Application Hosting on the Catalyst 9100 series access points is a simplified way of deploying IoT infrastructure without the added headache or costs of overlay networks. It enables IoT vendors to integrate their applications directly onto Cisco Catalyst Access Points (APs) and drive intelligence at the edge. With use cases ranging from healthcare and carpeted enterprise to retail and hospitality, Application Hosting is reinventing the way organizations deploy and manage IoT services. We announced Application…

Virtually every week brings news of yet another high-profile cybersecurity attack on citizens, companies or governments. Over the last year, large parts of our world moved online. This unprecedented, large-scale digital migration has also made us ever more exposed to cybersecurity risks. Our security stance has fundamentally changed as the pandemic accelerated the transition of applications. Disruption brought about by the crisis is an opportunity to embed security, not an excuse to skip it. Size…

Have you ever hit the character limit on an Instagram post? I have – and it was all because I was sharing my #LoveWhereYouWork story during the annual #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork contest! From the moment I found out about the possibility of being contracted to work for Cisco as a SocialBridge Agent – and heard about their values and culture, it seriously sounded like a dream job. I thought to myself, “There’s no way a company…

AMD saw another quarter of outstanding growth in sales of its server chips, giving the company its highest single-quarter gain for server CPUs since 2006 and eating into Intel’s most valuable market segment, according to the latest market report from Mercury Research. We’ll get to the desktop segment later, but AMD’s server CPU share grew 1.8 percentage points from Q4 2020 to Q1 2021, from 7.1% to 8.9%. That is astonishing as server numbers just…