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Webex Awarded Best in Class The year is off to an amazing start for us at Webex with the news of winning Trustradius Awards for Best Feature Set, Best Usability, and Best Customer Support. As we wrapped up 2020, we introduced the all new Webex, which included dozens of innovative updates, so we are excited to see the great response. In the Video Conferencing category, Webex Meetings earned 1st in Best Feature Set, as well…

We have heard it before. Securing your organization isn’t getting any easier. The remote workforce is expanding the attack surface. We need context from users and endpoints to control proper access, and IT teams need to ensure our data stores are resilient and always available to gain the telemetry they need to reduce risk. Yes, zero trust is a great approach, but network segmentation in the workplace is hard, and it can shut down critical…

The following is an excerpt from the 2020 CSR Impact Report. Circular design is fundamental to our ability to implement a circular economy, both now and into the future. Our circular design strategy spans five focus areas, which address our most material impacts. In fiscal 2020, guided by this framework, we developed Circular Design Principles, allowing us to make progress toward several of our product and packaging goals: Material use: Incorporate recycled content into our products,…

Today’s model-driven programmability makes the network a core foundation for revenue generation. Therefore, companies must implement network orchestration to simplify their entire lifecycle management for services. For virtualized networks, this means transparent orchestration that spans multiple domains in the network and includes network functions virtualization (NFV), and software-defined networking (SDN), and the traditional physical network with all its components.    This is where Network Service Orchestration or NSO steps up. NSO is a model-driven (YANG) platform for automating your network orchestration. It supports multi-vendor networks through a…

Congratulations to the Cisco leaders on the 2021 CRN Channel Chiefs List CRN just announced its picks for their 2021 Channel Chiefs List. Just like last year, Cisco placed several leaders on the list for 2021. In case you’re not familiar with CRN, it is a leader in IT channel partner and service provider news. They annually highlight leaders within the partner world who demonstrate making partners a priority. The Channel Chiefs list always recognizes leaders…

Today, I’m excited to talk to you about how Cisco partners make more money, increase profits, and win with a focus on selling software. Of course, software has been a core part of our business and yours for quite some time. But today, we’re leveraging the power of the Cisco portfolio to offer transformative software licensing agreements and buying programs that will help you transform and become a best-in-class software-centric business. Best-in-class partners drive growth…

Throughout the past year, we’ve heard a lot about recovery and support for small businesses. Large enterprises are shifting their priorities to longer-term business resiliency. But for the organizations in between – not quite large and not quite small – the past year has also had a significant and unique impact on business goals and IT investments. How are midsize companies different? The emphasis on midsize businesses is an important one, as business goals and…

Even as the overall US economy struggled in January — adding just 6,000 private sector jobs and 49,000 jobs overall — the seasonally adjusted IT job growth last month was 18,200, according to the latest figures from IT employment consultancy Janco Associates. The past two months saw 55,000 new IT jobs, revised up from the 18,000 total reported a month earlier, based on revisions from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Still, compared to January…

While Cisco may not be a cloud provider, we are a trusted, cloud-agnostic technology partner that has been enabling and empowering customers to expand to all their clouds with the reliability, security and scalability you can only expect from Cisco. We have a broad portfolio of application-to-infrastructure solutions that help our customers see, manage and simplify their multicloud environments.   Reinforcing what we already knew, CRN recently named Cisco one of the 100 Coolest Cloud Computing…

Prior the pandemic, you could ask a dozen people what “the future of work” meant and get 13 different answers. Some insisted it was about distributing discrete responsibilities among two-pizza teams, while others preached about robots eliminating jobs and the need for universal basic income as compensation. Then COVID-19 pressed the fast-forward button, and we learned about the immediate, practical future of work in a hurry. The most obvious lesson – you don’t need to…