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“Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.” The Star Trek fans amongst our readers may well recognise that Spock quote.  And it’s a line that I thought of whilst I was chatting to my latest guest on the Security Stories podcast, Gabriel Gumbs, Chief Innovation Officer at Spirion. Gabe’s role is to lead the charge on where data security is going next, including how organizations…

Part 1: In the Beginning (2001-2011) Secure Network Analytics (formerly Stealthwatch) was recently recognized as the industry leader in Network Detection and Response (NDR). This product journey began in 2001, and through the years, we have had to innovate to remain a leader. Yes, I said 2001. A time when we were still imaging machines from optical drives, Windows XP had just shipped, before the social media boom and maybe even before some of you…

Over the past few years, I’ve worked in many amazing areas within Cisco, spanning Systems Engineering, Sales, IoT, and Digital Transformation. Today, I’m supporting our Partners in developing and enhancing their customer success practices. And with my new role,  I’ve taken up a new challenge: how to help partners drive attach, upsell, and renewal of our support service offers and grow their businesses. As I transitioned to my new role, the first thing that stood…

If you asked our customers and partners what their most important asset is these days you’d get a variety of answers. Everything from infrastructure to real estate to mission-critical applications. To Bell Canada, one asset you can’t overlook is your people. Their philosophy is investing in people will always pay positive dividends. While investing in people may seem like common sense, Bell has taken this to the next level and has streamlined and optimized the…

John Hodson had been on the job for less than three months when the unthinkable happened. With the pandemic grinding the Western United States to a standstill, the new head of IT for Cheetah, a wholesale food supplier in the Bay Area, had to lay off staff and relinquish the company’s managed IT services. “The restaurant industry basically shut down,” says Hodson. “We went from explosive business growth to extreme contraction in a matter of…

When you think of cloud-based businesses, telecommunications companies may not be the first ones to spring to your mind. They should be. Telecom, thanks to software-defined networking (SDN) and Network functions virtualization (NFV), runs on the cloud. Now, Canonical, best known for Ubuntu Linux, has won a significant customer for its Charmed OpenStack: Leading Russian telecom MTS. With over 80 million mobile subscribers, MTS is a serious player, and the company needed a serious cloud…

I’ve written before about how Cisco Silicon One changes the paradigm of energy consumption and why that matters to the environment and how we’re dramatically more efficient than other 12.8T silicon. As the father of two young children, this is something I spend a considerable amount of my free time fretting over. As an engineer at Cisco, I feel fortunate that I can help control the continued rise of carbon emissions by developing products that…

Dr Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Flurosat This blog comes from Dr Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Flurosat, an Australian agricultural technology company on a mission to commercialize agricultural science for the benefit of people and the environment. Anastasia is a TEDx Speaker, an Amelia Earhart Fellow, and one of 2020’s MIT 35 Under 35 Innovators. She will present at Cisco’s Women Rock-IT event on November 12. Click here to pre-register for and watch this event. The…

A data center is a physical facility that enterprises use to house their business-critical applications and information. As they evolve, it’s important to think long-term about how to maintain their reliability and security. What is a data center? Data centers are often referred to as a singular thing, but in actuality they are composed of a number of technical elements. These can be broken down into three categories: Compute: The memory and processing power to…

The underlying technologies that support a cutting-edge enterprise telecom solution like software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) are indeed complex. But that doesn’t mean your deployment of the networking solution in itself has to be labyrinthine and unmanageable. By working alongside a versatile managed services provider (MSP) and with proven third-party vendors, you can ensure that your organization enjoys all of the advantages of SD-WAN’s major network performance enhancements. Simultaneously, observing industry-recommended best practices will keep you from getting bogged…