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The connections your customers build with your brand are largely tied to how they interact with your organization digitally. Customer experiences derived through these engagements have never been more important than now. Nearly a third (32%) of customers stated they would stop interacting with a brand they loved after one bad app experience,1 and a recent Forbes study found that 83% of executives surveyed faced moderate to severe risks to their revenue and market share…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Oct. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) board of directors has approved distribution of a special stock dividend to Dell Technologies stockholders of all its shares of Class A and Class B common stock of VMware, Inc. This represents approximately 81% of the outstanding shares of VMware common stock. Each share of VMware Class B common stock will be converted into one share of VMware Class A common stock…

“Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?” Actually, if you use computers for pretty much anything, you do. Oh, you may not know it if you’re not a system or network administrator, but security, identification, networks, everything that makes the internet goes depends on accurate time-keeping. To do this, some systems rely on Global Positioning Systems (GPS) appliances and the GPSD daemon to tell the exact time, and a nasty…

The xargs command on Linux can make it easier to build and execute commands. If you want to run the same command for a group of files or users, xargs can often make that process easier. Here’s a very simple example of xargs that creates or updates the update time on some files. $ echo file1 file2 file3 | xargs touch $ ls -l total 0 -rw-r–r–. 1 shs shs 0 Oct 15 12:41 file1 -rw-r–r–….

$2.8 trillion. That was the estimated cost impact of poor-quality software to organizations in the U.S. alone in 2018.1 With 100 times more code being managed in 2020 than 10 years ago2, the chances for software error and resulting costs are increasing exponentially and globally. The importance of software quality has never been higher.   Software quality is one of the most important ingredients that has led to the incredible success of the Cisco Catalyst 9000 switching family, the fastest ramping product in Cisco history. With four million+ units deployed in mission-critical networks at more than 70,000 organizations globally,…

I don’t know about you, but since the start of the pandemic, I’ve been glued to my streaming services. I had my early months of watching “Contagion;” went through my phase of watching and re-watching “Avatar the Last Airbender;” and made my way through countless sci-fi flicks. Now I am hooked on getting previews into what’s coming out next. From trailers for the new Spiderman movie and the prequel of Game of Thrones (let’s hope…

“Left of Boom” The allied military forces engaged in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago were confronted with the challenge of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), which were roadside bombs that detonated remotely and inflicted casualties and damage to military personnel and materiel. Major research efforts on how to detect these IEDs and detonate them harmlessly, or to infiltrate and disrupt bomb manufacturing, were referred by the idiom “Left of Boom.” “Left” is…

Digital investments, be they in AI, cloud, security, or engineering, will be among the top technology drivers for 2022, according to Gartner’s annual forecast of what it expects will be leading strategic IT trends. “It is an overarching drive for organizations to do more with and scale the digital environments they have been rapidly developing during the pandemic,” said David Groombridge, research vice president at Gartner. “Most of these trends define technologies that together show…

In collaboration with Vishal Gupta and Srinu Kalla Most IT engineers can agree that device provisioning for new offices is tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone. Fortunately, our Cisco IT Customer Zero team—which tries out the latest Cisco solutions and integrations to prove value and share experiences—has discovered that it doesn’t need to be that way. By leveraging the Plug & Play (PnP) capability in Cisco DNA Center, we’ve managed to slash provisioning time by over 50%,…

Betting on the GOAT The date was March 20, 2020.  On that day Superbowl quarterback Tom Brady announced he would join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  Tampa Bay was already a championship caliber team, but with Tom joining the 2021 Superbowl title was all but assured.  The same could be said for a Converged Infrastructure called FlexPod Datacenter (Cisco Servers with NetApp storage) and the level of success it has enjoyed hosting Microsoft SQL Server over…