Visibility is a key to success across a wide range of disciplines. If you’re a basketball fan like me, you know that visibility is important when a player makes an alley-oop pass to his teammate in an NBA game.  It’s even more important for high-risk operations like landing an aircraft in the fog. Now imagine how essential visibility is for securing a manufacturing site. When you can’t see what’s happening on your network, keeping your…

Now that the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021 winners have been officially announced, we are excited for you to learn more about each winning team and the story behind each innovation. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is an annual competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage tech entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems. Now in its fifth year, the competition awarded its largest prize pool ever, $1 million USD, to 20 winning teams from around the world. This…

(Editor’s note: EMA has published “Revolutionizing Network Management with AIOps,” a report based on a survey of 309 network infrastructure and operations professionals who have experience with applying AIOps to network management. This article by EMA Vice President of Research Networking Shamus McGillicuddy further details the results of that report.) Enterprise network infrastructure and operations teams are increasingly recognizing the value of applying AIOps to network management, according to new market research from Enterprise Management…

Ask 50 CXOs what the key to business success is, and you’ll likely get 50 different answers. But according to a Cisco-commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, success has a lot to do with how you answer this question: How adaptable, resilient, and agile are your operations? Or, to use Forrester’s term, how mature are your operations? Mature operations lean heavily into automation. Advanced automation is inextricably linked to an organization’s ability to be agile, collaborative,…

Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the Global 2000 and Fortune 1000 are obsessed with protecting the workforce endpoints as critical vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity and risk management posture of their enterprises. CISOs focus on cybersecurity controls that operate mostly transparently and are focused on mitigating the potential risks to the computing infrastructure’s susceptibility to being breached as a result of actions taken by users, such as clicking on a malicious hyperlink in an email,…