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The following is based on an excerpt from the 2021 Cisco Purpose Report, published on December 13, 2021. After nearly five years in the U.S. Army, Averi Hall was concerned about the transition back to civilian life. “I’ve known a lot of veterans who struggle with their career when they get out,” she says. Hall found the perfect stepping-stone, however, in the Department of Defense SkillBridge program, through which service members spend the last six months…

Delivers plug and play simplicity and workflows for commercial workspaces SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET), a leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking, today announced the next phase of Arista’s cognitive campus vision with the introduction of the CUE™ (Cognitive Unified Edge). CUE enables commercial customers to accelerate new services and technology innovations by consolidating multiple security and networking functions into an “edge as a service” cloud-managed solution. Arista’s turnkey CUE portfolio for…

Delivers plug and play simplicity and workflows for commercial workspaces SANTA CLARA, Calif.,— March 29, 2022 — Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET), a leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking, today announced the next phase of Arista’s cognitive campus vision with the introduction of Arista CUE™ (Cognitive Unified Edge). CUE enables commercial customers to accelerate new services and technology innovations by consolidating multiple security and networking functions into an “edge as a service” cloud-managed solution. With CUE, commercial customers…

Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference. As I walked the show floor, spoke with our customers and partners and listened to the powerful words of Cisco’s Senior Vice President and Global Innovation Officer, Guy Diedrich, during his mainstage presentation, one topic in particular resonated with me. Sustainability.   As business leaders and technologists, we have a moral obligation to connect everyone, be ethical stewards…

Milliseconds Do Matter Since passenger and pedestrian safety is at risk, connected vehicle safety demands application response times measured in milliseconds, not seconds. For connected vehicles to be ‘connected,’ a massive amount of data must be transferred. Connected vehicles need to communicate with the roads traffic lights, with various divergent applications, with safety being the top priority. With the safety applications sending information to vehicles many times per second, the computing data required new ways…

It’s evident that digital investments made prior to 2020 helped many financial institutions respond quickly to a rapidly changing operational environment. The “shift to digital”, necessitated by these changes, was largely confirmation of what institutions already understood about the future of customer engagement. Instead, the most useful insight is likely the remarkable agility demonstrated by the industry and how it changed executives’ perspectives of prior and future transformation strategies. The demonstration of speed has set…

In November 2021, Cisco’s Global Advocacy team hosted the first ever Cisco Global Advocate Awards event. We celebrated the top-performing customer and partner marketing advocates in Cisco’s advocacy communities across ten categories—putting the spotlight on the amazing work they continue to do for Cisco. We’re excited to bring you a special Gateway Triangle podcast series, where we get to know our Global Advocate Award winners and hear their stories! Next up in our Triangle Advocate…

The btrfsck command is a filesystem-check command like fsck, but it works with the btrfs file system. First a little bit about btrfs. As the name implies, btrfs uses a B-tree data structure that is self-balancing and maintains sorted data, facilitating searches, sequential access, insertions, and deletions. It is also often referred to as the “better file system”. Oracle developed it and first used it about 15 years ago. By November 2013, it was declared adequately…

The DevNet Expert certification is here, earning its place among Cisco’s Expert-level certification tier with an identity all its own. As we look forward to the first day of lab testing on May 2, 2022, the anticipation and curiosity around the never-before-seen exam has left many wondering what makes this exam so unique compared to other Cisco certification exams – even at the Expert level. A practical exam unlike any other It’s the perfect time…

Episode 21 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. Podcast episodes are now being added to the Cisco Optics playlist on YouTube! Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 21 Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 21. How to Make Coherent Optics Small and Pluggable, with Tom Williams. Part 2 of 5. Coherent optics have been the go-to solution for high-end optical transport systems for years. Eventually these optics were modularized and with recent…