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Cisco Blogs / Retail and Hospitality / Sustainability in Retail The global consumer market has moved more and more toward ubiquitous connectivity, on-demand shopping, and instant fulfillment, particularly in the last 18 months. These market changes bring environmental impacts that include higher carbon emissions from production and supply-chain operations and increasing amounts of waste from products with shorter lifecycles and single-use packaging. Sustainability initiatives in retail initially focused on reducing packaging or using recyclable materials…

As a boomerang employee, who returned to Cisco five years ago after a four-year hiatus, I had an eye-opening experience coming into a new-to-me area of business—Cisco Cloud Security (an OpenDNS Acquisition). From my vantage point, the technology world had completely evolved—including the hardware and software, terminology, product development, the concept of quality, go-to-market strategy, and even the perception of Cisco. It was a far cry from my first stint when everything was on-premises and…

In this series introducing the concept of transformational fitness, I’ve shared two strategies for building fitness: Adopt a Growth Mindset and Create Safe Spaces. In this last piece, I’ll focus on the role of learning & celebration in sustaining fitness.  Teams who live and breathe retrospective practices promote a culture of continuous improvement & learning. The rhythm of reflection & celebration serves as an energizer for teams, motivating them and sustaining transformation success.   Of the…

Our customers are the heart and soul of everything we do at Cisco and each one of them has an interesting story to tell! Our Q&A series allows us to shine a spotlight on some of our most passionate customer advocates in The Global Gateway community as we learn more about their stories and backgrounds. You may be wondering: What is The Global Gateway? It’s a community for Cisco customers where they can build powerful…

At the end of last year, I heard from a long-time enterprise contact that had a major security concern. The company had installed three layers of security and just completed an audit. It showed that since thIey’d finished their installation they’d had five security incidents, and all of them had originated inside their security perimeter, bypassing most of their protection. Their question was what they did wrong and how they could fix it. What this…

The look command on Linux can be handy for selecting particular lines from text files with sorted contents. Let’s look into how it can be used and where you might run into some problems. Case sensitivity If you type a command such as “look unix”, you should see this: $ look unix UNIX Unix unix Notice that, because no file was specified in the command shown, look reverts to using the words file on the…

Announces participation in upcoming investor events SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks, Inc. (NYSE:ANET) will release its financial results for the quarter ended December 31st, 2021 after U.S. markets close on Monday, February 14th, 2022. The results will be included in a press release with accompanying financial information that will be posted on the Investor Relations section of the Arista website at https://investors.arista.com. Arista’s executive management team will host a conference call on February 14th,…

Lenovo’s latest addition to the ThinkEdge portfolio of edge-computing devices packs Nvidia GPUs with AI capabilities into a ruggedized design that’s roughly the size of a laptop. The ThinkEdge SE450 is a 2U, 300mm (12 inches) unit that includes a third-generation Xeon Platinum processor and up to four single-width or two double-width GPUs, along with six NVMe SSDs and 1TB of DDR4 memory, making it one of the first Nvidia-certified Edge systems. There is also…

Because of massive turnover in workforces, a renewed focus on employee safety, and negative impacts on customer loyalty and satisfaction, manufacturers have built new business models to service their customers. They’ve deployed new hybrid workplace models and renewed their focus on the Circular Economy. Because of this, sustainability’s new meaning in the Manufacturing industry is maintaining its position in the marketplace. Data from IMD World Competitiveness Center shows a K-shaped recovery, where digitally savvy companies…

You haven’t had an uninterrupted vacation in years, your presentation at the last board meeting fell short, and it’s hard for you to imagine how the organization would function without you at the helm.  These are all very real situations for today’s CISO.  With the shortage of resources, it has never been harder to resource all the functions of an effective security team.  Now more than ever, you need to work intentionally to identify and…