A poem for virtual education heroes of 2020  T’was the last class before Winter Break, and all through educator houses  Computers were shutting down, a rest for keyboards and mouses  We’ve earned a holiday break more than ever, time for lights and for cheer  And time to reflect on what was accomplished this year Educators were warriors, the backbone of support our students needed  Who knew educators could rise to this occasion? No doubt, we did.  Classes looked like never before, lesson plans could not have expected  That soon, Webex would be how…

We know humans like to celebrate. The wedding date represents a significant one for many couples and there is a tradition to celebrate again, even if with less fanfare, upon reaching a specific amount of years together. Apparently originated from an ancient German tradition, there is also a symbolic name to represent how long ago the wedding occurred. For example, the golden wedding indicates 50 years of marriage. Cisco MDS 9000 series and IBM mainframe…

2021 represents a lot of things. Proof of resilience. A new beginning. A fresh start.  Small steps towards a return to normalcy. 2021 gives me hope in the future – a future that’s connected, optimistic  and limitless. And for you, the community, it’s a year of all new opportunities to expand and grow your skills, make automation real, and explore new possibilities with DevNet . Here are five ways you can make 2021 your year…

In a year of unprecedented change, Cisco DNA Spaces helped businesses rise to the challenge. Learn about how the team moved quickly during Covid-19 to help the Cisco customer community build business resiliency with new apps and features for location analytics. As we wrap 2020, I want to reflect on the year gone by and what it meant for us folks at Cisco DNA Spaces. I think we can all agree that 2020 was a…

For the enterprise, applications hold the keys to success, but businesses can’t benefit from applications if they’re down or painfully slow. And unfortunately, a majority of organizations still aren’t meeting their users’ demands for uninterrupted access to applications and data.[1] As a result, organizations lose, on average, US$20.1 million annually through loss of revenue and productivity. And there are many other negative impacts from outages and slow performance, such as erosion of employee and customer confidence…

(2020 – Future) Welcome to the third and final installment in our series looking at the past, present and future of Secure Network Analytics (formerly Stealthwatch). Today, we get to talk about the future.  In parts one and two of this series, we covered Secure Network Analytics’ entry into the market in 2001, its evolution as a product and a company, and how that led to Cisco acquiring Lancope in 2016. Now, it’s time for…