Year: 2014

July 22, 2014 Leave a Comment
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Retailer Data Breach Trend Not Likely To Subside

While we consumers certainly worry about security, the concerns of retailers are magnified because they are among the highest-profile targets right now for professional hacker attacks. At the same time, change is continuing on the security front, particularly in the area of PCI compliance. With the release of PCI DSS 3.0, retailers are more challenged than ever with security and compliance.

Join us tomorrow (July 23) for a webcast at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT). Check out the full blog post on the retail blog for more details and to register! We encourage you to bring your questions and take part in this conversation about how your retail business can be ready for the future of compliance.



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Carol Ferrara-Zarb

Compliance Solutions Manager

Security Technology Business Unit

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Solution Partner Tegile Helps NHL Team Prepare for the Future

The Voice of the Partner series is one of my favorite features we run on the Cisco Channels Blog. It’s always interesting to see how partners are implementing our solutions. For example, in this installment I had the opportunity to see how customers are implementing Cisco UCS and seeing real business results.

Since 2000, the Minnesota Wild franchise has excited devoted hockey fans in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. The owners, Minnesota Sports & Entertainment, also operate a number of additional venues in the area surrounding the arena, including the Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul RiverCentre convention center and the historic Roy Wilkins auditorium. With numerous entertainment properties to manage, their IT technicians and administrators balance varied and demanding priorities as they manage events ranging from professional symposiums to sporting events.

The corporate IT needs for Minnesota Wild are twofold: ensure hockey fans have top-notch audio and video to enhance the viewing experience and that clients renting out auxiliary facilities have access to the latest technologies needed to impress a range of audiences. Continue reading “Solution Partner Tegile Helps NHL Team Prepare for the Future”



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David Durham

Content Strategist

Channels

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Collaboration Tools Unleashed

TWTV150 Collaboration

Customers spoke. Cisco listened. And innovated.

Simplicity has always been a pain point for video collaboration systems. The new DX and MX systems leverage the same interfaces and are available at price points that make video more accessible for any size company. Combined with Intelligent Proximity that allows control of endpoints, seamless handoff of calls from one device to another, the ability to better interact with your online meetings – collaboration now becomes a real part of how we interact with devices and our work day.

Episode Promo

http://youtu.be/gEcjRBwm25g

Segment Details and Guests Include:

  • Tom Richards and Desktop Video
  • Jimmy Ray whiteboards Video Codecs
  • Kirk McNeil introduces the 8800 Series Phones
  • Ron Lewis covers The Boardroom and Meetings Spaces

More information at this handy Collaboration Endpoint Reference Page

Now – be sure and watch the show right here

Robb, Tina and Jimmy Ray

@techwisetv

TWTV150 Collaboration

TWTV150 Collaboration

TWTV150 Collaboration

TWTV150 Collaboration

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Robb Boyd

Producer, Writer, Host

July 21, 2014 Leave a Comment
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ACI—Some lesser known features

I am a consultant at a Cisco partner and I get to see a lot of different networks. Most of the networks are Cisco, but there are a few that are not. From time to time, I get network assessment projects. I love these types of projects as they are an exploration of  uncharted networks to see what can be discovered. Personally I like to have my network consistent, orderly, and precise. The common components of the configurations on all device should be identical. These network assessments usually do not conform to these standards. Syslog configured on some devices pointing to a device that no longer Continue reading “ACI—Some lesser known features”



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Charles D. Galler Jr

Network and UC Engineer

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Englewood Cliffs Public Schools System Rolls Out Converged Access

Englewood Cliffs public schools system, based in Bergen County, New Jersey offers classes to children from K-8 grades. The school system consists of two schools, the North Cliff school serving grades from K-2 and the Upper school serving grades from 3-8. The school system utilizes cutting-edge technology to assist learning from the classrooms equipped with technology, the 1 to 1 computer tablet initiative to the 6th, 7th and 8th graders to upgrading to the best-in-class wired and wireless infrastructure needed to support the advanced technologies.

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At a Glance:

Located in: Bergen County, New Jersey

Number of students: 478

Number of teachers: 39

Access-Points: Thirty three units of 3602i with the 802.11ac module and two units of 3602e

Switch and Controller: Ten units of 3850 Series switch, that offers 40 Gig of line-rate performance even with imix traffic. Wireless LAN controller functionality is run within the switch itself. The switches are deployed in stacks of two and the rest are single switches. The wireless controller functionality is operating on the main stack in each school MDF. Operating in the latest release IOS-XE 3.3.3 Continue reading “Englewood Cliffs Public Schools System Rolls Out Converged Access”



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Jeevan Patil

Director, Product Management

Wireless Network

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Cisco Invests in Developers

One of the marvelous things about community and teamwork is that it allows us to engage with people in a way we couldn’t as individuals. When we pool our strength and work together, we can create something in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This is the philosophy of our Cisco® software developer strategy.

As Cisco adds powerful software and services to our market-leading hardware portfolio, we recognize that developers are critical to creating value for our customers. With the advent of so many market transitions—mobility, cloud, the Internet of Everything (IoE), the application-centric infrastructure; driving and accelerating innovation– the value of our networked platforms is greatly enhanced by the applications that run on them.

Cisco is enabling customers to unlock intelligence from the network using applications, and help drive new business models and benefits including improved customer experiences, faster time to market, and increased efficiencies.

To fuel software innovation, Cisco has created DevNet, its new developer program, to enable an open community of software developers – including ISVs, customers and Systems Integrators/Channel Partners – to help them easily and rapidly build Cisco-enabled applications to sell and use, on top of Cisco APIs to enhance or manage Cisco networks and platforms. Cisco is encouraging the adoption of APIs across our products and fostering integrations with third-party products.

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Susie Wee

SVP & CTO

Cisco DevNet Ecosystem Success

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The Future of Cloud, Part 3: Transparency in the High Performance Cloud

(This is part 3 of a 7-part series sharing insights from Cisco partners about the Future of Cloud.)

At CiscoLive!, attendees had the chance to meet with many companies offering cloud services.  Dusten Tornow, Director of Infrastructure Products at OneNeck IT Solutions, shared some of his thoughts on the world of many clouds with me.

OneNeck offers a variety of services related to cloud, everything from basic collocation services to ReliaCloud, the company’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering.  “ReliaCloud serves as a platform for a host of services that we can run on top of it.  We have a lot of customers migrating their enterprise workloads from on-premises onto ReliaCloud.  Then we provide managed services for them and run the whole infrastructure from start to finish.

OneNeck’s focus has been on enterprise workloads that need a high performance cloud.  Their service is a Cisco Powered service, meaning they have gone through a rigorous certification and third-party audit of their offering.  I asked him why OneNeck would choose to offer a service that has such a high bar when there are so many alternatives that don’t require an audit.

“When we decided to build out our cloud infrastructure,” said Tornow, “we knew that we wanted to align with enterprise vendors like Cisco because their technologies resonant with our customers as being high performance.  They recognize that if they were to go out and build their own cloud, it would likely look and feel a lot like what we’ve built.  Being able to be transparent with what our equipment is made out of and built upon is a huge advantage for us.

“Using the Cisco Powered reference architecture is a no-brainer.  It’s a great place to start.”

You can also learn more about how providers are addressing the need for enterprise class services in the latest edition of Unleashing IT.



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Xander Uyleman

Senior Manager

Global Partner Marketing

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Cisco Focus: The Year in Review

Everyone loves “year in review” articles, slideshows and wraps, right? Well, I do. Cisco’s fiscal year ends July 26, so I thought it would be an appropriate time to give our fiscal year in review for the Cisco Social Media team and all the great content that we produce week-in and week-out.

We created and run “The Network: Cisco’s Technology News Site.” This is where we have great journalists writing stories about the impact that technology has on your life or your business. We also create short, informative videos that highlight Cisco Innovators, our Leadership team, and other video series like “My Networked Life” or “City of the Future: Songdo, Korea.” And, whether you are a customer or partner…or are just interested in technology, we invite you and encourage you to take our content for your own site and re-use it or share it.

Last August, we launched our monthly digital magazine entitled “Focus.” Each month we do a deep dive on technology topics that we care about and that the industry cares about. You can see all the issues here.

Our Top 3 Issues this year:
1.       Technology in Education
2.       Women in Tech, and Continue reading “Cisco Focus: The Year in Review”



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John Earnhardt

No Longer at Cisco

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IT Transformation: Understanding environment and business goals

In my last blog, I established reasons behind today’s need for IT Transformation. We know that CIOs hope to cut their budget in half, but this will be difficult unless they understand their Enterprise Environment, as well as, the management goals that align with their organization’s overall IT transformation efforts. Today we will take a deeper dive into understanding both. Because there is no “one size fits all” way of embarking on an IT Transformation journey, it is important that each organization looking to begin this process makes their own set of assessments, starting with a baseline assessment of their Enterprise Environment: Continue reading “IT Transformation: Understanding environment and business goals”



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Parag Parekh

Data Center and Cloud Services

Advanced Services Product Management