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After nearly two years of adopting major network and security changes wrought by COVID-19 and hybrid work, weary IT network and security teams didn’t need another big issue to take care of, but they have one: Stemming potential damage from the recently disclosed vulnerability in open source Java-logging Apache Log4j software.   Log4j or Log4Shell has been around a long time—it was released in January, 2001—and is widely used in all manner of enterprise and…

After nearly two years of adopting major network and security changes wrought by COVID-19 and hybrid work, weary IT network and security teams didn’t need another big issue to take care of, but they have one: Stemming potential damage from the recently disclosed vulnerability in open source Java-logging Apache Log4j software.   Log4j or Log4Shell has been around a long time—it was released in January, 2001—and is widely used in all manner of enterprise and…

We hear a lot about how Wi-Fi 6E is going to change the way we work and play. With the ability to achieve higher throughput and lower latency due to more frequency availability and less congestion, combined with better security, Wi-Fi 6E has given us a new playbook of applications and use cases. As a Distinguished Engineer in Cisco’s CX CTO organization, I spend a lot of time working within large public venues such as…

Education institutions deliver a vast array of services to students beyond their core mission of teaching and learning, from academic, health and emotional support to counseling have historically been challenged to provide the vast array of student services they need to deliver in a timely, high quality and cost-effective manner. Among the reasons for this are the difficulty in finding the specialists they need to deliver the services, the cost of those specialists, and the…

Back in 1991, I ran across the debut album, Ten, from a little band out of Seattle called Pearl Jam. Being a fan of classic rock like Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton, Pearl Jam’s take on grunge appealed to me, and I began to listen to Ten regularly. About a year later, Ten hit the mainstream, and suddenly I had friends telling me to check out this new band called Pearl Jam. These days, I’m…

Manufacturers were already digitizing their processes before March 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic gave IT and operational professionals in the manufacturing space reasons to want to move faster. Teams that can’t work on the factory floor (pandemic, weather, closed roads, etc.) need a way to monitor and control processes over the network. Supply chain woes—like wildly fluctuating demand and the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal—highlighted the need for agility. A skilled labor shortage has…

By Olli Walsdorf, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cloud and Compute Infrastructure Group How MinIO Cloud Scale Storage benefits from Infrastructure as Code With the rise of hybrid cloud scale storage, solutions that use both local on-prem and offsite storage resources are getting more popular. Hybrid deployments are the new normal and every cloud scale storage vendor has a solution for it. Popular use cases for hybrid cloud scale storage are disaster recovery, data protection, capacity management,…

By: Gabriel Gomane, Sr Product Marketing Manager, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. The ability to converge existing networking and security functions into a single SASE vendor is a compelling proposition. Afterall, a full-stack solution offers convenience and a relatively straight-forward deployment paradigm; however, such an approach may come with unforeseen downsides, including gaps in functionality along with a reduction in flexibility required for today’s networks that must serve an increasingly hybrid, work-from-anywhere environment. In…

The kids who visit 826 Valencia are usually too busy having fun to realize that they are doing homework. It might have something to do with the Pirate Supply Store, which greets kids when they enter, before they sit down for one-on-one tutoring with a volunteer. It is this unique combination of fun and learning that has helped drive the success of this community writing center in San Francisco’s Mission District. Over the last few…

Understanding disability and how to make daily experiences accessible are two things I strive to do. Fifteen percent of people around the world have a disability. At Cisco, some of our teammates are blind or partially sighted, deaf or hard of hearing, have motor issues, or work around a cognitive disability like dyslexia or attention deficit. To make sure Cisco employees with disabilities can collaborate on equal footing with their coworkers, the Collaboration business unit…