NETWORKING

By Austin Hawthorne, NaaS Sales Director, at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. In networking, there will always be a gap between what’s needed and what’s available, whether it’s budget, resources, or time. This not only impacts the ability of a business to be agile, innovative, and competitive, but it also affects its people, specifically the team that’s tasked with ensuring the network meets or exceeds the business’s ever expanding needs. Morale suffers when network…

How will we tame networking complexity?  When I’m speaking with IT leaders, one of the top challenges they are dealing with is rampant complexity in their networks. And it’s no wonder because the demands placed on enterprise networks today are exponentially more than even a decade ago. Indeed, the Internet has never been so critical for business operations. Driven by the massive deployment of SaaS and a hybrid workforce reality, the Internet has become the new enterprise core.   If that weren’t…

Welcome to our blog series on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Each blog in this series will highlight a different Cisco employee who works closely with CSR initiatives across the company. Shawna Darling, Social Corporate Responsibility Programs Development Manager at Cisco Robots plucking trash out of oceans and low-cost bionic limbs; these are just two winning concepts from the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, which announced its latest winners in June. The…

Welcome to our blog series on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Each blog in this series will highlight a different Cisco employee who works closely with CSR initiatives across the company. Shawna Darling, Social Corporate Responsibility Programs Development Manager at Cisco Robots plucking trash out of oceans and low-cost bionic limbs; these are just two winning concepts from the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, which announced its latest winners in June. The…

Claudius. Iago. Richard III. Epic villains who used malicious, deceitful acts to cause pain and destruction in Shakespeare’s greatest dramatic plays. Cybersecurity threat actors are no different. Through malware, phishing, and other exploitive activities, these villains take advantage of vulnerabilities and seek to cause harm. And it’s no secret that the shift to hybrid work has emboldened and provided new opportunities for these cybersecurity threat actors. This era has brought with it new perimeters, with…

How did two Cisco employees become vlog hosts in the year 2020 that connected us to industry leaders in technology? Well, this is that story and for me, it all happened just as I was about to become a first time mother. I knew I wanted to do something special, but I did not realize that ‘something’ would be THIS special! My story is about how to stay ‘you’ in challenging times and as you…

As classroom-based learning moves back to the front-burner for both K-12 and Higher Education, institutions are adopting a variety of new approaches to help smooth the transition. Two tools that are driving this next generation of student engagement are the use of cloud calling and intelligent endpoints. Are we at a pivotal moment for student engagement? Simple and reliable, these two tools are empowering more creative classrooms while improving student engagement and reducing distractions to…

You have to hand it to Larry Ellison, he is persistent. Or maybe he just doesn’t know when to give up. Either way, Oracle has shipped the latest in its Exadata server appliances, making some pronounced boosts in performance. Exadata was the old Sun Microsystems hardware Oracle inherited when it bought Sun in 2010. It has since discontinued Sun’s SPARC processor but soldiered on with servers running x86-based processors, all of them Intel despite AMD’s…

As technology extends deeper into every aspect of business, the tip of the spear is often some device at the outer edge of the network, whether a connected industrial controller, a soil moisture sensor, a smartphone, or a security cam. This ballooning internet of things is already collecting petabytes of data, some of it processed for analysis and some of it immediately actionable. So an architectural problem arises: You don’t want to connect all those…

Edge computing is gaining steam as an enterprise IT strategy with organizations looking to push storage and analytics closer to where data is gathered, as in IoT networks. But it’s got its challenges. Its potential upsides are undeniable, including improved latency as well as reduced WAN bandwidth and transmission costs. As a result, enterprises are embracing it. Revenues in the edge-computing market were $4.68 billion in 2020 and are expected to reach $61.14 billion by…