I am pleased to share some great news! After months of discussion, today networking industry leader Jonathan Davidson is joining our Service Provider Business Unit and my senior leadership team as SVP/GM -SP Networking....
The world is complex and the pace of change is accelerating. New technologies drive innovation and growth. But what happens with that growth? An increasing amount of IT challenges related to managing those support contracts within...
It's easy to understand the value of adoption from the customer's perspective, at least on the surface. But there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. To connect the dots between adoption and value realization as sellers, we mus...
The role of the network has been top of mind lately as another defining moment in networking history is on the horizon. In a nutshell, network engineering must change-again. It changed when voice was added to the network. It...
Yesterday at Google Next, Urs Holzle quoted a great stat by RightScale -users waste 45% of cloud resources that they buy. While this number is not too far from what typically happens in traditional data centers, which operate at 2...
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed over the past week. As with our previous threat round-up, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the ...
As more and more service providers and enterprises invest in Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the fast-evolving and maturing NFV technology poses special challenges for those who are looking to not only perform a proof-of-co...
Hello all, I trust you are all ending the week on a high note. We certainly feel like we did! We are delighted with the interest in the new Cisco RV340 Series VPN Routers. We getting requests worldwide, even here, on our Cisco Bl...
In the stores of tomorrow, phones will replace cashiers. In the fields of tomorrow, connected crops will solve global food challenges. In the factories of tomorrow, connected robots will work together autonomously. This is the nea...
For NYU campuses around the world, protecting data and connecting staff and students is now a reality. Connecting university campuses around the world can be complicated. Critical research needs to be both available and secure....
Wow! OFC is going to be another really great event this year. If you're like me, you already have a busy schedule planned, there are just so many great speakers, sessions, and workshops available to choose from -including some exc...
For many people, learning is best done in the classroom. But what if, either because of illness or geography, a student can't be in the classroom? The next best thing is creating a connected learning environment. At Australia's Op...