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“It’s not often that you can say you are improving security while also improving the user experience, but that’s what we have achieved with this rollout.” – Josephina Fernandez, Director of Security Architecture & Research at Cisco The network edge has left the building. Long before 2020 happened, we were working from coffee shops, airports and client sites. We have been using our personal devices on public or home networks to access productivity applications. Our…

It is commonly said that there are only two types of companies – those that know they’ve been compromised and those that don’t. Cyber risk is no longer confined to the four walls of an organization. This is making protection much harder. Employees are working remotely from company-issued and personally owned devices. They are using applications that reside in the cloud as well as in the corporate data center. These technological advances have made businesses…

Enterprise network is undergoing digitization through multiple technological transitions that include explosion of connected and IoT devices in the network and the movement of applications and services to the cloud. Of the 29.3 billion networking devices that are forecasted to be seen in the network by 2023, 50% are expected to be IoT devices. Cloud based applications and services are expected to be accessed from multiple sites and locations, both on and off of the…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) will conduct a conference call Thursday, May 27, 2021, at 4:30 p.m. CDT to discuss its fiscal 2022 first quarter financial results. The conference will be available to the public as a live, audio-only webcast on Dell Technologies’ website at investors.delltechnologies.com; an archived version will be available at the same location. The company will issue the results via a press release with accompanying financial statements…

The world stands on the brink of the fourth industrial revolution – the confluence of new technologies like cloud computing, big data analytics, and IoT have reached a tipping point where enterprises can successfully process workloads in the cloud like never before. Indeed, 85% of enterprises will have deployed new digital infrastructure in the cloud by 2025, according to industry analyst IDC. In the US, the cloud migration rate of enterprises has exceeded 85% and in EU…

The past year completely disrupted customers’ purchase behaviors, and the world we knew, both as people and as marketers, was flipped on its head. That is no different here in the Americas, where Cisco Partners are facing the same unpredictable economy. While it may be hard to predict the future, it’s more important than ever that we and our partners start preparing to ensure our customers are ready for whatever comes. On May 11, we…

IDC research suggests that there will be more than 50 billion Internet-connected devices by 2025: 14 billion non-IoT devices and another 41 billion connected IoT devices. In addition to that, enterprises are relying on Internet-connected services more than ever; 80% of new revenue will come from digital services by next year, and those digital services will be delivered over complex cloud environments. And yet, also according to IDC, 62% of enterprise IT leaders reported that…

Last month, the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Information Technology and Cybersecurity Director, Kevin Walsh, testified before the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight.  His message was clear: until modernization plans for critical federal legacy systems are created and implemented by agencies, those systems are increasingly at risk of cyber vulnerability and exploitation, modernization delays, cost overruns, and obsolescence. While Director Walsh’s comments were directed at a handful of specific agency systems, his…

Eve-Marie Lanza, Sr. Manager of Solutions Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. For anyone who has lived in a dense apartment complex or building, multiple Wi-Fi routers close together competing for limited radio signal space can make accessing the Internet a challenging experience, to say the least. To address the problem, property managers are increasingly treating Wi-Fi as a fifth utility for large multifamily communities, not only to create a better overall online…

A decade ago, I said the Chromebooks would be Windows PC killers. I got that wrong. But I wasn’t as wrong as you might think. Today, Microsoft is hard at work turning Windows from a standalone PC operating system into a cloud-based Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) with its Cloud PC model. Who had that idea first? Who proved that users would accept a cloud-based desktop? That would be Google with the Chrome OS.  Back in the day,…