Raakhee Mistry

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With the impending hybrid work explosion, we must discuss the return to the workplace as it relates to trusted workplace, the remote workforce, and SASE.

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The power of the cloud allows us to more easily work from home or anywhere we want. But the cloud is also a vast platform for innovation that allows us to create highly engaging experiences, personalized to each one of us.

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Organizations today need to equip their teams with technologies that allow them to work as one. They also need to invest in modernized infrastructure that is capable of automating IT processes and providing actionable insights based on a common data set. Those that do will tap into the ultimate superpower for business resiliency in the next new normal: IT agility.

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The Cisco Live! 2020 digital event will gather the best and the brightest IT heroes to imagine these possibilities. Join us for free – from your home – next Tuesday and Wednesday, June 16-17.

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The pace of change in business is accelerating so fast, that many IT professionals may not have fully recognized and internalized the enormity of the changes happening in the networking space right now. We’re talking about taking a huge leap forward in the way networks will be designed, deployed and managed compared to the last […]

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Automation is a key element in our Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA). The immediate –and let’s admit it, somewhat negative- association with automation is that the human element in production is almost entirely replaced by robots. While that might be a trend in certain manufacturing environments, IT Departments are not a production plant. Especially as […]

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One month after the Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) announcement, I’m reflecting on how different audiences responded to Cisco’s networking vision to make a monumental shift to an open, extensible and software-drive platform. Knowing the many man-years and woman-years of engineering innovation it took to bring this architecture to life, it is very exciting to […]

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My fellow networkers, it’s time for the network to take the center stage once again. Open APIs, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), etc. – are converging with evolving demands to usher in an exciting new phase of networking. And it shouldn’t surprise any of you that Cisco is playing a central role.

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As organization race to digitize their businesses, building a mobile strategy is a top priority. A mobile strategy is not just about building mobile apps, then calling it a day. Let’s take a look at these unsettling stats: Organizations are spending $270K per business app on average and yet only 46% of executives indicate adoption […]

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Guest post from Lorenz Jakober Video growth is overwhelming the enterprise network We have all been there. At work trying to watch the live company all-hands video, or the latest training, or perhaps even the latest YouTube video. But all we end up with are pixelated videos that take forever to start and constantly re-buffer. […]

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As the U.S. approaches the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, there are likely more than a few IT folks who are saying thanks for the ISR 4000 Series, and the challenges it has addressed. Over the past year, we’ve had over 1,000 customers deploy the ISR 4000 Series, and the industry has repeatedly validated the positive impact […]

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A few weeks back, Gartner analyst Bjarne Munch stated, “Internet and MPLS play an equally important role for enterprise connectivity. Network planners must establish a unified WAN with strong integration between these two networks to avoid performance problems.”[i] So, why should IT move to a hybrid WAN architecture? What are the benefits? #1 – Control […]

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For years, many IT organizations have been addressing slow application performance by adding more bandwidth. With broadband speeds available at over 100 Mbps, and the future of Fiber-optic at 1 Gbps, you would think bandwidth would solve all our application problems. However, many organizations are quickly learning that bandwidth on its own is not the […]

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 The Interop Las Vegas team chose April Fools’ as the day to announce the Best of Interop winners – a curious choice some may say. But, there was no fooling when the Interop team announced the Cisco ISR 4451-X Converged Branch Infrastructure for the Best of Interop Networking category. Here is what judge Kurt Marko […]

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Enabling a Platform for Branch Innovation In an era of content explosion, where IT is challenged by exponential traffic growth due to mobility, video, cloud and Internet of Things – no place is this problem more acute than the branch office where businesses typically engage customers. To address this critical need, Cisco is pleased to […]

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According to the Open Network User Group (ONUG), a consortium of IT leaders including Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, JP Morgan Chase, UBS, and Gap, among the top priorities to reduce network expenses was WAN management, coming it at #3.  This should not be a surprise with the growth of bandwidth demands from cloud, mobility […]

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There is no denying the changing role of IT. The traditional...

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Today’s IT organizations are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Most face an avalanche of new bandwidth requirements hitting their networks, yet too few resources to support the business’ needs.  In 2013, three out of four organizations will not have any additional wide area network (WAN) budget (Nemertes Research). That means 75% of […]