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Back in December of 2019, we made a bold announcement around how we’ll forever change the economics of the Internet and drive innovation at a speed like no one had ever seen before. These were ambitious claims, and not surprisingly many people took a wait-and-see attitude. But in October of 2020, we announced six new devices where we expanded the Cisco Silicon One platform from a primarily routing-focused solution to one which also addresses the…

The Webex for Inclusive Collaboration series focuses on delivering capabilities for the future of work with inclusive, effective collaboration tools Customers Want More Than ‘Good Enough’ At Webex, we believe that our customers demand and deserve more, especially amid the crisis-based time we live in today. That’s why we take the time to ensure that any feature that’s included in Webex adds value, is secure, and improves your productivity so you can get things done….

Cisco Blogs / Partner / Sneak Peek at Exclusive Cisco Live Content I’m looking forward to the end of the month when we’ll TURN IT UP at Cisco Live. While I can’t wait to see all the new Cisco technology that will be announced and how this helps meet our customers’ needs, I’m even more excited about the exclusive content we have planned just for our partners and distributors. Be sure to register for the…

Hadeel Ayoub, Founder and CEO of BrightSign This blog post comes from Hadeel Ayoub, a London-based designer, programmer, and researcher in human computer interactions. Hadeel is the Founder and CEO of BrightSign and the inventor of a smart glove that assists people with hearing impairments to sign and translate with others. Hear how Hadeel’s using technology to change the world at the upcoming Women Rock-IT broadcast on April 22. I was born into a family…

YouMail, an anti-spam call company claims that in 2020 robocalls actually declined by 22% from 2019. I don’t believe it. Mind you, even with the drop, the company claims there were still an estimated 45.9 billion robocalls. That’s an insane number of calls, and I swear many of them went right to my number.  Lots of you just ignore phone calls from numbers you don’t know. As a journalist, I don’t have that luxury. I…

The transition by K-12 schools to hybrid learning environments for engaging students has helped them continue their missions of providing quality education to students, despite the challenges of distance, unexpected sickness or limited resources. But once the pandemic wanes, will teaching and learning “return to normal” and look like it did before the pandemic? With an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine what education can and should look like, now is the time to discuss that question…

Part 1: Top threat categories When it comes to security, deciding where to dedicate resources is vital. To do so, it’s important to know what security issues are most likely to crop up within your organization, and their potential impact. The challenge is that the most active threats change over time, as the prevalence of different attacks ebb and flows. This is where it becomes helpful to know about the larger trends on the threat…

Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or surprisingly complex; it all depends on how much you’re trying to get the script to do. In this post, we look at scripting basics—at how to get started if you have never built a script before. Identifying the shell Unix and Linux systems today have a number of shells that you can use. Each shell is a command interpreter. It reads…

The Webex for Inclusive Collaboration series focuses on delivering capabilities for the future of work with inclusive, effective collaboration tools Connected Devices to Deliver Connected Experiences To say that the world of work is changing at a rapid pace is a bold understatement. A year ago, a statement like this might have been reasonable; however, the speed of which we are seeing the workplace evolve these days is unrivaled. And the speed of innovation required…

Astia is transforming how businesses are funded–providing capital, connections, and guidance that fuel the growth of highly innovative, women-led ventures worldwide. Astia recently launched a $100M early-stage venture fund to address the extraordinary disparity in funding for companies that include women in founding or executive roles. Cisco has invested in early-phase funding to help Astia develop a tech-enabled platform to source and screen companies applying to Astia for investment, and work to remove bias from…