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Celebrating International Girls in ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Day has never been more important. Recent data reveals a startling economic disparity caused by the pandemic – women losing jobs at almost twice the rate of men, leaving 47 million more women and girls around the world below the poverty line. This makes exposing women and girls to the wide range of career opportunities available in IT – the world’s fastest-growing job sector – critical to helping improve the…

I am excited to share with you that Cisco Secure Endpoint (formerly AMP for Endpoints) has successfully completed the 2020 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluation. This round is particularly rewarding because we had to face the difficult challenge of performing well against a set of simulated attacks from the formidable threat actors Carbanak and FIN7. I will not go into the details of our performance in the Evaluation – you can learn about them here instead….

Open source software has been a key underpinning of enterprise IT for years, so it’s no surprise that it’s helping to drive the infrastructure part of the equation forward just as much as application development. Some projects are much more influential than others, and here are five that are doing the most to help enterprise infrastructure keep pace with the demands of an ever-more sophisticated operating environment. OpenStack OpenStack is notable in part for being…

IoT Services Overview Cisco DNA Spaces is the world’s most powerful location platform that uses existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to give actionable insights and drive business outcomes. Cisco DNA Spaces IoT services has been transforming how businesses measure and interact with their environment at scale. Cisco IoT services has brought hardware, software, and services together to digitize spatial data into actionable intelligence. Businesses are planning occupancy monitoring, air quality testing, contact tracing, and in-room presence use…

Each year, around Earth Day, we all put a little more effort into saving our planet. Recycling, reducing and reusing more. For years and year-round, I took small, personal steps to help combat the detrimental effects we were having on our planet and our ecosystem, but I knew it wasn’t enough. I wanted to act on a larger scale, and as a Business Analyst on our Customer Experience team, I knew I could – because…

Cisco Blogs / High Tech Policy / Statement of Chuck Robbins, Chairman & CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc., on Climate Change & President Biden’s … Today our Chairman & CEO Chuck Robbins released this statement: “The Cisco Foundation is proud to commit $100 million over the next 10 years to combat climate change. Corporations, governments and individuals all have a role to play in taking bold climate action, and this commitment is part of Cisco’s purpose…

In today’s IT profession, how important are certifications? Do you need them to do your job, stay relevant, or receive a promotion? Or is on-the-job training enough? Some IT professionals get certifications because they are required, some get them for monetary reasons, and some get them for their own personal growth. At work, it’s a big topic of discussion. Here’s my experience and what I decided. When I began my IT career as a network…

Hot on the heels of its pending spin-off of VMware, Dell is now reportedly looking to sell off its Boomi cloud business for $3 billion. Bloomberg first broke the news, citing people familiar with the matter. Dell is working with a financial adviser on the sale, sources told Bloomberg, and the idea is said to be in the early stages. One thing about Dell, it does not rush these decisions. The VMware spin-off, which has…

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Juniper Networks Manoj Leelanivas Like most of its competitors, Juniper Networks is leaning hard on developing all manner of software components—from automation to intent-based networking—in order to address the changing needs of enterprise-network customers. Moving into the software realm is no small task as Juniper has to integrate products from a number of acquisitions including Mist, 128 Technologies, Apstra, and NetRounds. At the same time it continues to develop its own Junos software and invest…