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Co-Authored by Alexandra Zagury Virginia Supportive Housing’s (VSH) mission is to end homelessness. As the largest and oldest provider of permanent supportive housing in Virginia, VSH’s approach combines affordable housing with individualized services. VSH states simply: “We help people reclaim their lives.” The facts speak volumes:  more than 97% of VSH residents do not return to homelessness, and average incomes for residents increase by 127% within one year of becoming permanently housed with VSH. VSH’s…

Here at Cisco, we like to celebrate people in cybersecurity industry who are leading the fight against bad actors as well as those creating a secure culture for organizations and the people within them. This month, we interviewed Esmond Kane, CISO of Steward Health Care. Read on to learn about his journey and how he leads his team: What were you doing when you got your first taste of cybersecurity? First of all, while I…

A new CEO invariably means a reorganization around his/her vision of things and an attempt to address perceived problems in the company’s organizational structure. In hindsight, that’s another clue that Bob Swan wasn’t long for the CEO’s job at Intel, since he never did a reorg. Pat Gelsinger, who has been Intel’s CEO for just over four months, on the other hand, completely flipped the table with a major reorganization that creates two new business…

Taking on any new initiative within a large company is a tough road, but particularly for a publicly traded one. Three years ago, the CEO and board of directors of QTS debated and then agreed to take on the challenge of sustainability and they asked me to lead the initiative to ensure its success. No pressure, right? Three years later, and many milestones reached, we have achieved sustainability leadership in the data center industry. This…

The new world of hybrid working is fluid. One size will not fit all. While working remotely has become the norm, going back to the office will take many different forms. But regardless of working patterns or locations, the fact remains that we are more dependent than ever on having a stable, fast, and secure internet connection in our daily lives. Bandwidth is now required not just by our laptops, but also by our mobile…

I’m delighted that Cisco Secure has just confirmed our membership of the Security Advisor Alliance. This will allow us to do great things together, for the benefit of security leaders and also our community, and so I wanted to write this post to talk a little about our joint missions, and how we can help you. About our CISO Advisor team I lead Cisco’s global CISO Advisors team, a group of security leaders dedicated to…

I never thought I would work for Cisco. Even though I had worked for several years in the Bay Area with a background in Networking and Security – Cisco was not on my list because I had bought into some of the stereotypes like Cisco’s red tape or Cisco’s political culture which leaves very little autonomy. All that changed when my recruiter convinced me to give Cisco a shot 5 years ago – it was…

Data-center operators, perhaps stung by accusations that they’re power hogs, are making a major push to be green. Both Microsoft and Google have promised their data centers will be carbon neutral by 2030, while AWS is targeting 2040. I’m sure this is driven by good intentions, even as the cynic in me remembers that every dollar saved in the power bill goes right to the bottom line. So every effort helps, even if some are more…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced several expansions of its managed GreenLake services during its HPE Discover conference this week. GreenLake is HPE’s consumption model for hardware and services. Rather than make an outright purchase, customers determine the configuration they will need and HPE installs it, with a slight overprovisioning just in case. If the customer ends up needing more hardware capacity, it’s just turned on. Until then, it just sits there, unused, and at no charge….

This article was written in collaboration with Paula Silveira Temple, Cisco Communications & Engagement Manager.         Translation: Happy 20th birthday to Conexión, our Employee Resources Organization (ERO) for Latinx employees. Spanish for “connection,” Conexión has become one of our most recognized EROs. What began in 2001 as a simple mailer from a few Hispanic engineers to connect Latino employees around the world has turned into an organization of more than 1,500 members….