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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…

Salesforce has acquired collaboration software vendor Slack in a deal worth $27.7 billion. The acquisition — details of which leaked last week — will see Slack’s business chat application integrated with Salesforce’s cloud tools, serving as the new interface for its Customer 360 product portfolio. “Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of enterprise software and transform the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world,” said Salesforce chair and CEO Marc Benioff said…

Webex Edge Connect Our workplace has drastically changed this year and the way we collaborate and communicate is now different. We are relying on collaboration technologies more than ever to get work done, whether we are working from home, in-office or on the go. With millions now using video conferencing tools to collaborate, organizations are faced with overwhelmed networks, and the less-than-optimal meeting experiences. We are helping customers address these new challenges and changing work…

Today everyone wants more and more from their network: more control, more visibility, and more security. And that’s exactly what Riedel Networks intends to give its customers, including the Olympic Games and Formula 1 as well as TV broadcasters and global enterprises. With customers migrating data and applications, the communications networks provider decided to expand its product offerings to include a managed SD-WAN (software-defined networking in a wide area network) offering. Riedel Networks services some…

Cisco Blogs / Security / Threat Research / Xanthe – Docker aware miner By Vanja Svajcer and Adam Pridgen, Cisco Incident Command Attackers are constantly reinventing ways of monetizing their tools. Cisco Talos recently discovered an interesting campaign affecting Linux systems employing a multi-modular botnet with several ways to spread and a payload focused on providing financial benefits for the attacker by mining Monero online currency. The actor employs various methods to spread across the…

Welcome back to our Marketers as Leaders series with our second guest, Jim Kruger, CMO of Veeam. Jim leads a 430+ member global marketing team focused on driving software and secure data adoption. A veteran technology marketing leader with over 20 years of B2B and B2C marketing experience, Jim has a big heart and a passion for connecting with people.   That passion is reflected in Jim’s belief that customer advocacy plays a key role for…

We have created a new blog series that will focus on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Each blog in this series will highlight a different Cisco employee who works closely with CSR initiatives across the company. As a Community Impact Manager at Cisco, Ajay Gopal is dedicated to giving back, supported by the belief that businesses can be a force for good. His continued leadership reflects his convictions within Cisco’s approach to…

Every year, Cisco conducts the Security Outcomes Study (SOS), a fully anonymous survey of over 4,800 active IT, security, and privacy professionals from around the world. Questions are posed around what areas of IT each organization is prioritizing, where they are being successful, and areas of improvement. A plethora of data is collected and then Cisco publishes the annual SOS detailing the analysis. This year, Cisco took it a step further, building out not only…

Yes, summer ended months ago – but, journey back with me for just a (perhaps, warmer) memory. For many, summer camp is a time for outdoor adventure and memories made in canoes and kayaks, swimming with friends, learning how to make knots you’d never think to use, or some kind of woodsy craft. It was a place where summer seemed to last forever.   Many get to experience summer camp growing up, a part of treasured…