Co-authored by Jeremy Witikko, Cisco and Phillip Priestley, NTT Ltd. When your organization is the world’s leading building standards organization, it’s important to lead by example. So when ASHRAE, a global society advancing human well-being through sustainable technology for the built environment, set out to move its Atlanta headquarters to a new location, it decided that building would serve as one of the most secure, innovative, and sustainable workspaces to date. Like buying a home,…

I’ve written extensively about the performance and economic advantages of Cisco UCS servers. Just last year they claimed seven new world-record benchmarks, showcasing ongoing innovation in online analytic processing, Java enterprise middleware, and raw CPU performance. But benchmark tests are conducted in a lab under carefully controlled conditions. What truly matters is how well the servers perform in the real world and how capable they are in supporting multifaceted – and continually changing – business…

We recently announced the launch of our fifth annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, with prize money totaling $1 million USD. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is a competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage technology entrepreneurs solving the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems. Atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory Increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere trap heat, drive up global temperatures, and impact the Earth’s ecosystem. Despite several…

Applications can be thought of as living and evolving pieces of your organization. They are unique, constantly changing and running everywhere. From the time they are written by developers, to being tested, deployed and finally hitting runtime, the application journey leaves room for increased attack surface. Let’s explore how you can you keep yourself at lockstep with securing apps with these three must-dos: 1. Secure the workloads that apps run on Protecting workloads is the…

Coming out of our first-ever Partner Summit Digital, I know our partners must be energized by how much Cisco is doing to help world economies recover from our historic challenges.  The UN General Assembly and the World Health Organization have called the pandemic “the challenge of a lifetime”, but I believe that, embedded within every challenge, is an opportunity, and this is the opportunity of a lifetime for our distributors and partners. Because we have…