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The global semiconductor shortage made worse by the coronavirus pandemic and supply chain issues shows no signs of improving as industries worldwide have had to halt production while waiting for processors. A report from the US Department of Commerce released this week revealed an “alarming” shortage of computer chips at a time when the median demand for them was as much as 17% higher in 2021 than 2019. “This is a major supply and demand…

Contributing author:Vipul Shah, Engineering Product Manager – Cisco SD WAN In today’s world, enterprise customers are dominantly focused on their users and applications. The bridge that stitches them together is the Enterprise WAN, which not only needs to align with the growing complex needs of its users but also needs to be secure, scalable, resilient, and programable. Cisco SD-WAN brings together users, branches, applications, and data centers (on-prem or cloud) under one cohesive architecture to…

Connectivity Complexities As technology advances, businesses will connect more applications, devices, and people via the cloud than ever before. With more connection comes increased failure domains and complexity realms. #CiscoChat Live Broadcast To learn more about what makes cloud adoption successful in today’s world, join us for our next #CiscoChat Live broadcast. In our live conversation, Todd Brannon speaks with Matthew Ferguson and Stephen Augustus from Cisco Emerging Tech & Incubation to explore what exactly…

Connectivity Complexities As technology advances, businesses will connect more applications, devices, and people via the cloud than ever before. With more connection comes increased failure domains and complexity realms. #CiscoChat Live Broadcast To learn more about what makes cloud adoption successful in today’s world, join us for our next #CiscoChat. In our live conversation, Todd Brannon speaks with Matthew Ferguson and Stephen Augustus from Cisco Emerging Tech & Incubation to explore what exactly cloud-native means…

Part 2 of a 6 Part Series on the Future of Hybrid Work: Reimagine Mobility Mobility is essential to the future of hybrid work. Mobility can mean logging in from anywhere (nomadic); the ability to keep a connection when moving among Wi-Fi access points, or cell to cell (homogeneous); or moving between Wi-Fi and cellular (heterogeneous). This ability to connect and work from anywhere removes boundaries and gives us greater flexibility in all we do….

Long before the technology boom, there was a need to build better, quality connections between individuals. From the use of telegrams to audio radio transmissions to social interaction sites on the internet, we all are looking to make connections and build lasting friendships. Howard Thurman, a twentieth century civil rights leader and author, said, “There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is ‘Where am I going?’ and the second is…

“It matters how we get there.” This phrase has become a mantra for me and the rest of the IoT team at Cisco. Yes, we are laser focused on helping our customers achieve their business objectives, as well as achieving our own internal goals. But we care about more than just the bottom line. We want to help enterprises succeed, so that everyone benefits – shareholders, executives, and employees, and also members of their communities….

What a time to be alive! We’ve come a long way since the pandemic began in early 2020, and there have been several unforeseen changes in recent times – both personally and professionally. While these (almost) two years have undoubtedly been difficult, we’ve done our best to persevere as we continue to overcome this period in our lives. Amidst all the uncertainty, however, I’ve found comfort in remembering to appreciate the little things that life…

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) indicates that “Raising living standards [in Mexico] will require boosting productivity growth by improving the business climate, including…enhancing the skills across the population.” The International Youth Foundation (IYF) took a pragmatic approach to this by undertaking research on the IT job postings in some Mexican states and analyzing the curriculum offered by the Colegio Nacional de Educacion Profesional (CONALEP), the largest technical vocational system in Mexico, with…

When Cisco created the first earlier this year, five key practices emerged as being most critical to successful security programs. But why are these practices so impactful? And what should security leaders do to implement and maintain them? These questions (and more) have been answered in our newly published . As a part of that study, we’re diving even further into each of these five drivers through a five-post blog series. And here, in Part…