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Follow along with our blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow, where we’ll address healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate.  This year has brought unprecedented challenge and opportunity for healthcare organizations as they look to secure their patients, clinicians, care teams, endpoints and data. With the shift to remote work, heightened demand for telehealth and virtual care, and more devices and connections on the network, there has never been a more…

Cisco Blogs / SP360: Service Provider / You Are an FCC RDOF Bid Winner, Now What? Congratulations to the 180 service providers that won FCC reverse auction for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). You are on your way to providing over 10 million rural Americans with access to get high-speed internet service. Phase I of the RDOF auction was set to disperse $16B in funding, but the unprecedented response resulted in $9.2B being awarded…

Lenovo Data Center Group has released new storage and data-management tools designed to boost performance and improve monitoring and analytic capabilities across enterprise systems that span the edge, data center and cloud. The enhancements include a new all-flash storage array with end-to-end NVMe support, an updated cloud-based management platform, and a new fibre channel switch. Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5100F The new Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5100F is high-performance, low-latency, all-NVMe storage at an affordable price point, designed to…

Each year, at the beginning of the year, many people select one word that will guide them throughout the next twelve months. This word will serve as their inspiration and motivation and will become a bit of a mantra for them. I can’t say that in January 2020 I had a word. But as March approached, as we slid into the spring months, carried on through the summer months, and fell into fall – it…

In this installment of our 2021 Networking Trends blog series, we discuss Trend #2 – enabling safe return to on-premises workspaces. Just like many other migrants have attested to, I have experienced the bifurcated longing for two distinctly different cultures, diets, smells, and vistas. Whether moving from one continent to another or one state to another – whenever you are in one – you will likely experience a strong yearning for the other. Likewise, after…

Well, that didn’t take long. Google fixed multiple problems with its services this week but less than a day later network administrators and users started seeing another rash of Gmail problems. Google confessed, “We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users. The affected users are able to access Gmail but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior. We will provide an update by 12/15/20, 5:30 PM [Eastern…

Hot patching and isolating potentially affected resources are on the IT response schedule as enterprises that employ SolarWinds Orion network-monitoring software look to limit the impact of the serious Trojan unleashed on the platform. The supply-chain attack, reported early this week by Reuters and detailed by security researchers at FireEye and Microsoft involves a potential state-sponsored, sophisticated actor gained access to a wide variety of government, public and private networks via Trojanized updates to SolarWind’s…

The mission of all healthcare organizations is to improve patient outcomes — and protecting patients, staff, administrators, and the systems underpinning the organization is paramount. Cisco recently spoke with NHS Management, LLC, in this new webinar to learn how NHS was able to achieve its business outcomes by building a strong security program. It’s been a year that heavily impacted the healthcare industry – arguably, with skilled nursing facilities taking the biggest hit. These organizations…

This blog is part two of a two-part series about the DevNet Specialization, and the journey Cisco partners take to obtain new technical skills and how they are used.  Check out this Cisco Champions Radio podcast to learn more about the DevNet Specialization.  Gain skills in software programmability and automation to your business DevNet Specialization is a program we launched in May 2020 during Cisco Live US. This program recognizes Cisco partners that have demonstrated technical capabilities and…

The 2020 CRN Product of the Year awards are out, and I’m extremely proud to share that Cisco HyperFlex was chosen as the Overall Winner in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) category.  This marks the second consecutive year that our solution partners have voted to make HyperFlex their top choice in the category, and for that we say – thank you!      One award – Two-factor authentication  The CRN Product of the Year awards are unique in that they conducted through a two-step process.  While the editors at CRN start the process by…