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By Tim Vanevenhoven, Director of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships. As customers return to stores, restaurants, and public venues, companies are increasingly leveraging mobile point-of-service tools to acquire and retain customers and run back-office operations. Whether it’s a mobile point-of-sale terminal, a portable receipt printer, or a wireless inventory barcode scanner, the business-critical roles played by these devices requires always-on network access and always-up application performance. Standard IT troubleshooting and diagnostic tools examine segments of…

Enterprises are increasingly adopting a multitude of applications delivered from the cloud. These applications not only promise to reduce IT costs but to enable key outcomes at scale to ensure business continuity and guaranteed SLAs. Enterprise IT is responsible for the seamless connectivity to these applications and ensuring their security and efficiency while maintaining low TCO. Two recent cloud integrations with the Cisco Catalyst 9000 series switches ― Cisco ThousandEyes and Cisco DNA Spaces ―…

Moving to cloud is an individual journey for every organization. Many companies have taken the hybrid path and are working within multiple clouds. Yet others are still primarily on-prem but want to continue their transition to cloud seamlessly in their own time and at their own pace.  No matter where in the cloud journey an organization is, options and flexibility are essential to being able to address the organization’s unique business requirements. With the increasing number of both managed and unmanaged devices connecting to corporate networks, simplicity and automation play a critical role in how…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — News summary Dell EMC VxRail systems based on latest Dell EMC PowerEdge servers offer faster performance and greater capacity New VxRail dynamic nodes support VMware HCI Mesh, allowing users to independently scale storage and compute for better resource management VxRail dynamic nodes with VMware Cloud Foundation introduce connectivity with Dell EMC PowerStore, PowerMax and Unity XT to support additional data intensive workloads VxRail HCI System Software introduces…

Established in 2006, Medcare Hospitals & Medical Centres is a healthcare network based in the United Arab Emirates. Comprised of four hospitals and 15 medical centres, as well as four more centres opening this year, the multicultural network provides preventive, curative, and rehabilitative healthcare globally. Utilizing its “3Es” of Medcare Enriches, Empowers, and Evolves, they promote a “caring mission with a global vision.” Prior to March 2020, Medcare’s patient-doctor interaction consisted of face-to-face consultations, where…

  Co-author – Steve Shearer, Chief Scientist, octoScope Contributors – Ming Chong and Santa Chowdhury (octoScope) We are particularly grateful to Nilesh Doshi (Sr. Wireless AP Manager) for his supervision. Servicing many clients that are using small packets with non-Wi-Fi 6 is inefficient because the overheads incurred by the preamble and other mechanisms tend to dominate. OFDMA is ideally suited for this scenario because it divides up the channel and services up to 37 users…

Imagination to Innovation Think about Uber and AirBnB – classic and often-cited case studies of businesses who completely redefined their entire industries by creating an experience that was simpler, faster, more intelligent and far more cost-effective than anything that had existed before. This platform experience is the basis for the explosive growth we’ve seen in public cloud over the last decade and a half – and it’s an experience that’s been relatively elusive to the on-prem world until recently.  The main reason for this is that building the same platform experience on-prem that exists…

What is Cisco ACI? Since its development in 2012, Cisco ACI has been the industry’s most secure, open, and comprehensive software-defined networking (SDN) solution. ACI enables automation that accelerates infrastructure deployment and governance, simplifies management to easily move workloads across a multifabric, hybrid cloud or multicloud framework, and proactively secures against risk arising from anywhere.  It radically simplifies, optimizes, and expedites the application deployment lifecycle. Cisco ACI enables customers to build a truly agile and…

Late last year, Kaustubh Das unveiled our ambitious vision for the Intersight Hybrid Cloud Operations Platform. Today, we are excited to share details of the latest updates and new services in the industry’s smartest and simplest cloud operations platform. diving deeper into hybrid cloud operations with Intersight Today, applications are at the very core of the digital experience for most enterprises. Companies in every industry use software and applications to engage with their customers. And…

The internet is rapidly becoming a universal and economical choice to connect the widely distributed workforce, workplaces, and cloud applications that comprise the essence of the new normal enterprise. In response, ITOps is fast at work rearchitecting the enterprise WAN to adapt to increasing reliance on cloud and SaaS applications via internet connections from branches and home offices. However, ITOps teams are being challenged to deliver consistent and reliable connectivity and application performance over networks…