When the world’s largest car producer builds their factory in the world’s largest car market, they use the most modern technologies. They don’t produce yesterday’s carbon fueled cars and they certainly don’t depend on yesterday’s networking technology. So when Volkswagen, the world-wide leader in car manufacturing decided to build their new plant in Anting, a town in Shanghai, China, they partnered with SAIC Motor, China’s largest automobile manufacturer, and focused solely on producing electric vehicles…

WeBuyCars was founded in 2001 in a warehouse in Pretoria East by the dynamic brother duo, Faan and Dirk Van der Walt. The business specializes in buying and selling pre-owned cars, and now has the largest showroom in South Africa. Spanning 8 warehouses, 17 regional teams, and 190 buyers, the Van der Walt brothers prioritize immediacy, reliability, and convenience in their business model. The Van der Walt brothers started the car supermarket, WeBuyCars, in 2001…

  My first day at Cisco was in August of 2020 as a Financial Analyst in Cisco’s Leaders in Finance and Technology (LIFT) program. LIFT is a two-year full time rotational program designed for new college graduates to experience working in four different areas of finance, while receiving world class training and mentorship – though our cohort would be starting our journey virtually. I was initially very skeptical of what the virtual onboarding and work…

SD-WAN is the talk of the town these days. And rightly so – it’s a fantastic technology that improves application performance by allowing enterprises to broaden the use of faster, less expensive broadband Internet services in addition to private MPLS connections while delivering superior end user quality of experience. Unlike traditional router-centric approaches, managing WAN connections is extremely simple – and automated – with SD-WAN. This means less time spent executing complex CLI commands and…

The final blog in our 4 part Connected IT Insights series. If this pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that work is not a place you go — it’s something that you do from anywhere. This looks unlikely to change anytime soon. Our customers will have more employees than ever before permanently working in a remote or hybrid capacity. This has profound implications for teams and what IT can do to empower them. When stay-at-home…