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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….

With 74 million users and more than 2.2 million kilometers of managed network, Enel Group is the largest electricity distribution company in the world. Cisco has been a key partner in its digital transformation, helping to connect solar and wind energy to its network and set the path for a cleaner, more sustainable future. Recently, Enel took its commitment to innovation even further when it started managing thousands of networking devices through the all-new Cisco…

Building a company from the ground up is not for the faint of heart. I know, I’ve been there. As co-founder of Duo, the leading provider of Zero Trust access security, I know what it means to dedicate yourself fully to a vision, to your customers, and to your team. And I know how daunting it can be to find the right investors to join the team – people and organizations that truly understand, and…

The CCNA, which stands for Cisco Certified Network Associate, is Cisco’s foundational certification for networking professionals. The CCNA is a commonly required prerequisite for associate-level networking jobs such as network engineer, network administrator, network support technician or help desk technician. There used to be 10 CCNA concentrations, specific to cloud, collaboration, security, data centers, wireless, and other areas. Then, in February of 2020, Cisco combined all of its foundational networking certifications into one comprehensive CCNA…

OK, let’s say you’re a CIO who’s promoted hybrid cloud computing in your company. Then along came all these news stories that call into question the whole notion of cloud economies. Do you send some covert IT team to block the news from the CFO’s computer, or do you deal with it? Hopefully, the latter. I’ve examined audits of over four-dozen cloud projects, and the good news is that most cloud applications make the business…

This past year we have been working on aligning, enabling, and accelerating partner success through distribution. We have led a successful year; despite the many challenges we have faced as a united society. Our success is more than just profitability, although that is vastly important and a key initiative for the coming fiscal year, it’s also connecting families, enabling small businesses to keep the lights on, and doing our part to help millions get vaccinated….

Over a year has passed since businesses, citizens and governments were forced to adapt to radical change and move to a new reality. Now is the time when we decide what lessons we’ve learned from this unprecedented crisis and determine what type of future we want to build. It’s clear that we are not going back to the way things were. We have it in our power to build a more inclusive, sustainable and digital…

By Atchison Frazer, Category Marketing, Edge Services Platform, Aruba a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. What is the edge? It could be a workplace, a hospital, a large sports stadium, a school, or even a remote worker’s home. In these environments, massive amounts of data are generated by users, devices, and things. Organizations that successfully harness that data – by analyzing and acting on it in real time at the source of the transaction closest to…

“Change is the only constant” is perhaps the most clichéd statement ever. Now imagine in this era of constant change, there’s something that our life revolves around, and yet it hasn’t changed in three decades! Incredible as it may sound, this is true for the basic architecture of the internet. The legacy architecture has multiple layers that have created not only architectural silos but also political silos inside each of the different communication service providers…