Incubation
How Technology Innovation is Upending the Finance Industry
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The finance industry may not seem like a prime candidate for technological innovation but today it is actually a case study in innovative solutions. We take a look at five examples spread across different subsegments of the financial services industry.
The Future of Cloud-Native Connectivity: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Banzai Cloud
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1/15/20 Update: Cisco has completed the acquisition of Banzai Cloud. Welcome to Cisco! As modern cloud-native applications become more pervasive, the environments in which these applications run are becoming thinner (containers, microservices, functions), increasingly distributed and more geographically diverse. Emerging cloud infrastructure technologies give rise to unique implementation challenges as the modern cloud-native application relies […]
Application Security Comes into Further Focus with Intent to Acquire Portshift
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10/26/2020 Update: We have completed the acquisition of Portshift. Welcome to Cisco! As the proliferation of cloud-native apps continues to accelerate with the aim to transact business efficiently and securely from anywhere, the security landscape is converging toward protecting both people and applications. Business agility requirements are pushing security up the stack and earlier in […]
The Innovation Funding Board Process in Action
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There are four main phases involved in the Innovation Funding Board process, including ideas, rapid evaluation, incubation, and implementation.
Cisco Challenges Digital Entrepreneurs Worldwide
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The Innovation Grand Challenge is calling on all innovators, entrepreneurs, developers, researchers and students to submit disruptive ideas for digital transformation in industry and government.