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Like their private enterprise counterparts in 2020, educational institutions, state and local governments, and federal agencies needed a shift in their IT strategy to adapting successfully to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, Scott Frielander, vice president of Insight Public Sector, and Nick Michaelides, Cisco’s senior vice president for U.S. Public Sector, discussed how Cisco technology helped clients rapidly transition to new, innovative ways of serving the public.

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Cisco continues to lead the industry in performance for Big Data systems, this time smashing the previous TPCx-HS benchmark world record by over 14% while simultaneously reducing cost by 5%. The TPC developed the TPCx-HS benchmark several years ago as Big Data systems grew from a curiosity to one of the fastest growing segments in […]

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Not surprisingly, as a networking company Cisco frequently publishes predictions on the growth of Internet traffic. Bragging unintended, typically the forecasts are pretty accurate. In a 2012 report we predicted that by 2017 there would be 2.5 devices and related connections for every person on earth, while there would be 5 devices and related connections […]