networking

April 20, 2017

INNOVATION

Toronto Innovation Centre: An Insider’s View of Innovation

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The Toronto Innovation Centre answers the question on everyone’s mind: What is innovation and how can your organization make it happen in today’s digital world?

Leave Complex Multivendor Support Issues to Cisco

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The world is complex and the pace of change is accelerating. New technologies drive innovation and growth. But what happens with that growth?

March 2, 2017

CLOUD

Introducing Contiv 1.0 – The Most Powerful Container Networking Fabric

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Last week at Cisco live! 2017 EMEA in the historic city of Berlin, we shared the early availability of Contiv 1.0 with almost 14,000 customers and partners. Today, we are excited to share the milestone with our broader community. Additionally, I am thrilled to report that Docker has certified<> Contiv as the very first certified container networking product, and it is now available in the Docker Store. Docker Certification Program recognizes products that excel in quality, collaborative support and compliance. Integration and testing by Docker to certify Contiv is yet another data-point to our customers about its production readiness which enables them to adopt containers with confidence and low risk.

February 1, 2017

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Reality of Multivendor IT Support

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Imagine you’re the IT director of a global bank. You recently implemented a variety of digital solutions: virtualization, IoT, data analytics. You get the picture. Your company is under pressure...

January 9, 2017

NETWORKING

2017 Enterprise Network Security Trends

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Security is often seen as getting in the way of networking, by adding too many controls, or slowing the network down. We talk about common concerns with our network buyer customers, as well as the opportunities and challenges around securing the enterprise.

November 11, 2016

HEALTHCARE

Stop Playing the Diagnostic Waiting Game

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One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. See how digitizing the network connects multiple experts to the patient securely for efficient diagnoses.

September 21, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Innovation: It’s in our very core

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We are making enterprise-grade software as intuitive and adaptive as consumer technology. For the first time in the history of Cisco, we have a single software stack across the enterprise routing and switching product lines.

Creating a Networking Career Pipeline for Veterans

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On August 2, 2016, Cisco launched the Veteran Talent Incubation Program (VTIP) at its Research Triangle Park (RTP) campus in North Carolina.  Twelve veterans from area military bases are participating in the program, which spawned from a discussion between Erika Plant and TAC Managers (Chris Phillips, Charles Armstrong and Chris Myers) when they volunteered at […]

May 19, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco Open Source Project Contiv – Winner at ONUG Spring

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Cisco has been actively participating in open source and open standards for a long time and is now also a founding member of the Open IT Framework at the most recently held Open Networking User Group (ONUG) earlier this month. As I wrote in my blog prior to the event our focus was going to […]