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In collaboration with Emily Cousins Traditionally, the graduates and interns who join Cisco and work at our Bedfont Lakes office form tight-knit bonds with each other. It is what takes them away on holidays together, after work get-togethers, and cosmic mini-golfing, go-karting, or fancy team dinners. It’s a family unit forged in the shared experiences of starting a new chapter in their lives. When all these in-person moments dissipated with the onslaught of a pandemic,…

Norfolk Southern is one of the largest freight railroad companies in the U.S.  It employs more than 20,000 people and operates nearly 20,000 route miles across 22 states and the District of Colombia. It also supports international trade at every major container port in the eastern United States. Chances are, many of the products you use were transported by Norfolk Southern. But this story isn’t about the railroad or even the trains, it’s about the…

Cisco’s New Intersight Cloud Orchestration (ICO) Service Is Up and Running! Earlier this month, we introduced Intersight Cloud Orchestration (ICO) — Intersight’s brand new automation service. In that blog, we covered the importance of orchestration and talked about how Intersight is evolving to the world’s simplest hybrid cloud platform. This blog will tell you more about ICO and what it can do for you. The next post will dive deeper into how ICO works, providing…

The following is based on an excerpt from the 2020 CSR Impact Report, published on December 8, 2020. Today’s cyber attacks are ever-evolving, so we must make investments to stay ahead. These investments include enhancements to the foundational security of our solutions, adding layers of security that help protect against counterfeit and unauthorized versions of hardware and software. We also manage a portfolio of 400 (and growing) products that are equipped with trustworthy capabilities to…

We’re all tired of shortages. Things we took for granted are now hard to find or cost a lot more. Maybe you opened a new online account to locate that thing you need. Ah, the feeling of relief when it finally arrived. But what if that’s when your real troubles began? Let’s rewind. When you opened that new account, you added a new vendor to your personal supply chain. You handed over personal data, and…

It is no news, and confirmed by recent surveys, that people working in Information Technology (IT) sector need to operate within a more complex environment than it used to be years ago. The ongoing digital transformation combined with the need to leverage IT as a competitive differentiator, rather than a necessary evil, is driving the shift to a more complex landscape. Data volumes keep growing, budgets are not. The workforce is highly mobile and distributed,…

Interoperability among network components and end devices—such as Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) and Remote Terminal Units (RTUs)—is incredibly important in utility systems. Technology vendors that help develop and then incorporate networking standards into their solutions foster rapid adoption, reduce technology risk, and power innovations. Cisco customers in energy utilities and Transmission System Operators (TSO) are requiring compliance with the International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) 61850 standard. In fact, compliance is becoming mandatory in RFPs because it…

On May 12, the Biden Administration published the “Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity.” This directive recognizes that many malicious actors and operations are confronting the U.S. government in the digital space today. It’s this reality that requires the U.S. government to focus on strengthening its defensive capabilities in a big way. “Incremental improvements will not give us the security we need,” notes the Executive Order. “[I]nstead, the Federal Government needs to make bold…

Let’s talk about training for a minute.  From a partner perspective, growing your business means enhancing the skills, knowledge and talent of your people. From an operational perspective, productivity and performance are key factors to increasing effectiveness.  Ready access to information to help you prepare for changes in offers, policies, processes and capabilities translates into being more prepared to serve your customers. Cisco’s Partner Operational Readiness (The Hub), is fully geared to supporting our Partners…

It was a packed virtual RSA Conference this year. Although I missed being in San Francisco’s Moscone center, visiting booths and chatting with industry peers, the virtual experience did have one key benefit in my opinion – the on-demand replays of the sessions. I was able to watch all the sessions that I wanted to without having to rush across the floors of the Moscone center. Resilience was the key theme this year at RSAC…