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Not to state the overly obvious, but companies have substantially accelerated their migration to the cloud over the last eighteen months. The pandemic forced them to get more done, faster, and often with less. And they found the cloud was the ultimate enabler. The move to the cloud, even with all of its promise, isn’t without challenges. The cloud makes it easier for users to access their applications and information from anywhere—just click and go….

This is Episode 2 of the “Profit and Win: Future Ready Software Selling” series. Get started by viewing Episode 1: Cisco Partners Make More Money Selling Software. Customers are increasingly buying software delivered as a service, shifting away from transaction-based purchasing. This trend gives customers more predictability, flexibility and control in their software purchases, enabling them to realize value throughout the product lifecycle. Partners who respond by taking a software-led approach to their practices directly…

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. When…

MazeMap has been helping users find their way through university campuses, hospitals, offices, hotels, and event venues for nearly a decade. But in truth, MazeMap is more than a digital wayfinding platform. With help from Cisco technology, MazeMap also delivers space booking, asset tracking, and indoor positioning capabilities. You need just the MazeMap app and a Wi-Fi connection to ensure an efficient, productive future workspace. At building entrances, kiosks powered by Webex by Cisco and…

A Zero Trust Approach With the increasing threat landscape and recent workplace shifts to support remote users, many companies are deploying a Zero Trust security model to mitigate, detect, and respond to cyber risks across their environment. Zero Trust principles help protect against identity and access-based security risks by requiring all users, whether inside or outside the organization’s network, to be authenticated, authorized, and continuously validated for security configuration and posture checks before granted access…

As the global pandemic gradually winds down, carbon emissions are again on the increase and sustainability is moving back to the forefront as a global concern. While data centers have played a pivotal role providing the digital infrastructure for the emerging global economy, digital transformation continues to increase the power required for today’s modern data center.  A Valuates Report projects the global data center market for power increasing from $15 billion in 2020 to $21.5…

Welcome to Part 3 of this series of the web-based network device monitoring tool “johann.” In case you missed it, Part 1 gave you an introduction to johann. In Part2, you get a look behind the scenes of how I implemented the south-bound communication between the application and the network device with the network device API RESTCONF. In this Part 3 we will focus on the web-based application itself: a short introduction to the used…

Juniper Networks continues to grow its enterprise cloud-security family with a new product that promises to protect application workloads in any cloud or on-premises environment. The company rolled out Juniper Cloud Workload Protection package–a  lightweight software agent that the company says controls application execution and monitors application behavior to help businesses spot and fix anomalies. The idea is to provide protection from attackers looking to exploit application vulnerabilities, said Kate Adam, senior director of security…

If you’re going hiking, you need hiking boots—not dress shoes. In the same way, if you’re connecting assets in an industrial environment, you need an industrial ethernet switch, not an enterprise switch. Here’s what’s different about industrial ethernet switches. Tight spaces: round pegs don’t fit in square holes Industrial Ethernet switches bring high-speed connectivity outside traditional office buildings, factories, ports and terminals, railways, ships, energy farms, or mines. They connect industrial Internet of Things (IoT)…

The desire to learn is innate to us, and access to classrooms is the bridge that connects learners with educators. The pandemic has forced an experiment that moved education to digital classrooms, and online learning proved to be the catalyst for creating novel learning models for imparting knowledge and developing new skills. With this evolution of virtual learning, the construct of distance is dissolving, and hybrid experiences have become ubiquitous, necessary, and many times proved…