NETWORKING

As the workplace becomes more disrupted and the workforce more distributed, data and applications need to be accessible from anywhere with both security and optimized performance. Organizations need a secure, agile network fabric to keep everything and everyone securely connected and collaborating. Just in time to meet this new normal of operations, Cisco SD-WAN is playing an outsized role in securely connecting data centers, cloud resources, SaaS applications, and the distributed workforce. Cisco Secure SD-WAN…

Cisco Blogs / Security / Threat Research / Back from vacation: Analyzing Emotet’s activity in 2020 By Nick Biasini, Edmund Brumaghin, and Jaeson Schultz. Emotet is one of the most heavily distributed malware families today. Cisco Talos observes large quantities of Emotet emails being sent to individuals and organizations around the world on an almost daily basis. These emails are typically sent automatically by previously infected systems   attempting to infect new systems with Emotet…

What does it mean to be a marketing leader in today’s world? That’s the question I’ve asked myself—and several of my fellow marketing leaders—over the past few months. In a year that’s brought us a global pandemic, ongoing political and social unrest, numerous natural disasters, and massive shifts to the way we work, learn, and live our day-to-day lives, I expected our conversations to focus largely on agility. After all, 2020 has shown us that…

IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Instana, an application performance monitoring firm. Financial details were not disclosed. Once the acquisition closes, Instana’s technology will be incorporated into IBM’s hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence portfolios – two markets IBM leadership has targeted for high growth in the coming years. To that end, IBM recently said it would spin off the $19 billion Managed Infrastructure Services unit of its Global Technology Services division to help…

Cisco Recognized by Gartner as a Leader for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) We are proud to be named a leader for a repeat year in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS). This is especially significant in this transformative year: When full, integrated collaboration – what UCaaS is all about – becomes vital to the effectiveness and survivability of businesses worldwide. First, I’d like to touch on two…

In this installment of our #2021NetworkingTrends blog series, we discuss Trend #1 – extending security to a remote workforce. Some events are so disruptive that we’re forced to re-think everything.  Often, this is a blessing in disguise.  All kinds of innovation springs out of questions like “is there a better way to do this?” and “should we even be doing this at all?” For instance, many enterprises thought there was absolutely no way their entire…

“If you want to achieve success in whatever you set out to do, you have to start as though you are hand-in-hand with all of creation.” – Keetoowah Cherokee Saying  From an early age, these words were instilled upon me by my dad as enrolled members of the Cherokee tribe – one of over 560 federally recognized tribes – with roots from Indian country in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. There are seven Cherokee clans and I’m from…

Cambridge Consultants is working to deliver the largest airborne communications antenna available commercially. The technology consultancy and product development firm, which part of Capgemini, has built a functioning, scaled-down version of a wireless antenna designed to beam connectivity from the sky. The prototype, announced this month, is part of a four-year project with UK-based start-up Stratospheric Platforms Limited (SPL). SPL is developing a High-Altitude Platform (HAP) and communication system that’s designed to deliver affordable, fast…

A German startup wants to use IoT sensors and a wireless-mesh network to detect forest fires within 10 minutes to an hour of when they start as opposed to the hours or even days it can take using current methods based on thermal imaging, satellite surveillance and human smoke spotters. Dryad Networks is developing sensors to detect gases associated with forest fires and engineering how to network them using LoRaWAN and other wireless technologies so…

As remote work becomes the new normal for many enterprises, collaboration is being tested like never before. And few feel the pressure more than enterprise IT leaders. In addition to delivering performance and reliability, they need to envision how their organizations can use technology to achieve results remotely. They’re searching for an ideal vision of a modern meeting and collaboration experience. What does that look like? A hybrid cloud collaboration platform can provide an attractive…