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Enterprises can look for more transparency from software vendors after the Biden Administration’s recent mandate that software bills of materials be provided by companies attempting to do business with the federal government. Software bills of materials, frequently abbreviated to SBOMs, aren’t a new concept. The idea comes from the manufacturing sector, where it’s often crucial for buyers to fully understand the components and materials that were used to make a particular piece of equipment. For…

It’s a Monday morning and you’re opening up your laptop to start another week of work. Your weekly team meeting pops up on your calendar and you sigh as you set down your cup of coffee to join the conference call. The usual chatter of “How was your weekend?” naturally transitions into the hottest topic at work – “Are you going back to the office?”. The question of “what’s next?” is a fiery topic for…

This post was written by Jade Wang who participated in our Cisco High STEM Externship program which gives current junior and senior high school students an introduction into Cisco’s history, culture, and the technology industry. It’s 5:15 AM PST when my alarm goes off. I know what you’re thinking, “Why are you starting your day this early during SUMMER BREAK?” It’s a valid question, and even one month prior I would’ve thought the idea preposterous…

Any idea can make a large impact! This is what I’ve seen during my career in Cisco and it’s never been more apparent than within my current team, the I joined this group this past February and the goal of this team is quite simply to innovate and drive digital transformation for our teams, customers, and the overall industry. However, to truly drive innovation and digital transformation we have to build a culture of innovation,…

Cable giant Comcast has extended its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services for consumers to small and midsize businesses under the brand Comcast Business Mobile. Comcast already provides a consumer mobility service called Xfinity Mobile. Verizon and Comcast launched the Xfinity Mobile service in 2017. Like Xfinity Mobile, Comcast Business Mobile offers 4G and 5G coverage from Verizon’s mobile network as well as Wi-Fi hotspots to fill in coverage. The service offers Comcast Business Internet…

First off, CBRS is an acronym for Citizens Broadband Radio Service, and the upshot for IT pros is that it’s enabling enterprises to build their own private 4G/5G networks and result in improved 4G/5G offerings from service providers. Here’s a primer on CBRS—because you are going to want to know about this. CB, as in CB radio? No, good buddy, this has nothing to do with the Citizens’ Band radio service used by truckers for…

IBM continues to fine-tune its mainframe to keep it attractive to enterprise users interested in keeping the Big Iron in their cloud and AI-application development plans. The company released a new version of the mainframe operating system—z/OS V2.5—that includes beefed-up support for containers, AI, and security. According to IBM, applications are at the heart of transactional and batch workloads running on z/OS. Fundamentally, developing new applications while modernizing existing applications is part of the digital…

Xilinx continues to be arguably the most productive chip maker in the Valley with the introduction of the Versal HBM adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP), the latest in its Versal processor portfolio. Xilinx is known as a FPGA company, but the Versal line is so much more than that. Versal is the mashup of many different processor technologies into one die. Of course it has the FPGA programmable logic gates, but it also has Arm…

There is arguably no networking technology surrounded by more hype than software defined WANs (SD-WAN), and much of it is well deserved. A significant number of network professionals either have an SD-WAN deployment underway or on their near-term roadmap. The reason is that SD-WAN architecture is optimized for cloud computing while legacy WANs were designed when client-server computing was the norm. As work-from-home has shifted more apps to the cloud, the adoption of SD-WAN has…

If the past 18 months have taught us anything, it’s that the only constant is change and the future is uncertain. According to McKinsey research, companies report that one month or more of disruptions occur every 3.7 years, resulting in losses worth almost 45 percent of one year’s EBITDA over the course of a decade. Organizations need to be adaptive to this change and attain true business resiliency—the ability to withstand, adjust, and thrive in…