Cisco Blog > Corporate Social Responsibility
March 21, 2012 at 9:00 pm PST
“Roughly one-sixth of the world’s population, or 1.1 billion people, don’t have access to safe drinking water.”
“Eighty percent of diseases in the developing world are caused by contaminated water.”
“People in the developing world walk an average of 3.7 miles (6 km) a day to collect water for basic needs.”
These are just a few of the shocking statistics I discovered in the past week on Twitter, leading up to World Water Day--today, March 22.
But, I also discovered that by making a birthday wish, I could personally help solve this massive problem.
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Tags: Cisco CSR, corporate social responsibility, critical human needs, CSR, impact multiplied, Water, world water day
March 21, 2012 at 9:00 pm PST
March 22nd is World Water Day, and water focused nonprofits around the world will bring to your attention that nearly one billion people on our planet still live without access to life’s most basic need: clean, safe drinking water.
These organizations need to capture your attention, access your network, and earn your dollars. Cisco supports many nonprofits with the shared mission of clean water (learn more here), but one specific organization caught my eye today, charity: water. Read More »
Tags: birthday, cause, charity: water, nonprofits, padmasree warrior, social media, Water, world water day
Today from CiscoLive in Melbourne Australia, Cisco announced Video Surveillance for UCS.
The word from down under is “hyper-scalable” with support for tens of thousands of cameras with increases of up to 1,000 percent with the modular UCS platform versus dedicated server solutions.
Cisco Video Surveillance helps public sector organizations transform the way they protect people, property and critical infrastructure
Cisco Video Surveillance on Unified Computing System also delivers:
- Rapid provisioning from 8 weeks to 15 minutes
- Reduced infrastructure costs, faster disaster recovery and deployment, reduced staffing needs and cooling costs
- Improved performance, scalability, agility and manageability
Read this whitepaper to see more examples for how video apps can also help government agencies stretch budgets and reduce costs.
If you didn’t get a chance to visit Australia, perhaps next year. Here’s some nice photos from the CiscoLive show floor.
Tags: Cisco, Cisco cloud, Multi-Tenant Data Center Architectures, physical security, Public Safety and Security, UCS, UCS Express, Urban Security, video surveillance, Virtualized Security
Networks and applications have become increasingly complex as new rich media applications and networking technologies have been adopted. Today, organizations rely so heavily on their networked infrastructure, it is imperative to move beyond reactive management techniques of old and assume a more proactive approach by instituting scalable performance management. Medianet introduces monitoring capabilities embedded with router and switches. The IOS Performance Monitor feature enables pervasive monitoring across your infrastructure so in the event of quality issues, there is a way to identify where and what the problem is.
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Tags: business video, Cisco Prime Assurance Manager, medianet, network management, performance monitoring, rich media applications
• Cisco Video Surveillance helps public sector organizations transform the way they protect people, property and critical infrastructure
o Urban security, city surveillance, national security, critical infrastructure, and large public events
o Disaster recovery and first responder
o Safe and secure colleges and universities
• Hyper-scalable (tens of thousands of cameras), hyper-flexible
• Rapid provisioning from 8 weeks to 15 minutes
• Reduced infrastructure costs, faster disaster recovery and deployment, reduced staffing needs and cooling costs
• Improved performance, scalability, agility and manageability
Check out some photos from the live event in Australia!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28952761@N05/sets/72157629272455126/
Tags: Cisco, Cisco cloud, Multi-Tenant Data Center Architectures, physical security, Public Safety and Security, UCS, UCS Express, Urban Security, video surveillance, Virtualized Security
