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The Transformational Tech series highlights Cisco’s nonprofit grant recipients that use technology to help transform the lives of individuals and communities. With widespread school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital divide widened for children who lack access to the internet or electronic devices. A report from the International Telecommunication Union and UNICEF shows that two-thirds of the world’s school-age children — or 1.3 billion children, aged 3 to 17 years old — do not have an…

It’s with great pleasure that I can today share Cisco’s intent to acquire replex GmbH, a privately held enterprise software company based in Germany.  The acquisition of replex will help AppDynamics grow its product and engineering talent with a view toward accelerating and expanding product capabilities that observe enterprise-scale, cloud-native environments. Replex’s deep expertise in Kubernetes, real-time data extraction and analytics will further strengthen AppDynamics’ world-class product and engineering team as we accelerate the delivery of Cisco’s Full-Stack Observability vision.   Over the last 12 months, I’ve talked about the importance of full-stack observability in solving some…

On May 12, President Biden signed a cybersecurity Executive Order (EO) aimed at improving efforts to “identify, deter, protect against, detect, and respond to these actions and actors”. The order aims to improve federal security practices and threat intelligence sharing amongst federal agencies and the private sector; enhance software supply chain security, and improve federal security incident response. The impact of this order will ultimately extend beyond federal agencies, impacting vendors who directly support the…

I grew up in a ravishingly small village in Gujarat, India named Vekariya. My parents were farmers, and I was going to a rural private school where my teachers found me as a bright student. I eventually left school to take up the responsibility of caring for my younger brother, doing house chores, and cooking at the age of seven. All of this, while helping my parents on the farm. After a few days of…

The technology and business world has effectively shifted to a remote or, for some, a hybrid work environment. While we struggled into this new lifestyle seemingly overnight, we were also working to ensure the diverse voices across the globe were also heard and their needs met. Liz Fosslien, a co-author and illustrator of the Wall Street Journal Best-seller No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work and an expert on how to…

Every year, the IT Blog Awards, hosted by Cisco, sets out to uncover and celebrate all of the passionate technology content creators around the globe. Over the past several years, we’ve run several successful contests—receiving hundreds of submissions, garnering thousands of votes and, ultimately, crowning our final winners. It is a very exciting time of the year. As we gear up to launch our 2021 competition, I wanted to share some insider information that you…

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solves many problems that historically have plagued data center managers – clutter, management complexity, and high upgrade and maintenance costs created by multiple Ethernet boxes, servers, and storage arrays. Hyperconvergence removes those elements by combining data center functions into a single node. As such, HCI is ideal for unstaffed edge computing sites, which can number in the thousands as part of a single network. As companies deploy edge environments, IT managers are coming…

Expect the unexpected – that’s just one of the core premises IT leaders need to embrace in the next few years, according to Gartner’s top strategic predictions for 2022 and beyond. IT leaders need to be able to move in multiple strategic directions at once, said Daryl Plummer, distinguished research vice president and Gartner Fellow, to the virtual audience at the firm’s IT Symposium/Xpo Americas, held this week. “Resilience, opportunity and risk have always been components of…

Between reacting to change and reimagining education, there’s a bridge. You’re reinventing education models in real-time. The rise of distance and hybrid learning since 2020 means staff and students are relying on your systems like never before. You’re adjusting to a mix of new technology needs back in classrooms. Security and privacy are paramount. But you also need solutions that are simple to use, work together seamlessly, and are backed by world-class support. That’s why…

September was an exciting month as APJC Cisco’s Growth Marketing team won two accolades at Forrester’s B2B Summit APAC 2021! The first was the Programme of the Year award, recognizing outstanding achievement in a particular area of sales, marketing, or product functions, based on the successful implementation of Forrester’s research, frameworks, and best practices. Mark Phibbs, Cisco’s Vice President, Global Insights & Analytics and APJC Marketing, shared with summit participants how the marketing function can…