While it’s exciting to see more organizations start to return to the office, it’s a transition that comes with a new set of questions and challenges as customers evolve to meet the flexible working needs of today.  We know our channel partners will deliver answers and solutions to shape the future of work starting with software and hardware to build a bridge for wherever and however customers need to work. To help accelerate the safe return to…

Some questions may never be answered: Tea or Coffee? Cricket or Baseball? Should I implement segmentation in my application environment with or without an agent? Well, if you’ve ever struggled with that last question, I have some good news for you in this blog. If you study the segmentation products market, you will find a significant bifurcation in approach: segmentation via an agent residing within the workload (e.g., host-based firewalls) or by a device that…

Today’s incident response teams operate like hospital emergency rooms (ERs). When an alert comes in—malware infection, intrusion, anomalous behavior, etc.—a specialist is called in for diagnosis and remediation. In cybersecurity, as in healthcare, good preventive care can improve outcomes and reduce costs. At Cisco,  I’ve been a part of a team responsible for imagining a preventive-care approach to cybersecurity—“cyber hygiene.” Here’s our current thinking on what’s needed. Foundation: a holistic view of digital assets The…

  By Curtis Price, IDC, Program Vice President, Infrastructure Service   Service Provider Digital Maturity Index In 2018, IDC developed the Service Provider Digital Maturity Index to define five levels of SP digital maturity. This index provides a roadmap to help SPs assess the progress of their digital journey versus their desired end state. The development of the Service Provider Digital Maturity Index was driven by IDC’s Service Provider Digital Readiness Survey, which analyzed the…

Moving compute and storage resources to edge locations can reduce latency and bandwidth needs, improve performance and save money. At the same time, widespread edge computing deployments can introduce significant management challenges. Servers can be hard enough to maintain when they’re in an on-prem data center. What if they’re deployed in the middle of nowhere? Energy companies know all too well the challenges of remote computing. “When we drill a well, it’s always in the…

In March and April 2021, CIO held a series of CIO Think Tank discussions—virtual roundtables that brought together 36 IT leaders to unpack one of the most important issues in the enterprise today: IT reinvention. These discussions aimed to identify key issues in reinventing IT to meet today’s rapidly evolving business requirements, and offer a roadmap for IT leadership to overcome practical obstacles. The roundtables were facilitated by John Gallant, Enterprise Consulting Director for IDG,…