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The Meraki team recently announced a new endpoint: Appliance uplinks usage history. This brand new endpoint provides the usage history of your uplinks for a given timespan. Learn more and engage with the team in the Meraki Community post here. Using this endpoint, you now have the ability to do capacity monitoring. This allows you to determine if the cause of a problem is due to bandwidth over utilization and helps you measure the usage…

There are those rare people you meet for the first time that you instantly know will touch your life. Olivia Braga is unequivocally one of those people. Olivia Braga with her students Raised in a very poor, violent neighborhood in Brazil, Olivia was one of one of six children to parents who earned a living by collecting cardboard and sweeping streets. “My parent didn’t have dreams. Their only priority was survival,” she says. “For me…

There are those rare people you meet for the first time that you instantly know will touch your life. Olivia Braga is unequivocally one of those people. Olivia Braga with her students Raised in what she describes as a very poor, violent neighborhood in Brazil, Olivia was one of one of six children to parents who earned a living by collecting cardboard and sweeping streets. “My parents didn’t have dreams. Their only priority was survival,”…

Application is the Business & Level of Digitalization is the Brand In our ever-changing world, where the application represents the business itself and the level of digitization it provides is directly related to the perception of the brand; enterprises must ensure they stand differentiated by providing exceptional user experience – both for their customers as well as their employees alike. When the pandemic hit us, expectations by customers and employees initially were driven by empathy,…

This blog is a joint collaboration between Ravi Balakrishnan (Cisco) and Patrick Campbell (F5)   Sinkholes A lot of people struggle with the best way to demo a product, especially in our world of digital marketing. This is true whether you’re a prospective user or represent your company’s produced product or service.  After the investment in creating an offering which (we hope!!) addressed a need, a gap or provides differentiated uses, if there’s isn’t awareness…

IBM and Cisco have been global strategic partners, working together for the benefit of our mutual customers, for more than 20 years. Together, our objective is to help our customers reduce risk and accelerate their journeys to real-world value in several areas, including hybrid cloud, security, Internet of Things, and collaboration (Figure 1). Figure 1. IBM and Cisco areas of partnership Today, we have over 20,000 mutual customers in 75 countries, representing more than 20…

The Gateway Triangle is a new podcast series featured on The Global Gateway, Cisco’s customer advocacy community with thousands of advocates worldwide! I host the podcast along with my colleague, Katie Meerstein. The podcast features team members from Cisco’s Global Advocacy organization, as well as our valued customer advocates who make The Gateway possible. We love to keep it laid back while we discuss tech, advocacy, and life in general. We’re back with another episode…

This post was written by Jonathan Austin a Cisco Hardware Engineering Intern. I never would have thought that a company could manifest its culture in so many areas of my life, from my career, to my personal life, and to where I hope to see myself one day. Let’s rewind. In my 3rd year at San José State University, I was still trying to figure out what career building was and wondering if Electrical Engineering…

Every organization regardless of size, budget or area of focus should have some form of a security operation center (SOC). When I use the term “Security Operations Center”, many people imagine a dedicated team with expensive tools and a room full of monitors. That image can be a SOC, but it is not always the case. A SOC can just be one person or multiple groups of people spread across the globe. A SOC can…

A vast majority of Linux systems these days are using systemd – a suite of programs aimed at managing and interconnecting different parts of the system. Systemd started replacing the init process back in 2014 and is now the first process that starts when most Linux systems boot. To get a quick peek, you can run a command like this, which verifies that process 1 is indeed systemd. On this system, two additional systemd processes are currently also…