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A lot can happen when you’re working hard and having fun, and I can attest to that being true at Cisco. In just four years’ time, my career as a Cisco network engineer has skyrocketed! Not only have I received two promotions, but I was selected twice to speak at Cisco Live, awarded Restricted Stock Units (RSU) two times, selected as a sponsee for the Multiplier Effect Sponsorship program and as a Career Guide, and…

In October 1997, I was nearly 26, and has just given birth to my first baby when I was offered a role at Cisco. My sister-in-law was an Executive Administrator at Cisco, supporting the CIO at the time, when she called to ask if I was going to accept. I didn’t have a clue about Cisco or high tech – it was truly a sink or swim moment – and I’m so glad to say…

Connectivity for all is essential. Cisco is helping bring this to life by empowering an inclusive future for all. Connecting the unconnected remains a challenge to inequality. In the United States today, 60 million Americans live in rural areas – nearly 20% without an adequate broadband network. It’s an inequality that presents a barrier to opportunities. Our access to school, work, healthcare, and even social connections have hinged on our ability to be online dependably….

Western Digital has announced a new disk drive architecture that combines flash memory with high-density hard-disk drives plus a small CPU to manage everything. If this sounds familiar, it is. Several years ago there was an effort by WD and other hard-disk drive (HDD) makers to build hybrid hard drives, with small flash drives acting as a cache for the hard disk, but those efforts failed, said Ravi Pendekanti, senior vice president of HDD product…

Self-driving cars must possess the ability to recognize road conditions, make decisions and take appropriate action, all in real time. This requires on-board artificial intelligence (AI) that ensures vehicles are able to “learn,” along with super-fast processing power. Tesla unveiled a custom AI chip back in 2019 and soon began manufacturing cars with it. Now Tesla has unveiled a second internally designed semiconductor to power the company’s Dojo supercomputer. The D1, according to Tesla, features…

The Linux set command allows you to change the value of shell options or to display the names and values of shell variables. Rarely used, it is a bash builtin, but is quite a bit more complicated than most builtins. If you use the command without any arguments, you will get a list of all the settings—the names and values of all shell variables and functions. Watch out though! You’ll end up with a torrent…

The traditional data center is built on a three-tier infrastructure with discreet blocks of compute, storage and network resources allocated to support specific applications. In a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), the three tiers are combined into a single building block called a node. Multiple nodes can be clustered together to form a pool of resources that can be managed through a software layer. Instead of a server with 50 cores, 128GB RAM and 1TB of storage, you can have 500 cores with 1.2TB RAM and 10TB of storage across 10 nodes, presented as a pool of resources to mix…

Applications and cloud connectivity are the lifeblood of any enterprise today. The ability to connect users to applications reliably and securely across the remote workforce, branches, data centers, and multicloud has become a critical success factor for any organization. In a time where employees are working from home or in a hybrid work environment, reliable and secure connectivity to SaaS applications, such as Microsoft 365, is ever more important. Applications experience poses special challenges for network…

Latin America’s tech industry is booming. In recent years, major investments in tech infrastructure and an explosion of startup activity have sent the demand for tech talent skyrocketing. For organizations, this means entering a competitive hunt for skilled talent in roles like software developers, UX designers, programmers, and more. Mariana Costa Checa, CEO and Co-Founder of Laboratoria An even bigger challenge? Finding diverse talent. Traditionally, women in Latin America have been under-represented in the tech…

This post was authored by Fareed Balogun a recent Customer Experience  intern. With this being my final summer before my senior year at Howard University, the pressure felt enormous for me to maximize all the learning opportunities before I plunge into the world as a professional in the tech industry. The road getting here hasn’t always been easy and I was thinking of every worst-case scenario that could occur during my Cisco Internship: Would I…