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If you were a kid like me, when you thought of your future job you pictured yourself ala George Jetson. Leaning back on a chair, pushing a button or two and letting a computer handle the rest of your work. It looked like a sweet setup—Mr. Spacely aside. Although I didn’t know it at the time, this was my first exposure to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML). It looked amazing. While the future might…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, July 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ —  News summary GE selects Dell Technologies APEX to align IT operations with its business strategy Dell Technologies delivers IT as-a-Service with the APEX portfolio, helping GE to consume and scale IT as needed to drive increased automation and savings This service will help GE drive simplification and consistency across its IT infrastructure Full story Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) and GE (NYSE: GE) are extending their relationship to…

Ransomware. Certainly not a new form of cybercrime, but one that has dominated mainstream headlines in recent months. High-profile cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and sectors in the global economy, such as government agencies, a major U.S. fuel pipeline, and one of the world’s largest meat processing plants have put a giant spotlight on ransomware. Ransomware has advanced from being a nuisance to a legitimate national and international security threat. But first, what is ransomware? At…

This post was co-authored by Kristen Taylor (Regional Manager), Melissa Urias (Field Marketing Manager), and Katie Gehart (Renewals Manager). Back in 1999 we formed a friendship that we knew was special while playing high school softball together. Twenty-two years later, Melissa, Katie and I are still teammates because…well, when you love where you work, you tell your friends! That’s right, we’re now on team Cisco working in Sales, Marketing and Customer Experience! While I was…

Despite the inarguable advantages of operating Wi-Fi in the 6GHz frequency range, analysts say that the smart time to buy Wi-Fi 6E is whenever an organization would ordinarily make an upgrade – and not before. Wi-Fi 6E is mostly identical to Wi-Fi 6, but the key difference is the 6E standard’s ability to take advantage of the 6GHz spectrum that was made available for unlicensed use by the U.S. last year. It’s a great deal…

(Enterprise Management Associates has published research called “Post-Pandemic Networking: Enabling the Work-From-Anywhere Enterprise,” a survey of 312 network-infrastructure and operations professionals that finds nearly all of them are budgeting for monitoring tools to better support users working from home. This article by EMA Vice President of Research Networking Shamus McGillicuddy details the major findings.) Network managers will need to update their network monitoring and troubleshooting tools to support the huge increase in end users who…

With the digital transformation of businesses, security is moving to the cloud. This is driving a need for converged services to reduce complexity, improve speed and agility, enable multicloud networking and secure the new SD-WAN-enabled architecture. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is the convergence of networking and security that is transforming the way organizations are delivering these services from the cloud. One of the key functions in SASE is SD-WAN that enables customers to connect…

In my previous two videos and blog posts, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about SASE – but were Afraid to Ask!,” and “SASE vs. SD-WAN,” I described the secure access service edge (SASE) as the combination of advanced WAN edge network functions at the branch integrated with a rich suite of cloud-delivered security services as defined in the Gartner report, “The Future of Network Security is in the Cloud,” [1]. I described how SD-WAN…

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. This…

Over 70 years, EllisDon has developed into a world-leading construction and building services company, with international offices in Canada, the Middle East, and North Africa. EllisDon completes more than $5 billion in projects each year in both the private and public sectors. The company continually redefines construction as they design, finance, construct, equip, operate, and manage everything they build. Established in 1951, EllisDon has built a multi-faceted company from the ground up over 70 years….