By Atchison Frazer, Category Marketing, Edge Services Platform, Aruba a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. What is the edge? It could be a workplace, a hospital, a large sports stadium, a school, or even a remote worker’s home. In these environments, massive amounts of data are generated by users, devices, and things. Organizations that successfully harness that data – by analyzing and acting on it in real time at the source of the transaction closest to…

“Change is the only constant” is perhaps the most clichéd statement ever. Now imagine in this era of constant change, there’s something that our life revolves around, and yet it hasn’t changed in three decades! Incredible as it may sound, this is true for the basic architecture of the internet. The legacy architecture has multiple layers that have created not only architectural silos but also political silos inside each of the different communication service providers…

Working for a startup is an exhilarating, formative experience – high risk, high reward, and high potential for growth. Now imagine enjoying the best parts of that experience while at Cisco. Over the past few years, I’ve been a part of the transition from what was a startup to what has become Cisco DNA Spaces – the industry leader in Location and IoT Services. It’s been the most exciting and transformative time of my career….

Welcome to our blog series on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Each blog in this series will highlight a different Cisco employee who works closely with CSR initiatives across the company. The global Cisco Networking Academy program educates people in critical technology skills like computer networking, cybersecurity, and programming. We license the program for free to learning institutions worldwide. Networking Academy is our biggest and longest-running Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program,…

Nearly every day we can read about “ransomware” holding another organization’s data hostage, shutting their operations down, or disrupting their supply chain. Commercial enterprises. Major utilities. Large healthcare providers. Processing facilities. Even small businesses aren’t safe from being the target of these attacks. The key to preventing your organization from falling prey to ransomware is to keep several steps ahead of hackers. In many cases, the tools you need to protect your data are already…