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.

CiscoLive! Melbourne 2018 marked a major milestone as this is the first time we’ve showcased our investment companies at the show. A main focus of any CiscoLive! event is bringing the latest leading edge technology to attendees including customers and partners. With CI’s focus on investing in disruptive technologies that align with our business today and in the future, CiscoLive! Is the perfect platform to showcase our investments. Our presence was a huge success! Cisco Investments hosted six portfolio companies including: Exabeam,

Over 600 business leaders from the corporate venturing ecosystem attended the Global Corporate Venturing and Innovation (GCVI) Summit in Monterey. Rob Salvagno, VP of Corporate Development, headlined the Keynote Interview. Below is the video and transcript from his onstage interview with GCV founder, Jim Mawson.   Jim: We’ve got a super packed day. We’re delighted to have heard from Sue Siegel, Wendell Brooks, Young Sohn and a host of others. But, from my point of view,

We are excited to announce our investment in Upskill, a company that provides augmented reality solutions for the industrial workforce. Upskill’s product, Skylight, provides a hardware vendor-agnostic software platform and out-of-the-box capabilities to create and deploy custom AR applications rapidly across a company’s entire operations. Over the last 20 years, Cisco Investments has invested in hundreds of companies across different segments. We see tremendous opportunity for AR to improve worker productivity and efficiency in an industry feeling the pressure of rising manufacturing costs.