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Leading an expert technology team at Cisco, I am always learning and always inspired. This team has a unique vantage point, with its proximity to the customer and its role in advancing innovation, as well as connecting across the whole portfolio to share insights and value. As we look to reimagine and optimize the customer’s entire experience with Cisco, we gain perspective on the architectural trends taking place across the industry, including: Cloud-first, Multicloud,…

Calm seas don’t make great sailors, and the past 15 months have been anything but calm. Yet some organizations have emerged in better shape than others — more agile, more collaborative, better able to adapt to changing business and customer needs. What gives? Why have some firms ridden out the storm and emerged stronger than others? A new study by Forrester Consulting, commissioned by Cisco, sheds light on this and related questions you might find…

After months of rigorous testing, I’m happy to report that Cisco SD-WAN and our Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms Family are now MEF 3.0 SD-WAN certified.   MEF is a global federation of network, cloud, and technology providers working together to empower enterprise digital transformation. Through its members, including Cisco, MEF enables dynamic, trusted, and certified services that empower enterprises to embrace their own digital transformation and grow their business.  In support of the value of company…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, June 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ —                                                     News summary Vodafone selects Dell Technologies to provide edge compute infrastructure for its Open RAN network, starting in the United Kingdom Dell’s global supply chain and open infrastructure to drive Vodafone innovation and offer greater access to businesses and communities across Europe Full story Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) and Vodafone will build Europe’s first commercial Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) network, bringing more broadband access to European businesses…

Secure Network Analytics uses flow telemetry such as NetFlow, jFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and packet-level data and helps in reducing the risk to an organisation. It offers network performance monitoring, behaviour-based anomaly detection and advanced threat detection to deliver network visibility into physical and virtual environments from a single platform. NIST CSF Categories and Sub-Categories IDENTIFY – Asset Management (H/W and S/W inventories; communication and data flow are mapped) [ID.AM-3] The Host Locking feature of Secure…

A startup founded by two MIT grads says that it can deploy self-powering sensors to handle low-intensity IoT tasks, eliminating the need for batteries or power cabling and adding a new level of flexibility to IoT deployments. Ben Calhoun and Dave Wentzloff are the founders of Everactive, an IoT-device startup whose sensor modules can create their own power from a variety of sources, including indoor solar that gathers energy from artificial lighting, and thermal-gradient differential…

Small business owners have a lot on their minds. Trusting that their technology investments are reliable and work properly shouldn’t be one of them. Small business budgets are tight, especially now, during the pandemic recovery. Since they must keep track of every dollar spent—and ensure that they get the anticipated bang for their buck—it’s understandable that they might be swayed by a seemingly lower-cost version of a Cisco product that they found online. Why pay…

Edge computing is transforming the way data is being handled, processed, and delivered from millions of devices around the world. The explosive growth of internet-connected devices—the IoT—along with new applications that require real-time computing power, continues to drive edge-computing systems. Faster networking technologies, such as 5G wireless, are allowing for edge computing systems to accelerate the creation or support of real-time applications, such as video processing and analytics, self-driving cars, artificial intelligence and robotics, to…

When the unexpected happens, it is always good to know how to start investigation. Logs are definitely a valid starting point. They are the well-known and universally adopted approach to track and record events generated by an operating system or software running on top. I need a log file Log files provide a computer-generated list of occurrences, activities and operations on a system, itemized in a temporal order for ease of use. Therefore, logs can…

I’m thrilled to announce that Dev Stahlkopf will be joining Cisco as our new Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer beginning August 2. Dev brings extensive experience to many key issues for Cisco including global geopolitical matters, cross-border data issues, data privacy, intellectual property and immigration reform. Having most recently served as Microsoft’s General Counsel and Corporate Vice President, she also has incredible knowledge in software, large company transformations and a relentless focus on…