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Nearly 70% of the 500 fastests supercomputers in the world as announced at the Supercomputing 20 conference this week are powered by Nvidia, including eight of the top 10. Among them was one named Selene that Nvidia built itself and that debuted at Number 5 on the semi-annual TOP500 list of the fastest machines. With top-end systems requiring 10,000 or more CPUs and GPUs, they are enormously expensive, so government or research institutions own the…

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.  In the past few months, we’ve seen huge shifts in how people are working. This naturally extends to the healthcare industry, where care delivery continues to be a priority, even amidst social distancing and shifts in the workplace. Earlier this spring, the Webex UX Research team conducted an extensive qualitative study…

The author of this blog is Khaled Abuelenain. Khaled is the Consulting Director at Acuative, and a double CCIE (RS & SP). This is Part 3 of the “Introduction to Programmability” series. If you haven’t already done so, I strongly urge you to check out Parts 1 & 2 before you proceed. You will be missing on a lot of interesting information if you don’t. Part 1 of this series defined and explained the terms Network…

Founder and CEO of Modern Health, Alyson Watson This blog post comes from Alyson Watson, the Founder and CEO of Modern Health, a comprehensive mental wellness platform that has raised $42 million to provide mental health benefits to employees around the world. She presented at Cisco’s Women Rock-IT event on November 12. Click here to watch the recording on demand.  We all know 2020 has been a really tough year. Here in the U.S., we’ve faced simultaneous crises…

Huawei offers a combination of technology that is essential for the transformation of global energy companies as they strive to achieve their goals of delivering a greener, more reliable, and more secure energy future. The world’s demand for energy is insatiable. But for energy companies, meeting that need requires them to navigate a series of challenges. Climate change looms large in discussions, creating an ongoing requirement for existing players to invest in low carbon solutions,…

If wireless networking were a middle-school cafeteria, the cool kids would be hanging together at tables called Wi-Fi 6 or 5G. The latest generation of wireless technologies offers much faster download and upload speeds. It slashes latency. In short, it goes well beyond what the current generation can do, either in terms of a single stream of data from a device, or more important in industrial IoT networks to implement higher density of devices and…

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…