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Two recent FCC decisions will dramatically increase the capabilities of new Wi-Fi systems in the coming year, providing badly needed breathing room to the unlicensed wireless world. The first allocation, announced in April, will throw open the entirety of the 6GHz spectrum range for unlicensed use, and the second, rolled out late last month, adds a small but critical amount of spectrum to the 5GHz band. Both of these decisions are important to future Wi-Fi…

The following is an excerpt from the 2020 CSR report. 2020 has been a year unlike any we could have imagined. The successive battles of COVID-19, the resulting economic contraction and job losses, issues of systemic racism and inequities, natural disasters, and many more factors remind us of the challenges we face as a society. Businesses around the world realize we have a much larger role to play in helping to solve some of these challenges—now…

As I’m sure you’ve seen this year, nothing is set in stone in a world of VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. In this challenging environment and an ever more competitive business landscape, how can companies change to stay ahead? This question has been much on my mind recently, not least because October 2020 saw Cisco hold its first all-digital version of our annual Partner Summit. With Future Ready as its theme, the event…

A range of Google services, including Gmail and Google Docs, were unavailable to customers for more than a half hour Monday morning due to an outage. The services have now been largely restored and are available for most users, Google said. Users across the world were unable to access the gamut of Google’s productivity and collaboration tools, which also include Google Calendar, Sheets, Meet and Chat. Customers in Europe appeared to be the hardest hit,…

When it bought Cray back in May 2019, HP Enterprise hinted at offering HPC systems as a service. Now it is delivering on that with the introduction of HPE GreenLake cloud services for HPC. HPE has made a lot of headway with its GreenLake program, the pay-per-use model created in response to the popularity of cloud service providers. It lets customers pay as if they are buying a cloud service, but it’s provisioned using infrastructure…

Digital Experience is the Brand We live in a world where customers expect a digital experience. That experience makes or breaks brands today. According to The App Attention Index, people today are far less tolerant of problems with digital services than they were just two years ago, and they’re now far more likely to take decisive action – deleting apps, turning to the competition, and sharing their negative experiences far and wide. The index gives…

When it comes to managing hybrid and multicloud environments there are many options but no easy path nor lack of challenges. While cloud computing has been around in some form for more than a decade, tools to manage its current enterprise iterations from private, on-premises, or public locations are still evolving at a rapid rate. Gartner says that more than 90 vendors—including IBM/Red Hat, VMware, CloudBolt, Flexera, Scalr, Cisco, and Nutanix—offer varying degrees of cloud-management…

Fear of the cloud has evaporated. Instead, most companies now use at least several public clouds, from AWS to Azure to Salesforce to Slack. Hence the ascendance of the term “multicloud,” which now encompasses not just the management of IaaS and SaaS clouds, but also private clouds of virtualized on-prem resources. The low barrier to entry of the cloud has been both a blessing and a curse. The ability to simply open a cloud account…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between December 4 and December 11. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics, indicators of compromise, and discussing how our customers are automatically protected from these threats. As a reminder, the information provided for the following threats in this post is non-exhaustive…

At Cisco, we believe that effective security depends on top-of-the-line visibility. The rise of XDR has sparked more investment into the areas that comprise this emerging market category – Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), and Network Detection & Response (NDR). Secure Cloud Analytics is an NDR market leader and continues to grow as customers demand better threat detection, more comprehensive public cloud visibility, and more integrated response tactics to address their critical alerts. At our…