:10 a.m. CT / 12:10 p.m. ET. A live webcast and a replay of the webcast will be available on Dell Technologies’ Investor Relations page at investors.delltechnologies.com. About Dell Technologies Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) helps organizations and…

With some research forecasting that more than 75 million IoT devices will be deployed globally by 2025, enterprise IT administrators have a huge challenge on their hands: How to manage network access policies between so many users, devices, and networks with diverse access privileges. To date, mostly manual point solutions have been used to broadly enforce network access policies. They’re expensive, time-consuming, and inefficient. The clock is ticking. Devices are proliferating. Cybercrime cost the world…