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How many of you remember when Marketing Velocity was just an event? We brought together a few hundred marketers from around the world with one goal: Connecting and building our partners marketing practices. Then we decided that it wasn’t enough. We wanted to help our partners drive demand for their businesses by creating a way to accelerate partners’ marketing efforts. In the spirit of Partner Summit’s theme, “Everything Possible” I am excited to share that…

Static manufacturing operations are going obsolete. Plant managers had to quickly pivot to dynamic operations in the wake of pandemic-related supply chain disruptions and “roaring demand.” Lately I’ve been hearing from more and more manufacturers interested in smart manufacturing technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), robotics, cloud computing, supply chain technologies, and the industrial internet of things (IIoT). Smart manufacturing (aka digital transformation, Industry 4.0 or Connected Enterprise) is a journey. To succeed you…

Multi-user MIMO allows multiple Wi-Fi devices to simultaneously receive multiple data streams. For example, a wireless access point (AP) can send data to four different Wi-Fi devices at the same time. MU-MIMO can greatly increase the network’s throughput and is a real asset for high density networks. MIMO – which stands for multiple input multiple output – technology has evolved over the years since the debut of the single-user mode (SU-MIMO), which was introduced more…

Kyndryl, formerly IBM’s Managed Infrastructure Services unit, is officially an independent company. From the start the spinoff will be big, with more than 90,000 employees, $19 billion in annual revenue, operations in over 60 countries, and a customer base that includes 75% of the Fortune 100. Its goal of modernizing customer infrastructure will remain at the center of its strategy, but it wants to expand. Company executives say by spinning out of IBM, Kyndryl will…

This blog comes from Judge Aliyah Sabree, who presides over traffic and misdemeanor cases at the 36th District Court, the largest district court in Michigan, U.S.A. and who was featured in a recent article on The Cisco Newsroom. Meet Judge Sabree and learn more about the Second Chance Justice Reform Initiative on our upcoming Women Rock-IT broadcast on November 18. Our court is the busiest court in Michigan and one of the largest (caseload wise)…

OKLAHOMA CITY and ROUND ROCK, Texas, Nov. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — News summary State of Oklahoma updates and transforms its data center infrastructure with Dell Technologies to modernize disaster recovery and become a digital-first government The effort digitizes information services to better support its four million citizens Modern technology architecture helps ensure that citizen data is protected and accessible through inclement weather and power outages Dell Technologies data protection and storage solutions play a critical…

As a User Experience (UX) Designer, my role requires empathy, flexibility, and visibility into a variety of personas. I love putting users front and center when designing delightful experiences, and I believe that UX not only applies to digital and physical products, but far beyond that as well. I see UX everywhere from our homes to our governments, and throughout almost every industry, organization, and company – like Cisco! How do UX principles show up…

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 9 released today as a beta, bringing about a dozen major new features focused on security and compliance, simplified management and automation. But the biggest news might be the lack of changes to the management and administration tools from the previous version, which could make adoption fairly painless. The key new management features include enhanced web-console performance metrics for easier diagnosis of problems, live kernel patching without the need for…

Managing the resources that comprise today’s edge computing ecosystems is complicated and challenging. Yet, it’s a critical task, as automation, the Internet of Things, and cloud computing take their place in today’s hybrid IT infrastructure in every major industry. Take financial services. Branch offices are deploying mini data centers to get vital information and services closer to customers. Or retailers, who are finding increased computing power in the store crucial for providing better customer experiences….

As IT pros evaluate the role of network-as-a-service, they weigh the upsides of quicker access to new technologies and faster incident-response times against loss of control over security and potential disruptions caused by transitioning away from traditional networking, according to a new Cisco report. These are among the results from Cisco’s survey of 1,534 IT professionals in 13 countries as well as interviews with 20 IT leaders that are compiled in the company’s “2022 Global…