Learning from the past What a year it’s been for networking…seems like a bit of an understatement.  It was truly the pop quiz that tested how well our networks could respond to the dynamic needs of the business.   For some, maybe it was smooth sailing and the pandemic proved that your networking investments over the past couple years really paid off.  For others, possibly your network itself held up, but it wasn’t delivering the…

Cisco is honored to win the CRN 2020 Tech Innovators Award for Cisco Secure Access Edge (SASE). This is truly an endorsement to our world class engineering and product management teams in delivering our SASE offer for secured network connectivity at optimized cost with predictable digital experience to any endpoint over any WAN consuming any cloud workload or SaaS.   Why SASE and Why Now? The big disruption is the main stream adoption of enterprise…

Editor’s note: To learn more about securing the manufacturing cell, check out the latest episode of our Manufacturing Leader’s podcast, available now. Take a listen below or listen on our site. A growing problem As we’ve been seeing in many headlines and articles, there is a clear awareness that the manufacturing floor is under attack. There’s a great debate on the tools and methods that should be used in order to protect the manufacturing processes…

One of my favorite sayings from a dear friend of mine is “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes – that way you can begin to understand their experience.” Most of us have heard a simpler version of this idiom, but I think it’s especially poignant today, International Day of Persons with Disabilities – a day to not only increase awareness of what people with disabilities experience, but to honor their experiences and achievements. One…

Since the launch of Business Critical Services (BCS) 3.0 earlier this year, Cisco has continued to expand and enhance the value and monetization of the offer for partners. For example, Cisco has been working closely with partners to build a lifecycle practice that extends their own services on top of BCS 3.0 and creating joint BCS customer opportunities. While I’ve blogged about this initiative in previous posts (A New Paradigm for our Partners with Business…