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 social and environmental problems. Dream The great abolitionist Harriet Tubman once said, “Every great dream begins with a dreamer.” This is what drives more than 290,000 students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)…

Many Silver Peak SD-WAN customers have adopted Palo Alto Prisma Access cloud-delivered security services. You might be wondering how you can make Silver Peak and Palo Alto work together to take advantage of secure local Internet breakout from your branch or remotes sites to maintain both the performance and security of your business applications. The Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect™ SD-WAN edge platform integration with Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Access cloud-delivered security enables enterprises to shift to a…

There is power in community, and if this year showed us anything – 2020 proved just how powerful our communities are. For me, my community runs deep in family and friends – and, also at work.   Through the team I’m on, Employee/Employer Brand, being a #WeAreCisco ambassador, and the Employee Resource Organizations (ERO) – like Conexion – that I am a part of, I am constantly reminded of the strong sense of community we have…

The networking world is abuzz from, in awe of, and completely enamored by the launch of the Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms Family announced just last month. For those unaware, the Catalyst 8000 transforms the WAN edge by delivering the best of SD-WAN, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), and 5G-ready connectivity across all users, to any cloud, data center or edge location via software or hardware platforms. The true star of Cisco’s intent-based networking portfolio…

Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) is getting a big boost from AIOps as vendors look to simplify operations, lower costs, and optimize WAN performance in the modern cloud era. SD-WAN decouples the control aspect of a network from the hardware to create a virtualized network overlay, while AIOps applies machine learning and data analytics to IT operations to automate processes. The convergence of the two – a.k.a. AI-driven WAN – promises to usher in a new era…