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How do you know #LoveWhereYouWork is more than a saying? For me, there’s lots of reasons – but less than three weeks before the arrival of my firstborn, my team in Customer Experience showed that in a way unlike any other. During an all hands meeting, it was announced that a member of our leadership was at someone’s door with a surprise. Everyone was shocked, and immediately the team’s expressions shifted as a few asked,…

It’s Cold. It’s Dark. It’s the middle of Nowhere. And somewhere out there is a mountain. At any moment I will begin a twisty, turvy, challenging journey – that includes running 100 miles all at once. Sometimes I wonder what I’m even doing out there, but then I remember it’s a lot like my life – and my career journey to Cisco as a Sales Engineering Leader on our Global Demo Engineering Team. How are…

Cisco Makes $150 million Commitment to help HBCUs Strategically Recover and Flourish Cisco’s purpose is to power an inclusive future for all. This means building a workforce that is reflective of the world we live in, helping to connect the unconnected, and answering the call to those in need. With our purpose as our backdrop, Cisco committed to being a part of the reckoning on racial injustice that affected us profoundly. Last September, we unveiled our Social…

A Comparative Analysis of Architectures and Their Trade-offs Organizations have many options when implementing an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN). Choice of network design with respect to overlay routing may be influenced by a combination of factors, including scalability, multi-tenancy, segmentation, and operational simplicity. Understanding the key differences among various overlay routing architectures makes it possible to evaluate and choose an implementation that offers a best fit for an organization. This blog post compares the…

Just six months after unveiling its first AI inferencing processor, Mythic AI has announced a new round of funding for $70 million in Series C investment to begin mass production of its chips and to develop its next generation of hardware and software products. In November, the company announced the M1108 Analog Matrix Processor (AMP) aimed at edge AI deployments across a wide range of applications, including manufacturing, video surveillance, smart cities, smart homes, AR/VR,…

A circle is a universal symbol. The application of a circle is used to safely navigate large cities with round-a-bouts and on/off ramps to major highways. To fuel the world around us with windmills. Its concept is used for fun like a Ferris Wheel at the local fair and the beloved Tootsie Pop sucker. It’s also found in even the most remote locations like Stonehenge, the Great Blue Hole off the shores of Belize, and…

Palo Alto Networks bolstered its security portfolio with products that target enterprise network users looking to make the move to a zero-trust environment. The new capabilities focus on a number of zero trust mechanisms—including  SaaS, cloud and DNS that will be available in June—and will make it significantly easier for organizations to adopt zero-trust security across the enterprise, according to Anand Oswal, senior vice president and general manager with Palo Alto. As more people are…

At the onset of the pandemic, school closures affected 1.5 billion students across 191 countries[i]. Overnight, educators had to pivot and introduce new modes of lesson delivery to keep learning alive. We’ve seen education models upended from traditional classroom-based pedagogy to fully online delivery. The pandemic accelerated an unprecedented digital transformation in education. With the changes we’ve seen in the last year alone, there is no doubt that the landscape of education has changed forever….

What a year it’s been! A year of facemasks, social distancing, economic crises and home-schooling; a year without travel and without hugs. We’ve all had to be flexible and adapt to new realities — in our personal lives, and as marketers too. That was one of the key themes of our EMEAR Marketing Velocity Virtual event, which I had the honour of hosting on 11th May. Here are some of my highlights from the event….

Cisco SecureX: Year 2 It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a year since we announced the Cisco SecureX platform at RSA 2020! We set out with the goal to streamline our customers’ operations with increased visibility across their security portfolio, provide out-of-the-box integrations, powerful security analytics, and automated workflows to speed threat detection and response. Almost a year and more than 6,500 customers later, we have continued to add capabilities and build bridges between various…