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April 16, 2015 Leave a Comment

#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 13. 4G

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’ll be talking about 4G with Cisco Systems Engineer, Cellular Wireless Technology, David Mindel.

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Cisco SMEs
David Mindel, Systems Engineer, Cellular Wireless Technology

Cisco Champion Guest Hosts
Chris Hildebrandt, @childebrandt42, Network & Collaboration Engineer
Michael O’Nan, @Michael_Onan, Network & Collaboration Engineer

Moderator
Lauren Friedman (@Lauren)

Highlights
What is 4G LTE?
How it relates to IWAN
Use cases for 4G
Hardware used with 4G
Managing incoming connections on 4G
Wow features
Using 4G for last mile network access
4G and geo-fencing Continue reading “#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 13. 4G”

Authors

Rachel Bakker

Social Media Advocacy Manager

Digital and Social

Embracing MVNOs and Connected Cars with Policy

Maywun Wong

We have had a great time meeting with customers and analysts this week at the Policy Control Conference. Kishen Mangat, Cisco’s Senior Director and General Manager of the Policy Business Unit, presented a keynote on Wednesday entitled “The Changing Mobility Business in the Age of Virtualisation.”

During his keynote, he touched on the topic from last week’s blog about how Service Providers are learning to expand their offerings with both additional services to existing subscribers and new ways to create business models and enter new markets. Traditional PCRF and the evolving Policy offerings like Cisco Policy Suite are helping our customers create Continue reading “Embracing MVNOs and Connected Cars with Policy”

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Maywun Wong

Manager, Market Management

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How and Why We Created “Software Defined Networking for Dummies”

Gary Kinghorn

Last week we launched our new book, Software Defined Networking for Dummies, which I wrote the vast majority of and was responsible for producing. And the response to date has been far more enthusiastic than even I anticipated. The feedback from the Cisco field has been great, and there is strong demand for reprints across all regions and localization in a number of languages. [Printed copies can now be ordered from the Cisco Collateral Store at nominal cost here.]

Naturally, we’ve also gotten a number of questions, such as “Does this mean we think SDN is for Dummies?”, “Do we think our customers are Dummies?”, “Why did Cisco decide to leverage the Dummies brand for this topic?”, etc. In order to clear some of this up, the social media team asked me to write a bit of the backstory of the creation of the book, why we decided to do it, and why it’s proving to be such a popular asset.

It all started when I was looking to fill a large gap in Cisco product marketing, particularly around SDN and our Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). SDN has certainly proven to be a revolutionary break from traditional networking architectures and is really changing the way organizations think about their IT processes and how they design data centers. With all this change, it’s been hard for a lot of people to get their heads around what this new technology trend is really all about. When Cisco introduced ACI as a very sophisticated and comprehensive SDN solution, there’s no doubt it took people a lot of time to understand ACI, how it was similar to SDN, and where it was introducing new innovative concepts. Continue reading “How and Why We Created “Software Defined Networking for Dummies””

Authors

Gary Kinghorn

Sr Solution Marketing Manager

Network Virtualization and SDN

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What It Means to be a Woman of Influence

Evelyn de Souza

It was a wonderful honor to be named to Silicon Valley Business Journal 100 Women of Influence just over a week ago; one that will help greatly with accelerating my initiatives for cloud safety—not just for business, but also for us all.

And for the honor, I owe much thanks to many incredible mentors who have believed in me and for the immense opportunities they have provided me.

Continue reading “What It Means to be a Woman of Influence”

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Evelyn de Souza

Cloud Data Governance Leader

Chief Technology and Architecture Office

April 15, 2015 3 Comments

How Banks Can Begin the Journey to IoE Readiness

Joseph M. Bradley

Cisco’s recent survey of 7200 banking customers in 12 countries left me with a crystal-clear takeaway: consumers are ready for the Internet of Everything (IoE) — and they want it now.

But to meet that demand, banks need to assess their own capabilities as they begin to light up their own “dark assets” with network connectivity and embark on the journey to IoE readiness.

In our survey, we tested five key IoE-enabled banking concepts related to advice (virtual financial advice, virtual mortgage advice, and automated financial advice) and mobility (branch recognition and mobile payments). These concepts resonated with customers globally: 75 percent of all respondents would move their money to another provider for one or more of the five concepts. And while the interest is significant everywhere, in emerging markets, respondents are twice as likely to move their money. Continue reading “How Banks Can Begin the Journey to IoE Readiness”

Authors

Joseph M. Bradley

Global Vice President

Digital & IoT Advanced Services

Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI) For SAP HANA

Rick Speyer

Tailored Data Center Integration for SAP HANA enables the use  of enterprise storage and networking components that already exist in your data center rather than requiring customers to purchase additional storage and networking to be used only for the SAP HANA environment.

Cisco and its partners deliver a TDI deployment model using a common architectural approach, built on standard building blocks with the Cisco Unified Computing SystemTM (Cisco UCS®) as the base. This approach gives application datacenter managers flexibility of choice in the way that they implement SAP HANA. Cisco supports the SAP HANA TDI deployment with shared storage and shared networking today.

SAP HANA TDI provides the first evolutionary step away from the constraints of a very controlled standalone appliance model toward a model in which application datacenters can be configured using existing SAP certified enterprise storage and enterprise networking. When you use the SAP HANA TDI model, existing network and storage can be used only if sufficient resources are available and if all components used are SAP certified. Here, “sufficient resources” means that sufficient storage capacity and I/O bandwidth are available on both the storage system and the storage network to meet the SAP HANA application needs in your environment.

What does this mean for you? You will gain the following benefits. You can:

Use your existing storage and network investment in people, process, and equipment
Get the best use of your investment in current datacenter switching architecture
Create a more flexible deployment in which server, network, and storage resources can be moved between different SAP HANA and SAP business solutions applications, and even non-SAP applications  mitigate risk and optimize operations and resources by using existing data center management processes for SAP HANA implementations
Gain flexibility in hardware vendor selection and SAP HANA configuration

Continue reading “Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI) For SAP HANA”

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Rick Speyer

No Longer with Cisco

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Secure Access Control in the Internet of Everything

Kip Compton

In my role leading the development of Cisco’s IoT Systems and Software, I spend a fair amount of time speaking at industry events and talking with customers and partners. There is a lot of excitement about the Internet of Everything (IoE) – the intelligent connection of people, processes, data and things to the Internet – as it continues to take hold, bringing unprecedented economic opportunities to both the private and public sectors.

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Kip Compton

No longer with Cisco

Three Key Considerations When Evaluating Threat Intelligence Solutions

Joe Malenfant

To address today’s evolving threat landscape, there’s been a shift from traditional event-driven security to intelligence-led security. Threat intelligence plays an integral role in this shift.

When you hear the term “Threat Intelligence,” it’s easy to have preconceived notions of what it means. Gartner defines threat intelligence as “evidence-based knowledge, including context, mechanisms, indicators, implications and actionable advice, about an existing or emerging menace or hazard to assets that can be used to inform decisions regarding the subject’s response to that menace or hazard.” I like that Gartner’s definition does not include intent. Why? Intent implies that the “menace” is trying to target you, but we know that too often this isn’t the case. Pretty much any piece of malware out there will damage unintended targets. One example is Stuxnet. It targeted Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities. Unfortunately it escaped the purported air-gapped system and has been seen in at least 10 other countries. In more practical terms threat intelligence must be:

Tactical
Contextual
Automated

Continue reading “Three Key Considerations When Evaluating Threat Intelligence Solutions”

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Social Media Advocacy Manager

Digital and Social

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Manager, Market Management

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Sr Solution Marketing Manager

Network Virtualization and SDN

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Cloud Data Governance Leader

Chief Technology and Architecture Office

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Senior Manager

Chief Sustainability Office

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Global Vice President

Digital & IoT Advanced Services

What does this mean for you? You will gain the following benefits. You can:

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No Longer with Cisco

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No longer with Cisco

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Director, IoT Marketing

Internet of Things (IoT)