To say we’re witnessing a revolution in healthcare today is an understatement. Between telehealth, 5G expansions and business intelligence analytics—the pace of pandemic-led change has been rapid and will not be slowing anytime soon.   Longtime Cisco customer CVS Health was on a digital transformation path long before any of us had heard of COVID-19, and this week I am thrilled that MinuteClinic, the medical clinic inside select CVS Pharmacy locations will be honored…

As TSMC charges to 5nm transistor designs and Intel struggles for 7nm, IBM has topped them all with the world’s first 2-nanometer node chip. OK, it won’t come to market for four years, according to IBM, and they might not be the first name that comes to mind when you think of processor design, but they are the quiet power in the semiconductor world. As far as commercial chips go, IBM makes two: the Power…

As the enterprise edge expands to include semi-permanent remote workforces, IoT, and a range of applications like AI and M2M, they generate torrents of nonstop data that must be stored indefinitely and be available in near-real-time to users and applications. Legacy storage architectures are failing to keep up with both data growth and user/application demand. While storage innovation is pushing more workloads into the cloud, many startups have found that the average enterprise is not…

In collaboration with Vishal Gupta   In a recent blog, my colleague Travis Norling described Cisco IT’s motivations and processes for shifting to a software-defined access (SD-Access) fabric network – part of our ongoing journey to an advanced network architecture. In this blog, I will explain the value framework we created to measure SD-Access’s impact, along with outcomes achieved to date. As SD-Access was deployed across six buildings on Cisco’s San Jose campus, Cisco IT’s…

With revenue having plummeted in 2020, sports clubs aren’t poised to simply make a comeback to pre-pandemic levels. Some forward-looking organizations are preparing for explosive, mind-boggling growth. Here’s how. Redefining an immersive, inclusive fan experience After a year of social distancing—and the forced digitization acceleration that accompanied it—consumers of all kinds have shifted the way they consume, and expect to consume, content. Sports fans are no different. After watching from their couches, fans expect the future…