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Author: Joe Weiss. Editor: Nicki Vereschagin   In January of 2020, retailers around the world assembled in New York for NRF to see the latest and greatest in technology solutions to help enhance the guest experience in their retail stores. Most retailers were not aware of how their strategy would need to change and adapt in the coming months as the world changed in the blink of an eye. At Cisco we have seen a massive…

I’ve been a Mozilla‘s Firefox browser fan since it was a beta. Starting in 2004, it was my favorite web browser. That wasn’t just because it was open-source, but because it was so much better and more secure than Internet Explorer. Things have changed. The browser itself is still good, but fewer and fewer people use it. And The Mozilla Foundation appears to be getting in deeper financial trouble In Mozilla’s 2019 annual report, Mozilla…

As the SD-WAN enterprise customers increase their consumption of business-critical applications from cloud or directly as SaaS over the Internet, there is a growing need for on-demand SD-WAN extension to the cloud or SaaS of choice. Cisco has partnered with AWS, to deliver Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp to extend our SD-WAN fabric to AWS workloads. As our customers transition their workloads to AWS, Cisco continues to build on this partnership to accelerate our customer’s SD-WAN…

Native CloudEOS integration with AWS Transit Gateway Connect designed to lower costs, accelerate deployments, and simplify end-to-end segmentation SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced enhancements to Arista CloudEOS™, providing native support for AWS Transit Gateway Connect. The integration of CloudEOS with AWS Transit Gateway Connect enables enterprise networks to cost-effectively and easily connect Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enterprise campus, branch, cloud, and data…

First – THANK YOU for joining us at WebexOne – our premier, digital, collaboration event. What an amazing two days we just had – from revealing the all-new Webex, to hearing performances from Broadway Cares, to learning how much RuPaul loves Webex! But the best part of it all was the participation from our customers – more than 20 customers joined us to tell their stories and showcase the real-world innovations that happen with Webex!…

Public cloud infrastructure led by industry leaders such as AWS will continue to play dominant roles across the IT industry for the foreseeable future. According to the IDC Research report “Worldwide Whole Cloud Forecast, 2020–2024”, global cloud revenue for hardware/software/support going to reach $180.7 B by 2024 up from 106.8 B in 2019, a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11.1%. “By the end of 2021, based on lessons learned in the pandemic, most enterprises…

The Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I Auction Procedures Public Notice, published on May 19, 2020, requires winning RDOF bidders to complete a Long Form Application (FCC Form 683), including a detailed technology and system design plan. The plan is intended to explain how the design and technologies that the winning bidder has chosen will meet the relevant performance requirements they have guaranteed in making their bid, including information regarding quality, coverage, voice service, network…

Today, December 10, marks International Human Rights Day – the anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s 1948 adoption of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), setting out fundamental human rights that must be universally protected.   As a supplier of the infrastructure that connects much of the world, Cisco bears responsibility to make sure we are designing our products to enhance the ability of all people to enjoy the rights reflected in the UN Declaration. Respecting human rights is not only the right thing to do, it’s also good…

In this new world of working and home schooling two little ones under the age of four, I have come to the realization that learning is a never ending journey.  Among the multiple methods now available for my children’s education, we selected one based on three core elements: self-directed activities, hands-on learning, and collaborative play. The principle of this method is that each child decides what they want to learn, while the classroom and the…

The business, application and infrastructure landscape has been changing rapidly over the last few years and even faster this year. Gone are the days where a handful of monolithic applications were running in a single datacenter fully managed by a central team – simpler days.  IT teams are now required to use a diverse set of environments, distributed technologies, architectures, platforms and tools to manage the critical IT resources required to keep their apps running…