Earlier this month, Cisco’s AppDynamics group released the results of its latest App Attention Index, which measures customer attitudes toward applications and digital services — and unsurprisingly, the study found that consumers reliance on digital services has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic began. That’s consistent with my discussions with business leaders, most of whom have ...

As enterprise networks continue to grow in complexity, information technology departments are under immense pressure to provide reliable and secure access to all users regardless of their location. Software-defined wide-area networking addresses the challenges of managing hybrid and multicloud environments by automatically adapting to changing network conditions. SD-WAN adoption is expected to expand over the ...

Extreme Networks Inc. today announced a new vision and a new AIOps product called CoPilot to support it. The vision, unveiled at the company’s digital user conference Extreme Connect, is something called the “Infinite Enterprise” where connectivity needs to be delivered to any point in the globe at any time. The online event was recorded ...

To return, or not to return, that is the question. The COVID-19 pandemic changed a lot of things in life, perhaps none bigger than mandating that almost everyone work from home. Now that the vaccine is starting to take hold, business leaders are being asked what their plan is for the return to work and ...

Not surprisingly, Nvidia Corp. used its GPU Technology Conference last week to announce updates to what it’s doing in the areas of artificial intelligence, supercomputing and autonomous vehicles. But the 2021 version of GTC had a new twist: a much stronger enterprise focus than ever before. Nvidia, best-known for its graphics processing units and associated ...

Among a flurry of announcements this past week, Cisco Systems Inc. stepped up its Routed Optical Networking infrastructure is designed to simplify the sprawling networks and expanding its Secure Access Service Edge portfolio to help network operations and security operations teams connect users to applications more securely. That news and more came at the networking giant’s first digital and truly ...

COVID-19 fast-tracked digital transformation projects around the world, on average three times faster compared with other years. Now, chief information officers and information technology decision makers are focused on optimizing the investments made during the pandemic and accelerating digital agility. A recent report by Cisco Systems Inc. explores the need for digital agility — that ...

Events hosted by technology companies certainly aren’t anything out of the ordinary, as most vendors use conferences to provide customers with technical training and a roadmap of products. However, there are a handful of vendor events that have become so influential that they gain the status of an industry event. RSA in security, Cisco Live ...

Last June Cisco Systems Inc. Chief Executive Chuck Robbins unveiled a new purpose for the company: to use its networking expertise and products such as Webex to power an inclusive future for all. One of the ways Cisco is fulfilling on its promise of inclusivity is through training the underprivileged and underserved. Not everyone has equal ...

COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation projects worldwide, on average three times faster compared with other years. However, the rapid speed of innovation created additional complexities and forced information technology professionals to reevaluate their entire IT stack. AppDynamics, a Cisco Systems Inc. company, dove deeper into this concept known as full-stack observability in its latest Agents of ...