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Recently I joined the Cisco DevNet team as a Content Developer Engineer. This is exciting for me, because I have an opportunity to merge the two things that I love most: learning more about network automation and helping the IT community grow within their skills. This year marks 20 years that I have been in information technology. I’ve seen the industry change multiple times, and right now we are in the middle of another major…

As a global citizen, I’m sure you came here to read about Genève (French) or Geneva (English), the city situated in the western part of Switzerland. It’s a city or region famous for many reasons including the presence of a Cisco R&D Center in the heart of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). While this is an exciting success story, the GENEVE I want to tell you about is a different one….

Azure Arc for servers, a centralized management tool that provides visibility into Azure data services, Kubernetes clusters, and servers running Windows or Linux, has been generally available since September, helping fulfill Microsoft’s stated intent to support enterprise hybrid-cloud architectures. By extending Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Arc can help streamline the management of technical resources on premises and in other clouds. ARM is a foundational management service used by a host of Azure tools to…

At Cisco, one of our principles that I really connect with is the idea of giving my very best every day. As a people leader, I take this principle to heart because at Cisco we believe that better leaders make better teams. I will admit, giving my very best as a virtual people leader over the past year has been harder than I ever expected. I find myself starting each day with the best of…

Did you know that Cisco’s most profitable partners are winning larger deals by accessing buying centers outside of IT, and they’re doing this by co-selling with Cisco ecosystem partners? One partner’s lesson learned the hard way A friend of mine, who happens to be a reseller, recently told me he finally understands what I mean when I say partners can win larger deals by accessing new buying centers outside of IT. He shared with me…

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.  What would your life be like without wireless technology? The average household has over 9 Wi-Fi devices and that number is growing rapidly. Smart speakers. Smart lights. Security cameras. Temperature controls. Virtual assistants. The phenomenal growth of wireless networks is driven by the design evolution of powerful personal devices. Wireless technology…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Dec. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces that Matt Baker, senior vice president of Infrastructure Solutions Group strategy and planning, Yvonne McGill, corporate controller and chief financial officer of Infrastructure Solutions Group, and Dennis Hoffman, senior vice president of corporate strategy, will each present at the following virtual conferences during the second week of December: UBS Global TMT Conference 2020Monday, December 7, 202011:05 a.m. CT / 12:05 p.m. ETSpeaker: Matt…

Next Pathway has announced the next-generation of its cloud-migration-planning technology, called Crawler360, which helps enterprises shift legacy data warehouses and data lakes to the cloud by telling them exactly how to cost, size, and start the journey. Data warehouses and especially data lakes can get out of control with poorly managed, siloed data and different forms of structured and unstructured data turning the warehouse and lake into a swamp. Crawler360 addresses this problem by scanning…

Schneider Electric is better known in its native Europe than in the U.S., but it’s looking to change that with a $40 million project to upgrade its U.S. manufacturing resources. The company, which specializes in energy management and automation technologies for data centers, shared its plans for U.S. expansion at its Innovation Summit North America 2020, held virtually this year. Schneider also unveiled a new set of ruggedized data-center enclosures targeting the Industrial Internet of…

Are your users overloading your network with their devices? It’s no wonder. With streaming services, video game systems, virtual assistants, wireless speakers, and other devices it’s a struggle to meet demands of your network users.   Add chatty protocols such as mDNS and UPnP among others—and it just adds to the damage it can do to your enterprise network.  The Cisco User Defined Network (UDN) solution is your savior as it helps you meet the growing demand of proliferation of wireless devices. Announced earlier this summer and already getting strong industry buzz—it was a finalist for CRN’s 2020 Innovation of the Year Award—UDN is available now in North America.   How does it…