The How to Develop a Winning Transition Strategy for Enterprise Cloud Calling blog series offers a four-part guided tour on how to take your business to a cloud calling and collaboration future that delivers all the benefits you expect from a quality cloud service. Realizing the Value of Cloud When I was a child, I loved visiting my grandparents’ farm. My grandma had an amazing raspberry patch. She would send us out with a hoe…

Over the last decade, Cisco has been one of the leading pioneers of the IoT megatrend, developing a dedicated IoT and digital transformation solutions portfolio for customers and establishing ourselves as one of the leading corporate investors in IoT. Just in the last seven years, the Cisco Investments IoT team has invested in more than two dozen startups and four venture capital funds and executed three acquisitions to bolster Cisco’s IoT offerings for customers. Thanks…

It was the news that shook the technology world: The founder and CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, was to start his transition away from the day-to-day running of the company and hand the reins to Andy Jassy in October 2021. Jassy’s long history at Amazon Amazon Andy Jassy, newly appointed CEO of Amazon An Amazon guy through and through, Jassy is a nontechnical but detailed and highly competitive executive, seldom resisting a jab at his…

Shangxin Du Technical Marketing Engineer Primary Blog Author: Shangxin Du, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco Systems With the growing complexity of the modern network, automation is becoming more important. NETCONF is one of the widely adopted protocols by networking vendors and customers among all programming interfaces. Alongside NETCONF, YANG provides a powerful, standardized modeling language to complement the NETCONF protocol. In practice, interoperability between service orchestrator and network devices provides flexible mix-and-match solutions based on…

As we look to a new calendar year and the second half of Cisco’s fiscal year, I am very encouraged by our partners’ agility and resiliency to face the global challenges that had to be addressed. As a leader in the Global Partner Organization, I too, feel these challenges and the desire to do all that is possible to assist our partners to reach the goals they want to achieve to create great opportunities with…