Perspectives

Today, applications no longer just support the business; they are the key to a successful business. Customer satisfaction and employee productivity are directly dependent on interactions with the applications. If the applications do not perform flawlessly, it can hurt an organization’s bottom line and even put a dent in its brand value. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for applications to shine. Now more than ever, people are relying on them to get work done and keep business running, and they want to be able to use them on any device and from anywhere.

See how Cisco’s own solutions have also provided a treasure trove of data that shows increasing reliance on cloud networks. Read the blog: Insights in a Multicloud World.

The best part of my day at Cisco is working with Cisco Champions. When I started my marketing career at Cisco, I had no idea my path would eventually lead me to working with the most passionate technologists in the industry. What a stroke of good luck!

Do you have the visibility and insights needed to redesign and secure your workforce? It's crucial for IT to have these trends, in order to take the right action — to deliver the best possible user and application experience.

What’s your Business Resiliency plan? Learn how Cisco’s business resiliency plan empowered teams to work from anywhere, added built-in security into every solution, and automated platforms for additional agility.

Cisco's third annual IT Blog Awards are now accepting submissions from independent bloggers, vloggers and podcasters. Nominate your favorite IT blog or apply before the deadline on Friday, October 16.

In IT, the need to redefine business resiliency is stunningly clear. Disaster recovery, business continuity solutions, data center redundancy, cloud backups, threat detection and mitigation, etc. – until today, resiliency meant ensuring that applications and data would be always available and secure.

The shift to work from home is likely to remain in place for quite some time. Before this year, about 22% of employees worked remotely. Our study shows that more than 40% of office workers will maintain their working from home capabilities into the future.

Why do some transformations succeed and other fail? I read some research recently from PMI, Gartner and other sources saying that 71% of IT projects are failures — 19% are utter failures. Another survey found that 51% of digital transformation projects had stalled or been abandoned altogether. Clearly something is lacking in these initiatives. Is […]