John Hodson had been on the job for less than three months when the unthinkable happened. With the pandemic grinding the Western United States to a standstill, the new head of IT for Cheetah, a wholesale food supplier in the Bay Area, had to lay off staff and relinquish the company’s managed IT services. “The restaurant industry basically shut down,” says Hodson. “We went from explosive business growth to extreme contraction in a matter of…

When you think of cloud-based businesses, telecommunications companies may not be the first ones to spring to your mind. They should be. Telecom, thanks to software-defined networking (SDN) and Network functions virtualization (NFV), runs on the cloud. Now, Canonical, best known for Ubuntu Linux, has won a significant customer for its Charmed OpenStack: Leading Russian telecom MTS. With over 80 million mobile subscribers, MTS is a serious player, and the company needed a serious cloud…

I’ve written before about how Cisco Silicon One changes the paradigm of energy consumption and why that matters to the environment and how we’re dramatically more efficient than other 12.8T silicon. As the father of two young children, this is something I spend a considerable amount of my free time fretting over. As an engineer at Cisco, I feel fortunate that I can help control the continued rise of carbon emissions by developing products that…

Dr Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Flurosat This blog comes from Dr Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Flurosat, an Australian agricultural technology company on a mission to commercialize agricultural science for the benefit of people and the environment. Anastasia is a TEDx Speaker, an Amelia Earhart Fellow, and one of 2020’s MIT 35 Under 35 Innovators. She will present at Cisco’s Women Rock-IT event on November 12. Click here to pre-register for and watch this event. The…