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If you have had the opportunity to read my recent blog series on The Future of Work, you know that Cisco is all in on enabling organizations of all sizes and industries to prepare for a hybrid work model. We recognize that the future of work will embrace a workforce that can connect fluidly from anywhere at any time, with access to the applications and services they need to be successful while making their jobs…

Welcome to a new year dawning in the age of the pandemic, which promises to be filled with new technology demands your organization will need to master.  Whether it’s quickly developing new app experiences to delight customers or creating a more connected hybrid work model, fulfilling these digital demands is key to providing superior experiences for your customers and workforce. Are you ready? Well, if you’re like many facing the “great resignation,” finding the right…

Private 5G is a hot topic as enterprises seek industrial wireless IoT solutions to modernize their business for increased productivity and efficiency. In newly emerging cases, wired solutions are not enough, such as in sectors like hospitality where “protected buildings” limit running new cables. For manufacturing and other industries, critical processes like robotic assembly of essential parts (jet turbines, automotive transmissions, or medical devices) and autonomously guided vehicles need a very low-latency, high-reliability solution like…

Looking at the way life has changed over last two years, we all can agree that “Hybrid Work” no longer means just splitting time between working from home and going to the office in smaller groups. While the hybrid concept emerged during the pandemic to enable people to work from home, the office, or anywhere else of their choosing, it is now essential for everyone looking to move faster and operate more autonomously in an…

One of the biggest features of the new Catalyst 9500X and 9600X enterprise switches announced today is the inclusion of Cisco Silicon One Q200 ASICs. Back in 2019 when we introduced the Q100, the first member of the Cisco Silicon One family of devices, we made bold claims about uncompromised performance, efficiency, and flexibility that the architecture that underscores Cisco Silicon One will bring to networking. Today we are demonstrating this is certainly true for…

By 2025, Gartner estimates that over 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms, up from 30% in 2021. As enterprises embrace cloud platforms, legacy Tomcat applications (for example), will also be rearchitected. The use case for the deployment of cloud native applications on the new breed of cloud platforms is what we will address in this blog. In the first blog of this series, we looked at building workflows around IST…

The Linux expand and unexpand commands sound like they can make files larger and smaller, but what they actually do is turn tabs into spaces and spaces into tabs. In this post, we’ll use some simple text files to demonstrate what happens when you use expand and unexpand. We’ll also compare how these commands work with some likely more familiar commands—sed and awk—that can provide similar results and offer additional options. To begin, let’s take a…

Click. Tap. Swipe. Scroll. Learn. When Cisco Networking Academy launched Skills for All in July 2021, we transformed the global learning landscape with our free, mobile-first skills-to-jobs program. We made a promise to learners everywhere to meet them where they are in their learning journeys. Equipped with an Internet connection and access to a mobile phone, anyone, anywhere has the power to transform their future through education. Since the debut of Skills for All, over…

Whenever a new technology appears, it’s often tough to wrap your head around it. What does it do, exactly? What does it mean for my network? How much is this going to cost me? When you have questions like that, it’s important to know an expert. That way you can get your questions answered thoroughly and in a straight-forward manner. Lucky for you, the hallowed hallways of Cisco is littered with experts; and this week…

Juniper Networks has added firewall-as-a-service, policy, and segmentation features to its cloud-based security family that lets enterprise customers control and protect on-premises or cloud-based resources. The new Juniper Secure Edge package expands and strengthens brings key enterprise security features to Juniper’s core cloud-based management platform Security Director Cloud, but also bolsters the vendor’s secure access service edge (SASE) strategy.   Security Director Cloud learns customers’ policies and configurations and syncs them with on-prem firewalls. It includes…