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Nine people, three dogs, and a parrot all living in front of a gas fireplace. No safe water. No electricity. No heat. It’s the winter of 2021, in Texas, and what we endured was more intense than any forecast could have predicted. How did we manage? For me, Cisco’s support and our Emergency Time Off benefit was a large help in seeing me through. No one plans for an emergency Yes, you can prepare for…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Aug. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) will conduct a conference call Thursday, August 26, 2021, at 4:30 p.m. CDT to discuss its fiscal 2022 second quarter financial results. The conference will be available to the public as a live, audio-only webcast on Dell Technologies’ website at investors.delltechnologies.com; an archived version will be available at the same location. The company will issue the results via a press release with accompanying financial statements…

The business value of the network has never been higher, and this is driven by digital transformation as borne out businesses accelerating their digital initiatives by as much as seven years due to the pandemic. This is had a profound impact on the enterprise network as most of the enabling technologies such as cloud, mobility and IoT are network centric. This intense focus on digital transformation has exposed many flaws with legacy networks. They are…

(Image: Shutterstock) We rarely think about keeping time. As Chicago sang in the 60s, “Does anyone really know what time it is? Does anyone really care?” But, technically, we care a lot.  Our technology can’t work worth a darn if the Network Time Protocol (NTP) isn’t keeping our servers and PCs coordinated with one another. Without it, backups would fail, financial transactions would go awry, and many fundamental network services wouldn’t work. To help with these…

There is always excitement in the air throughout the Security community at this time of year; usually we excitedly approach “Hacker Summer Camp.” This year, like last, was a little different from what we have become used to over the last 24 years. Cisco Security was honored to be a sponsor of the 24th Black Hat USA 2021 Conference – the internationally recognized cybersecurity event series providing the security community with the latest cutting-edge research,…

Cyber attacks are spreading beyond offices and data centers to industrial networks. Headlines like the attack on a Florida water treatment plant and Colonial Pipeline have captured the attention of executives and company boards concerned about uptime and safety. This risk applies across critical infrastructure operators and small industrial sites alike. Organizations of all sizes are now putting together tiger teams to implement the right IoT/OT cybersecurity measures. Ready, set… now what? Say you’re tasked…

Where should we begin? Once upon a time, not so long ago, networking teams got by with basic analytics using SNMP events, syslogs, custom scripts, utilization reports, and simple monitoring tools. How things have changed!! Where are we headed? 60% of transactions either originate or terminate outside of the private enterprise network.1 The Internet has become the new network core. 40% of enterprise workloads will be on public cloud by 2023.2 Applications and services are…

Sjvn I recently moved and along the way my faithful 2016 Sony XBR-75X850D, as such things do, suffered a fatal screen crack. It was time for something bigger and better. I’d long used smaller LG TVs, but since my new place also included a home theater it was time to think big. So, after much research, I got LG’s newest 77″ 4K TV: the 2021 LG OLED77C 3,299.99TV. In a word, it’s impressive. ZDNet Recommends…

Now that the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021 winners have been officially announced, we are excited for you to learn more about each winning team and the story behind each innovation. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is an annual competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage tech entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems. Now in its fifth year, the competition awarded its largest prize pool ever, $1 million USD, to 20 winning teams from around the world. GIC…

Register for the Network Insider Series webinar on August 19 to learn how to optimize application performance and automate site-to-site and site-to-Google Cloud connectivity.  Did you know there’s a new way to extend Cisco SD-WAN fabric to workloads in Google Cloud and automate site-to-site connectivity over Google Cloud’s highly reliable, global cloud infrastructure? It’s called Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloud and it was made available this March. Read the blog by Jean-Luc Valente, Cisco’s Vice…