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Co-authored by Linda D’Amico, Senior Director, Cisco Refresh Cisco has commitment to 100% product return. This benefits the environment and our customers. The global economy consumes a 100 billion tons of materials each year. Imagine, 100 billion tons, and only 8.6 percent of all those minerals, fossil fuels, and biomass are ever cycled back as new products. Instead, they end up as waste.  In a world with increasingly scarce resources, we cannot keep taking without…

What industries do hackers primarily target for financial gain? Financial services should come as no surprise, but the hospitality industry is up there too. That’s why MITRE Engenuity focused on hacker groups Carbanak and FIN7 in the 2020 ATT&CK® Evaluation. Both groups are well known and launch highly sophisticated attacks against these and other industries, stealing more than $1 billion over the past five years, according to MITRE Engenuity. That’s why we jumped at the…

We live in a data-driven world. Whether B2B or B2C, sellers and go-to-market teams rely on insights from data to target customer accounts, grow pipeline, and close business. When valuable data is siloed or lost in databases and unable to be shared in meaningful ways, business inefficiencies are introduced, customer service can suffer, and the bottom line may be impacted. Cisco Venture Labs, a new division within Cisco that partners with leading analytics and artificial…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — News summary New Dell EMC PowerStore software improves workload performance by up to 25% Artificial intelligence and machine learning enhancements drive cost savings and up to 15% lower workload latency New PowerStore 500 model offers lower cost, enterprise performance to businesses of all sizes Nearly twenty percent of PowerStore buyers are new to Dell Technologies storage Full storyDell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is upgrading the performance of Dell…

What makes a good place to work become a great place to work? Better yet, what makes a company the #1 World’s Best Workplace (two years running)? What makes an employee want to stay, happily, for years – and even decades? There are so many answers to these questions, and for Cisco that is no different. Yes, it’s about our wonderful culture, people-first focus, and dynamic teams. But, for me, the best in all of…

In collaboration with Chris Tomazic   As we plan for a safe return to Cisco offices around the world, we are experiencing a large increase in the types and numbers of devices connecting to our network. This means that our teams need to manage an increasingly complex ecosystem more efficiently than ever before. Like many IT departments, we are scrambling to keep up with these new network demands. In fact, according to one recent study…

The Albuquerque water authority says recent network upgrades give it greater visibility and control over its remote sites and makes for faster responses to leaks and other problems. The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority manages more than 3,000 miles of water-supply pipeline covering more than 650,000 users. The authority manages 135 remote locations, which include well sites, tanks, and pump stations, all of which have programmable logic controllers (PLC) connected to a dedicated, fixed-wireless…

Cisco is offering a new tool that it says democratizes the use of key telemetry streams to help customers more effectively populate analytics applications and efficiently run enterprise network management systems. Telemetry metrics are generated from enterprise resources, such as switches, routers, wireless infrastructure and IoT systems, and used by business and technology applications to monitor trends and help IT respond to threats or react to changing network conditions. As use of monitoring and analytics…

Gartner recently published the 2021 Strategic Roadmap for SASE Convergence, outlining key challenges that are driving shifts to Secure Access Services Edge architecture. Not surprisingly, chief among these challenges are consistency, simplicity, transparency, and efficacy—all of which a properly implemented SASE architecture is positioned to solve. But knowing what the challenges are, how do we then get to SASE? Has your journey already started? What are the right moves? Businesses are now planning their future,…

I used to believe that data and the laws of physics governed everything, even communication. Facts are facts, right? But empathy is just as important: good communication isn’t about the message sent; it’s about the one received. To send a message that will be received the way you intend, put yourself in the audience’s shoes. That hack is relatively simple! I follow the Know Feel Do framework: appeal to the head with the know, appeal…