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Ice and a Slice is a boutique agency in Oxford, England, that offers clients a choice of end-to-end marketing strategy services, a suite of creative and digital services, and fully integrated creative campaign management. The agency’s services model acts as an extension of their clients’ marketing teams. Though small, their staff of thinkers and doers produce award-winning results. Tight deadlines and client demand for boundary-pushing creative thinking and execution are only one part of the…

In September 2020, Nominet released the results of its survey of government digital security professionals based in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Middle East. More than four-fifths (81%) of those respondents told Nominet that they felt collaboration with the private sector could help their employers to keep pace with digital threats. Additionally, 99% revealed their belief that they could learn about innovation from working with private companies. At Cisco, we agree that…

The impact of recent events over the last year on the networking landscape cannot be emphasized enough. Organizations have undergone rapid transformation, moving to telework and dissolving the concept of a defined security perimeter. The explosion of distributed endpoints, brought about by employees working remotely, and proliferation of destinations with applications moving to the cloud, has surfaced unprecedented security challenges from a multitude of unknown threat vectors. The scale and impact of these threats has…

As a Credit Analyst in Cisco’s Finance organization, I’ve worked at our San Jose headquarters for 11 years. In that time, I focused on gaining experience in various functions throughout Cisco Capital (first in Operations and now in Global Credit) to provide me with a variety of perspectives. I incorporate this knowledge when facing daily corporate challenges. As part of the Credit Ops Team, I bring meaningful insights from data through analytics as well as…

By now you’ve undoubtedly heard the complaining about computing parts shortages, particularly from gamers who can’t get modern GPU cards and from car makers, since new cars these days are a rolling data center. The problem is also affecting business IT but in a different way, and there are steps you can take to address the problem. The first step, though, is patience. This shortage isn’t due to staffing or fabs being out of commission,…

Cisco Secure Endpoint (AMP for Endpoints) with Malware Analytics (ThreatGrid) offers Prevention, Detection, Threat Hunting and Response capabilities in a single solution. It protects Endpoints (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS) and prevents breaches, blocks malware at the point of entry and continuously monitors and analyses files and processes to quickly detect, contain, and remediate threats that can evade other security control mechanisms. Secure Endpoint offers these features through a public or private cloud deployment….

The US IT industry has seen strong job growth so far in 2021, according to revised figures from the US Bureal of Labor Statistics (BLS) as reported in the latest figures from IT employment consultancy Janco Associates. The BLS has adjusted its figures on job growth for all of 2021, bringing the total hires to 69,000 IT staffers through June. The agency had previously reported 47,700 jobs through May, a figure now revised upward to 57,100….

This week the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomuters found that, once again, Fugaku is number one, benchmarking at 442 Pflop/sec, making it three times faster than the second place machine. Impressive, but also indicative that it might also be the first to break the exaflop barrier if it’s working on the right kind of problem. TOP500 pointed out that Fugaku’s score (and everyone else’s) is based on double-precision benchmarks, the most accurate floating…

Cisco Secure Email Cloud Mailbox was built with one guiding principle – simplicity. Of course, it’s easy for us to talk about the benefits of our cloud-native email security product and how easy it is to use. But don’t just take it from us! Every day, our customers are reaping the benefits of enhanced email security, which in turn increases productivity, profitability, and overall organizational functionality. After all, a secure business is a successful business….

On March 22nd, 2017, Cisco concluded its acquisition of AppDynamics, with a one set goal of providing its customers, the holistic visibility and actionable insights across their entire domain. Fast forward to 2021, Cisco AppDynamics, was crowned a leader in Gartner’s “Leaders Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring” for the 9th time in a row! Gartner recognized AppDynamics for its excellence in business analytics, intensified by Cisco’s broad portfolio of infrastructure software products. Meanwhile, Cisco also…