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In the US alone, an estimated 20,160 people died in car crashes in the first half of 2021, up a staggering 18.4% over 2020 – prompting the launch of a National Roadway Safety Strategy, a joint public and private sector initiative to save lives on the road. In my home country of Italy, the government and local authorities are equally committed to improving road safety. This has yielded results but in an EU country comparison,…

For the first time since 2018, the biggest-selling semiconductor vendor in the world was not Intel, which lost the top spot to Samsung in 2021, per a report released today by Gartner Research. Global semiconductor revenue jumped 26.3% during the year, rising to $595 billion, according to the report. Samsung’s market share, meanwhile, rose to 12.3%, buoyed by 28% year-on-year growth. The South Korean electronics giant took in nearly $73.2 billion in total revenue in…

As enterprise networks become more complex, the demands and challenges to secure them are increasing. Increased mobility, wireless networks, and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives have broadened the attack surface. Access security must be capable of scaling to accommodate the increased access demands of myriad devices. Session Aware Networking (SANet) is a framework and set of features that provide authentication, access control, and user specific policies. The SANet re-architecture has evolved from being a…

Material shortages across the semiconductor industry, as well as logistics challenges, continue to impact supply chains globally, slowing output across multiple industries from – automotive to consumer electronics, and beyond. This has resulted in extended lead-times across almost all products, and extended delivery dates. Unfortunately, we are also seeing a spike in both gray market and counterfeit activity. Now, more than ever, it is important to stay vigilant and protect your business by purchasing Cisco…

Key US government security organizations are warning that industrial control system (ICS)/supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)-based networks are being threatened by bad actors armed with custom software tools. The Department of Energy (DOE), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint warning that certain advanced persistent threat (APT) actors have shown the ability to gain full system access to compromised ICS/SCADA systems. [ Get regularly…

The Transformational Tech series highlights Cisco’s nonprofit grant recipients that use technology to help transform the lives of individuals and communities. When a person lives in a community that doesn’t have access to a power grid, it means no electricity. When you lack access to sustainable and affordable energy services and products, it is called energy poverty. People experiencing energy poverty are forced to use higher-cost fuels, like running diesel fuel through a generator and using…

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides data replication, hosting, and recovery services from the cloud in the event of a disaster, power outage, ransomware attack, or other business interruption. DRaaS backs up data, applications, and IT infrastructure to the cloud, with providers typically having geographically dispersed data center footprints. In the event of a disaster, the business will failover to the DRaaS provider’s data center in a different region.  As opposed to traditional disaster…

Welcome to the Launchpad, our new blog series! This is your one-stop shop for everything you need to get started with a certain technology or certification path. It’s also the perfect place to be if you just want to learn something cool. As I use my time to pick up a new skill or study for a certification, I realized that I don’t always know where to start. I always feel conflicted because I have…

Key US government security organizations are warning industrial control system (ICS)/supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)-basednetworks are being threatened by bad actors armed with custom software tools. The Department of Energy (DOE), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint warning that certain advanced persistent threat (APT) actors have shown the ability to gain full system access to compromised ICS/SCADA systems. The alert did…

Fujitsu announced it will launch a cloud service based on the same hardware used in the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku. The first step in what it calls Fujitsu Computing-as-a-Service (CaaS) will be Fujitsu Cloud Service HPC, which offers the high-performance computing power of the Fujitsu Supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX1000, which is based on the A64FX 64-bit Arm processor Fujitsu developed specifically for Fugaku. The A64FX is a 48-core custom Arm processor designed for HPC that does…