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Embracing the Platform Approach for Smart Scaling and Sustainable Growth

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Embracing the Platform Approach for Smart Scaling and Sustainable Growth

Thanks for following along with our blog series on how companies are making operations smoother with Cisco tools like Meraki, Intersight, and Catalyst. Our first post highlighted the shift to the cloud operating model, while the second post showed how AI automation helps IT organizations focus on the big picture. In our final post in the series, we’ll look at how we tackle applying these principles to grow and scale your business without adding more…

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Cisco Industrial IoT: Enabling the global acceleration of offshore wind

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Cisco Industrial IoT: Enabling the global acceleration of offshore wind

Renewable energy technologies now form a key part of the modern electric grid. Most countries globally are investing in renewable energy generation to accelerate the move towards being carbon neutral. The following technologies are now considered mainstream and being deployed at some pace: Onshore and offshore wind Onshore solar farms Onshore battery storage Other renewable technologies are also being researched and developed (e.g. wave, tidal, other storage technologies), and we will start to see more…

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Differentiated Experience with Cisco Catalyst Center and CX Services

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Differentiated Experience with Cisco Catalyst Center and CX Services

Cisco Catalyst Center is a powerful network controller and management dashboard that simplifies customer IT operations in enterprise and campus networks via valuable insights, time-saving automation, and robust security capabilities. To help customers reduce risk and respond to network changes and challenges even faster and more intelligently, Cisco has integrated advanced insights and analytics capabilities from the Cisco Success Tracks service into the Catalyst Center platform. These advanced capabilities enable the platform to securely submit…

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Student-Centric Experience? What's That All About?

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Student-Centric Experience? What's That All About?

As institutions of higher education seek ways to address student retention, they are increasingly turning to technologies that promise more of an “at home” experience, driving greater engagement and security for their users, while being simple and reliable to use. But often overlooked is the network behind it all. When Biola University, a private Christian university in Southern California, sought solutions, they reached out to their friends at Cisco. Today, in part one of our…

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Redefining Network Management: The Advantages of Cisco Managed Campus for MSPs

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Redefining Network Management: The Advantages of Cisco Managed Campus for MSPs

In an era where the digital landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are facing the challenge of keeping up with complex networking demands while ensuring top-notch service delivery. Enter the Cisco Managed Campus—a revolutionary Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solution provided through the powerful Cisco Catalyst platform. This offering is not just a response to the growing needs of modern businesses and their increasingly remote workforces; it’s a leap forward, redefining the very…

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Driving Business Outcomes for a Customer with the Power of Cisco Catalyst Center

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Driving Business Outcomes for a Customer with the Power of Cisco Catalyst Center

In today’s rapidly evolving financial services landscape, technology plays a crucial role in enabling business outcomes. Cisco is at the forefront of these technological advancements. Cisco Catalyst Center stands as a testament to this commitment to innovation, particularly in the application of automation use cases. What is Cisco Catalyst Center With a customer-centric approach, Cisco has been instrumental in transforming financial institutions by helping them achieve key business outcomes. Core to any digital transformation is…

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Digitizing the Physical World: Insights from Cisco Live Melbourne and the Industrial IoT Industry Summit

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Digitizing the Physical World: Insights from Cisco Live Melbourne and the Industrial IoT Industry Summit

A few weeks ago, I attended Cisco Live Melbourne, and it was truly a pleasure to meet and connect with leaders, gain knowledge from customers, and hear speakers from various sectors. I had the wonderful opportunity to speak in an Innovation Talk session alongside one of our very own Industrial IoT (IIoT) customers, Joseph Ozdemir from Mineral Resources Limited. Mineral Resources is focused on innovation in four growth pillars – lithium, iron ore, energy, and…

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Powering up in harsh environments: Five questions to ask before selecting the right industrial PoE switch

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Powering up in harsh environments: Five questions to ask before selecting the right industrial PoE switch

When it comes to cables, less is more. With power over ethernet (PoE), ethernet cables do double duty, carrying DC power as well as data. PoE saves the costs of power supplies, cables, and outlets for devices like access points, cameras, desk phones, digital signage, lighting systems, and now, increasingly desktops and laptops. PoE reduces OpEx by simplifying and centralizing low voltage management as well as reducing the effort needed for installation and powering of…

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Is it time to virtualize your factory floor?

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Is it time to virtualize your factory floor?

Co-authored by Roland Wagner, CODESYS. Virtualization is well accepted in enterprise IT. Creating virtual versions of computing resources such as servers and storage, enables the consolidation of multiple physical resources into a single virtual environment. This allows for more efficient utilization of hardware and better resource management.  The value derived includes reduced capital expenditures, lower maintenance costs, increase flexibility and improved cybersecurity. However, virtualization is not so prevalent in industrial environments. Industrial Automation and Control…

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