Emmastella Gakuo, cofounder of Savanna Circuit Tech This blog comes from Emmastella Gakuo, cofounder of Savanna Circuit Tech and a trained journalist turned multiple-award-winning entrepreneur, maker, gender advocate, and woman in technology. Her business, Savanna Circuit, provides innovative cooling on transit solutions for value chains in East Africa. Emmastella won the grand prize of the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2020. She will present at Cisco’s Women Rock-IT event on November 19. Click here to…

In this intensely competitive Financial Services market environment, Banks, Insurers, Securities & Exchanges, and Wealth Management institutions, whether a small business or global enterprise, are increasingly challenged to find the optimum balance to minimize workplace disruptions for remote workers and at brick-and-mortar office locations, protect proprietary data, and understand how hybrid cloud operating models will impact business performance. Key considerations include the following: Ways to accelerate digitization of Remote Work and Trusted Workplace Ways to…

As modern cloud-native applications become more pervasive, the environments in which these applications run are becoming thinner (containers, microservices, functions), increasingly distributed and more geographically diverse. Emerging cloud infrastructure technologies give rise to unique implementation challenges as the modern cloud-native application relies on the network to provide application and API connectivity and a runtime platform for an ever-changing cloud topology. Addressing these challenges will drive developer agility and reduce friction so they can focus on…