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Cisco 360 represents a major structural shift for 2-tier SMB partners, replacing legacy volume-based incentives with a value-driven model that rewards capabilities, engagement, and managed services maturity. This analysis explains how SMB-focused integrators and MSPs can leverage Meraki certifications, Customer Success tiers, and the Partner Value Index to unlock higher margins, reduce growth penalties, and build profitable lifecycle-focused practices.

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The New Baseline for AI Security  AI is no longer an experimental capability or a back-office automation tool: it is becoming a core operational layer inside modern enterprises. The pace of adoption is breathtaking. Yet, according to Cisco’s 2025 AI Readiness Index, only 29 percent of companies believe they are adequately equipped to defend against […]

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NRF (National Retail Federation) is Retail’s Big Show, happening in New York City, January 11 – 13, 2026. This year’s theme, “Welcome to the next now,” perfectly encapsulates the transformative shift Cisco is enabling in retail. There’s no better venue to showcase how our technology is influencing our customers’ futures

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As 2025 closes, APJC is leading the world in AI adoption. Discover how Cisco advances AI-led security, digital resilience, and secure-by-design workplaces for a trusted, AI-ready future.

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Today marks a major milestone in the evolution of Cisco security. Cisco Identity Intelligence is now the first Cisco product to deliver a customer facing capability powered entirely by a Cisco built artificial intelligence model, Foundation-sec-1.1-8B-Instruct. This achievement represents the beginning of a true Cisco-on-Cisco strategy and proves that Cisco’s own security tuned models are […]

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What does learning to ride a bike have to do with work? Client Director, Premiere-Walmart, David D. shares how in his reflective story.

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The 2025 Cisco Segmentation Report shows that complexity, visibility, and context remain the main challenges for successful segmentation implementations.

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Remote work isn’t a temporary accommodation anymore — it’s the baseline expectation. People want the flexibility to work from anywhere, and organizations need a secure way to support that without introducing friction or operational drag. But that’s where many teams run into a familiar problem: traditional VPNs weren’t built for the way we work today. They’re slow to connect, brittle to maintain, and rely on a trust model […]

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Today, we announced an exciting update to Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team. Steve Clayton will be joining Cisco as our new Chief Communications Officer, effective January 5, 2026. Steve comes to us from Microsoft, where he has spent over 28 years in various communications and storytelling roles. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Communications […]