The Murray School District in suburban Salt Lake City is using private LTE to keep 6,000 students connected to their classrooms, as mandated remote schooling continues through the COVID pandemic’s late stages. The district had been looking for a private LTE system to provide reliable connectivity for homework and remote classes since 2016, having identified a real digital divide in its student body. Home Wi-Fi or public cellular data connections didn’t always provide enough bandwidth…

Ransomware is more dangerous than ever before. Why? It’s partly because successful attacks don’t just affect the victim anymore. Take the Colonial Pipeline attack as an example. As reported by Reuters, the ransomware infection didn’t just disrupt the flow of fuel to cities directly served by the Colonial Pipeline. It also caused panic buying of gasoline in cities like Miami and Tampa—locations that don’t rely on the pipeline for fuel. Such activity drove up the…

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.  – Leonardo da Vinci For IT, complexity is the antithesis of agility. However, with the increased demand for remote healthcare, distance learning, hybrid work, and surging dependence on online retail, there is an urgent shift to hybrid and cloud-native applications to keep up with the necessary digital transformations—thus adding complexity. Hybrid cloud is now the reality for nearly all enterprises. Workloads are distributed across on-premises, edge, and public clouds. However,…

At DevNet Create last week, our community shared over 150 technical sessions for network and cloud developers. We had sessions for people just starting out, for app designers, for API creators, and for infrastructure operators. It was a great lineup. You should definitely browse the full line up to find sessions that match your interests. That said, I want to focus on 10 essential talks I think everyone should see. You’ll see a heavy representation…

Cost-efficiencies. Scalability. Mobility. Flexibility. These attributes of the cloud were driving adoption by organizations in every industry even before Covid-19 hit. Then, with challenges such as strained supply chains, stay-at-home orders, and an emerging new hybrid work reality, cloud adoption went into overdrive, spurred by renewed digital transformation priorities. In response to the pandemic, 61% of IT leaders planned to accelerate their digital transformation efforts, according to the 2020 IDG/CIO Covid-19 Impact study.  The cloud…

WOW – what an amazing event WebexOne turned out to be! With over 57,000 registrations, amazing keynotes, and impactful breakout sessions, we earned accolades across the board. Let me extend a big, “Thank you,” to all our partners for your attendance, participation, sponsorship, and support in driving customer registrations. This event would not have been made a success without you. Thank you! For me, the incredible pace of Webex innovations that has taken place this…

Wireless connections are ubiquitous and have become a part of our daily lives. But planning and then maintaining a Wi-Fi network, optimized for today’s radio coverage and capacity requirements, may not be a daily or even yearly task for an otherwise seasoned network administrator. While Wireless technologies are ubiquitous, they still interact with the physical environment.  Architecting the best coverage for a specific environment depends on many different factors like obstacles (walls, doors, windows), building…

Organizations have increasingly embraced the Internet, cloud, and SaaS as part of their network infrastructure.  While this new trend has enabled organizations to achieve new efficiencies in terms of agility, scale, and cost savings, it brings additional complexity. Network and IT teams are now consistently challenged to deliver application performance over networks they don’t have direct visibility nor control. Lack of network visibility severely hinders the ability to manage increasingly complex network environments. Application issues…