Because Cisco Investments plays a crucial role in providing customers with the latest in innovation alongside Cisco’s robust product portfolio, we partner with the most cutting-edge startups to shape the future of technology. These companies align with our strategic areas including Security, IoT, Cloud, Data Center, and Collaboration. At this year’s Cisco Live Orlando, you can witness first-hand the technology that Cisco is betting on to make not only our customers’ and partners’

SD-WAN adoption is on the rise. Cisco’s Virtual Network Index (VNI) predicts SD-WAN traffic will grow at a CAGR of 44 percent through 2021, compared to five percent for traditional WAN. Meanwhile, networks continue to get more complex. Consider the EMA Research report, “Advanced Network Analytics: The Future of Network Engineering and Operations,” that found network managers spend nearly 71 percent of their time fixing problems. EMA analysts predict “this situation will only get worse as networks get more complex and enterprises adopt new solutions,

Retailers are increasingly combining physical brick and mortar operations with ecommerce capabilities to better address consumer demand for online purchasing. By combining data from physical and eCommerce sites, retailers can extract a variety of outputs using big data analytics that help guide leadership teams in making effective decisions. While big data is a frequently cited term these days, people often struggle to develop an understanding for what it means in practice or how it translates to measurable business value.

Beginnings and beyond: a snapshot of Cisco’s investments in Israel  When it comes to Cisco’s history in Israel, it’s easy to let the numbers tell the story of growth. Since setting up operations in the country 23 years ago, Cisco has directly invested in five funds and 35 startups. Of the startups Cisco invested in, 16 companies were acquired and two startups have gone through IPOs; those figures translate into exits in excess of $2 billion and an investment of $2 billion in the Israel tech ecosystem over the years.

Why CEOs, Sales execs and Sales professionals love Gong! Every sales professional experiences it – during the course of a conversation with a customer, she needs to decipher sentiment, understand nuances, pitch to the strengths of the product she is selling and recall every important detail mentioned. But what happens if you add further complexities into the mix – for instance, if you get called to replace or help a peer with an existing prospective customer?

Federal agencies have been working for several years to accelerate adoption of cloud solutions that improve user productivity and collaboration while also reducing costs. But CIOs today continue to struggle with regulatory compliance, cyberattack prevention, privacy of data, and other obstacles that can hamper and even prevent digital transformation initiatives. At CTERA, designing IT modernization solutions for federal and defense organizations is a key aspect of our business. We offer a secure and unified platform that allows organizations to meet key modernization initiatives for cloud-based user file storage,

Note Taking and a Walk Down Memory Lane We’re taught from an early age to take notes. I believe the first time I recall starting to take notes was when I entered junior high. In fact, I can even recall being required to take a class on how to take notes – Roman numbers, indentation, etc. The act of taking notes is one of the few activities that has stood the test of time as I continued to do this not only in junior high,

Breaking up is hard to do, but if it’s concerning PaaS and meeting the growing needs of enterprises and their developers, breaking up—or disaggregation—is exactly what should happen. Consider this: companies have traditionally turned to PaaS for enabling rapid development and deployment of cloud-native applications. However, the speed and simplicity of deployment came at a cost. Many of these platforms are monolithic or opinionated, meaning they have implementation restrictions. Professional developers could only develop specific types of applications with specified technology choices depending on the PaaS provider.

Instead of finger-pointing and blaming each other, network and data center operators can learn a lot from each other, especially as the different types of infrastructure converge and the same concerns apply to both. There is a sea change underway in the networking world. I come from the data center world, and I only know enough TCP/IP networking to be dangerous – but over the last decade or so, I have watched the the two very different worlds of the network and the data center start to move closer together.