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By Atchison Frazer, Category Marketing, Edge Services Platform, Aruba a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. What is the edge? It could be a workplace, a hospital, a large sports stadium, a school, or even a remote worker’s home. In these environments, massive amounts of data are generated by users, devices, and things. Organizations that successfully harness that data – by analyzing and acting on it in real time at the source of the transaction closest to…

“Change is the only constant” is perhaps the most clichéd statement ever. Now imagine in this era of constant change, there’s something that our life revolves around, and yet it hasn’t changed in three decades! Incredible as it may sound, this is true for the basic architecture of the internet. The legacy architecture has multiple layers that have created not only architectural silos but also political silos inside each of the different communication service providers…

Working for a startup is an exhilarating, formative experience – high risk, high reward, and high potential for growth. Now imagine enjoying the best parts of that experience while at Cisco. Over the past few years, I’ve been a part of the transition from what was a startup to what has become Cisco DNA Spaces – the industry leader in Location and IoT Services. It’s been the most exciting and transformative time of my career….

Welcome to our blog series 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. The global Cisco Networking Academy program educates people in critical technology skills like computer networking, cybersecurity, and programming. We license the program for free to learning institutions worldwide. Networking Academy is our biggest and longest-running Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program,…

Nearly every day we can read about “ransomware” holding another organization’s data hostage, shutting their operations down, or disrupting their supply chain. Commercial enterprises. Major utilities. Large healthcare providers. Processing facilities. Even small businesses aren’t safe from being the target of these attacks. The key to preventing your organization from falling prey to ransomware is to keep several steps ahead of hackers. In many cases, the tools you need to protect your data are already…

ROUND ROCK, Texas and STAMFORD, Conn., July 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) to provide high performance storage systems for its production of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, which take place in Tokyo, Japan, from July 23 – August 8. The announcement was made today by Darryl Jefferson, vice president, Broadcast Operations & Technology, NBC Olympics and Jeff Boudreau, president and general manager, Infrastructure…

Our customers are the heart and soul of everything we do at Cisco and each one of them has an interesting story to tell! Our new Q&A series allows us to shine a spotlight on some of our most passionate customer advocates in The Global Gateway community as we learn more about their stories and backgrounds. You may be wondering: What is The Global Gateway? It’s a community for Cisco customers where they can build…

The time between graduation and starting your career comes packed with a variety of emotions: excitement, nervousness, and fear of the unknown. For me, however, I felt at ease – because I had already completed an eight-month placement at Cisco Galway and was offered a chance to return as a Software Engineer once I graduated. I began my Cisco career during my third year at NUI Galway in Ireland, where the college offers the chance…

One of the most powerful engines of business success is operational maturity because of its ability to boost adaptability, resiliency, and agility through automation. That’s according to a Cisco-commissioned conducted study by Forrester Consulting. But no matter how mature your operations are, there will always be challenges. The third installment of the study, Automation Is Not Without Challenges, But They Can Be Overcome, spotlights some of these challenges and how they differ for operationally mature organizations…

If you’re curious about how many packages are installed on your Fedora system or how you can check on them, you might be surprised at how much information you have at your fingertips. With just a few commands, you can find out just about anything you might want know about packages and the repositories they came from. What is a package? To get started, a Linux package is simply a collection of files that performs…