Thirteen is a lucky number for Cisco Collaboration. For the 13th year in a row, Gartner shows Cisco as a leader in its 2015 Magic Quadrant for Corporate Telephony, positioning Cisco highest in execution and furthest in vision for corporate telephony among all eight vendors.
Similarly, Cisco is also included in the Gartner Critical Capabilities in Corporate Telephony. Released this week, the report takes a closer look into the eight vendors represented in the Telephony Magic Quadrant. And in it, Cisco earns the highest product scores in 3 of 4 critical capabilities for telephony.
Did you know that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month? Here at Cisco, we understand how important cybersecurity is in today’s interconnected world. Because the Internet touches an increasingly large part of our lives, it’s necessary to engage and educate the public about how to stay protected. While we highlight the importance of cybersecurity in October, at Cisco we have initiatives and programs in place to make sure the education continues throughout the rest of the year as well.
We start from the inside out, making sure that our own employees are fully educated and trained in the latest in cybersecurity. Our Cisco Security Ninja Program, which challenges participants to reach for higher degrees of competency and proficiency in product security, has been a huge success. Employees can earn four distinct belts– white, green, blue, brown and black – that represent their advancing cybersecurity knowledge. Additionally, we offer a program in conjunction with San Jose State University that enables Cisco employees to earn their Master’s degree in Software Engineering with an emphasis in Cybersecurity. Plus, every year we have an internal conference on security – SecCon – that brings together hundreds of engineers from Cisco offices around the globe to share their knowledge and increase the overall security posture of Cisco products. All of these programs help ensure that our own employees are experts at the latest in cyber protection.
Beyond ensuring that our own employees are well-educated, we’re committed to spreading awareness about cybersecurity to the general public as well. One of the programs we’re most proud of is our Cisco Network Academy. Cisco Networking Academy helps one million people each year develop technical skills and prepare for ICT careers. The curriculum – which includes courses on cybersecurity – is offered by more than 9,000 institutions in more than 170 countries. After all, in a world that is increasingly connected, cybersecurity is a global issue, not just a local one. Continue reading “Happy National Cyber Security Awareness Month!”
Have you ever used the word “flibbertigibbet” on a resume? –You would be surprised with what resume faux pas come across a recruiter’s desk. Bad stories are often more memorable, but no one wants to be a part of those. Corporate recruiters are flooded with applications, so if you want yours to stand out (in a good way), it needs to be polished.
To help you perfect your resume, we asked Cisco recruiters about surprising mistakes that applicants make and should avoid. Here are the top five responses:
5) “When someone writes in the third person.”
-Cindy Brahney, Staffing & Recruitment Specialist (@CindyBrahney)
Why it’s a DON’T:
Referring to yourself in the third person is awkward. It sounds funny and looks bad, so don’t do it unless your name is Elmo.
What you can DO instead:
Write in bullet point format and use a variety of strong action verbs to start each line. Some of these words include: collaborated, managed, and created.
4) “Resumes that have many words in them but tell me nothing about what the person really has to offer. This is not the place to be a politician.”
-Griselle Paz, Talent Acquisition Manager (@growingacareer)
Why it’s a DON’T:
The point of a resume is to showcase your experience and talent in a succinct way. If recruiters want to read a mystery novel, they can go to the library.
What you can DO instead:
Be clear about your accomplishments and relate them to the job you are applying for. Every line should have a specific purpose and highlight one of your strengths.
3) “Resumes where you can tell that an applicant submitted it for a completely different job. These are unrelated to the job they want and do not list any skills applicable to the role.”
-April Welsh, Talent Acquisition Manager (@aprwelsh)
Why it’s a DON’T:
Do you enjoy feeling like someone’s second choice? An afterthought? Recruiters have feelings too and want to see that a candidate spent time on a resume for a specific position. Using a generic resume is a huge turn off.
What you can DO instead:
It is ok to have a “master resume,” but you must edit it for each job that you apply to. Only include the skills and talents that are most relevant to the job at hand.
2) “When candidates put their parents phone number and not their direct number. I have called a lot of parents!”
-Tara Kaverman, Talent Acquisition Program Specialist (@CiscoTara)
Why it’s a DON’T:
Unless you need your parent’s permission to leave the house, you should not be using their phone number. It is unprofessional to have someone else speak for you.
What you can DO instead:
The first few lines on a resume should be your name and contact information. If a recruiter wants to schedule an interview, then she will need a way to reach you directly. Be sure to include both your phone number and email address.
1) “Crazy, unprofessional email addresses! Hollaatme@goodtimes.com—are you going to be working in a bounce house?”
-Laura Coeburn, Staffing & Recruiting Specialist (@CoeburnLaura)
Why it’s a DON’T:
If you want to apply for a job at the local bounce house, go right ahead. I hear they have a few openings down the street… Otherwise, don’t waste your first impression with an unprofessional email address.
What you can DO instead:
It is easy to make a professional email address through Yahoo, Google, MSN, or any other free site. Something like YourName@email looks good and does the trick.
At NetApp Insight in Las Vegas, Cisco and NetApp teams came together to celebrate five years of integrated infrastructure leadership with FlexPod. We also introduced new FlexPod capabilities and solutions designed to simplify IT and enhance application performance.
In the video below, Jim McHugh, VP of Cisco UCS and Data Center Solutions Marketing, and Lee Caswell, VP of Product and Solutions Marketing at NetApp, discuss our partnership, success, and new FlexPod solutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDjJgvGOD-o
At Insight, we introduced capabilities that make FlexPod simpler to buy, simpler to deploy, and simpler to own. These new capabilities benefit IT at the edge or in branch office locations where this is a need to have solutions delivered and deployed quickly with minimal administrative expertise required. There also continues to be a focus on helping applications run at their absolute best. The combination of Cisco UCS, Cisco ACI, and NetApp All Flash FAS as the new FlexPod foundation for enterprise applications (i.e. SAP, Microsoft, and Oracle) can deliver outstanding performance resulting in better business outcomes. Continue reading “NetApp Insight 2015 Recap: FlexPod Delivers Application Optimization and Simplified IT”
As enterprises digitize their businesses and 50 billion devices come online over the next five years, cyber attackers are perpetually trying to stay one step ahead of these trends and becoming more adept at exploiting security weaknesses and avoiding detection. To help customers address these nascent risks, Cisco is focused on delivering solutions across the extended network, what we call Security Everywhere. We are embedding threat protection capabilities from the enterprise infrastructure to the data center, from mobile to the cloud, and through to endpoints.
To address this proliferation of security threats and help our customers protect their networks and endpoints, we are pleased to announce Cisco’s intent to acquire privately-held Lancope, Inc. Lancope, through its StealthWatch system, provides network behavior analytics, threat visibility and security intelligence to protect enterprise networks against today’s top threats.
Lancope has been part of Cisco’s security solution for many years through a successful commercial relationship and now we are coming together as one team. Our combined solutions help secure customers’ resources and critical assets by using their network as a sensor—extending protection further into their networks and allowing them to see more threats and to identify these threats faster. Together, Cisco and Lancope will advance Cisco’s Security Everywhere strategy of providing advanced threat protection across the full attack continuum—before, during and after an attack.
The acquisition of Lancope compliments our other recent security acquisitions including OpenDNS, Portcullis, and Neohapsis. We look forward to welcoming the Lancope team to Cisco’s Security Business Group led by David Goeckeler, senior vice president and general manager. We expect the acquisition to close in the second quarter of Cisco’s current fiscal year.
Did you know that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month? Here at Cisco, we understand how important cybersecurity is in today’s interconnected world. Because the Internet touches an increasingly large part of our lives, it’s necessary to engage and educate the public about how to stay protected. While we highlight the importance of cybersecurity in October, at Cisco we have initiatives and programs in place to make sure the education continues throughout the rest of the year as well.
We start from the inside out, making sure that our own employees are fully educated and trained in the latest in cybersecurity. Our Cisco Security Ninja Program, which challenges participants to reach for higher degrees of competency and proficiency in product security, has been a huge success. Employees can earn four distinct belts– white, green, blue, brown and black – that represent their advancing cybersecurity knowledge. Additionally, we offer a program in conjunction with San Jose State University that enables Cisco employees to earn their Master’s degree in Software Engineering with an emphasis in Cybersecurity. Plus, every year we have an internal conference on security – SecCon – that brings together hundreds of engineers from Cisco offices around the globe to share their knowledge and increase the overall security posture of Cisco products. All of these programs help ensure that our own employees are experts at the latest in cyber protection. Continue reading “Our Commitment to Cybersecurity Education and Training”
We brought two cBR-8 routers and we used one to run live data through it. We used Ixia gear to generate video and data traffic. Hence we showed the convergence.
The picture below on the left shows how DOCSIS 3.1 spectrum is being modulated—there are 4096 QAM, while the picture in the middle shows one spectrum for DOCSIS 3.0 and two spectrums for DOCSIS 3.1. Overall, it has been very impressive to see what DOCSIS 3.1 will bring and that we are able to demonstrate DOCSIS 3.1 today. We offered Continue reading “Cisco cBR-8 Rises up to the DOCSIS 3.1 Challenge at SCTE (part 2)”
One of the things we tend to do as networking people is test configurations to see if things work the way we think they will.
Case in point, I just had a talk with a fellow Champion, Teren Bryson (@someclown) and he was telling me how he used VIRL to prove a concept to a customer that didn’t think something was possible.
So that’s what this post is about.
The VIRL Setup
The first thing I want to point out is that this concept will work with other virtual machines. I just happen to be into security and needed to test some ACS configurations when I did this. I have also done this with Cisco ISE as well as the WLC and even the Cisco ASA 1000v prior to the ASAv being integrated directly into VIRL.
You can start by installing VIRL in your choice of virtualization software. In my case, I’m using VMware Fusion 12 Pro on a Mac running OS X Yosemite.
More than 56 million people in Latin America rose above the poverty line between 2002 and 2011. Thanks to a thriving job market and rising wages, the middle class in the region grew by 82 million people in that time span, as more people discovered new economic opportunities in an increasingly connected world.
The explosion of people, processes, data, and things connected to the Internet — the Internet of Everything — has the potential to create even more growth and opportunity, for people and businesses alike. Consider this: by the end of this year, more than 15 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. And by 2020, this is expected to grow to 50 billion devices. All these connections will create new jobs, new businesses, and new career paths that don’t even exist today.
In 28 Latin American countries, more than 180,000 students are enrolled in Cisco Networking Academy courses, developing skills in networking, security, and cloud technologies.
Unfortunately, right now there is an obstacle to realizing this potential in Latin America. We need more people with the skills to digitize our economy. According to an IDC Report, there will be a shortage of 296,200 computer networking professionals in eight Latin American countries this year, leaving more than one third of these jobs unfilled. According to the World Bank Enterprise Surveys, 36 percent of businesses surveyed in Latin America say they struggle to find an adequately qualified work force, a percentage higher than in any other region in the world. This skills shortage poses a challenge for the economic development in the coming years.
Fortunately, the Cisco Networking Academy is helping people develop the IT skills that businesses need to grow and thrive in our increasingly digitized world. In 28 Latin American countries, more than 180,000 students are enrolled in Cisco Networking Academy courses, developing skills in networking, security, and cloud technologies.
