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Throughout 2021, Cisco Financial Services will continue to examine how ‘Connect, Secure, and Automate’ – our strategy for helping customers accelerate their digital agility – enables financial institutions to deliver digital-first customer engagements that capitalize on a hybrid work operating model. This week we welcome Anthony Cresci, VP of Business Development and Operations at Theta Lake for a short Q&A on a key topic for operational risk and security leaders – ensuring regulatory and audit…

Welcome to my first blog as leader of the new Partner Managed and as-a-Service team! I have had the pleasure of working with many of you in our partner community over the years. My team is focused on improving the end-to-end engagement model for how provider partners build, sell and scale their managed services based on Cisco’s industry-leading technology, and on accelerating Cisco’s delivery of as-a-service experiences. Today, I am eager to share where we…

Meraki has more than 300 API requests in its arsenal. That means network engineers, software developers, and essentially anyone interested in automating their networks have the best and the most useful APIs ready for use. And all this with their awesome interactive API docs. DevNet offers you a dedicated learning track to help you get started with Meraki APIs. Now, this year at Cisco Live, I would like to introduce you to a more intermediate…

Recently, I weighed in on what I see as a critical choice for higher education. Either, universities can slowly abandon hybrid learning as the threat of COVID-19 wanes, or double–down on technology infrastructure – moving boldly into the future of higher education.   Of course, my recommendation is the latter, believing that institutions that embrace tech transformation will thrive in the coming decades. And the closer we move toward the reality of a post-pandemic world, the more the gravity of that choice comes home.   Seeing the Future of Hybrid Learning   It’s not often that leaders of an industry are given this much foresight – and thus power – to enact change. While the hardships COVID-19 inflicted on students, faculty,…

I am excited today to share details of Cisco taking a huge leap forward in hybrid cloud automation that brings the key benefits of infrastructure as code (IaC) automation for IT Operations. What we are announcing is the availability of Cisco Intersight Service for HashiCorp Terraform, a new integrated solution and commercial offer, that resulted from our ongoing partnership with HashiCorp. IaC automation has been popular for managing workloads in public clouds and by DevOps….

Cisco and NetApp have been partnering to create trusted and versatile FlexPod converged infrastructure for more than a decade now. Many of our close to 10,000 customers continue to tell us that FlexPod is ideal for applications with requirements in areas such as compliance, data sensitivity, and latency. Customers tell us they like FlexPod because it offers a platform that supports excellent application performance, while keeping costs low and providing high availability and disaster recovery….

Network telemetry is a reservoir of data that, if tapped, can shed light on users’ behavioral patterns, weak spots in security, potentially malicious tools installed in enterprise environments, and even malware itself. Global threat alerts (formerly Cognitive Threat Analytics known as CTA) is great at taking an enterprise’s network telemetry and running it through a pipeline of state-of-the-art machine learning and graph algorithms. After processing the traffic data in batch in a matter of hours,…

It’s official: Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky is returning to AWS to take over as CEO when Andy Jassy takes the top job at Amazon later this year. This is a surprising outcome, as many observers expected an internal hire to be made to replace Jassy, with the likes of AWS sales and marketing chief Matt Garman or senior vice president Charlie Bell the frontrunners. Selipsky left AWS to take over as CEO of the analytics…

If you’re like me, this last year has left me with an odd sense of time – where the 2020 lockdown seems both like yesterday and a decade ago. We all know how challenging it has been to balance work, life, families, and more. I’ve been fortunate to be in an industry that has made a real impact across all those vectors. We’re seeing IoT deliver increased business resiliency, better jobs, improved working conditions, increased…

Many CIOs and IT professionals are feeling between a rock and hard place right now, battling the disruption caused by the global pandemic while facing immense pressure to accelerate their digital journeys. Yet out of the crucible of these opposing forces, remarkable opportunities have emerged, along with new learnings and new innovations. I recently had the pleasure of moderating a roundtable discussion with the CIOs of three large customers. I also spoke with two of…