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 ...

Networking provider Extreme Networks Inc. today announced it’s now the official WiFi solutions provider for Major League Baseball. Beginning with the 2021 season, 16 MLB ballparks will use Extreme WiFi 6 and WiFi analytics to improve the fan and media experience, with more installations scheduled through 2026. The deal also extends to MLB’s Jackie Robinson ...

With this week’s $500 million acquisition by application delivery controller supplier F5 Networks Inc. of cloud-native network and security provider Volterra Inc., F5 aims to create an edge services platform for businesses and service providers to deliver and secure “cloud” apps at scale. I put the term cloud in quotes because it’s the changing definition of ...

The primary tenet of my research has been that market share shifts happen when markets transition, so my focus is those areas that are undergoing significant change. It’s when things change that buying behavior also changes. For example, if Cisco Systems Inc. had decided to go build a traditional PBX, it would not have the ...

The shift to the cloud has had a significant impact on the network, broadening its perimeter beyond regional data centers and branch offices to anywhere an organization has resources or people. The networking environment is becoming more problematic as the number of sites, locations, mobile and “internet of things” devices increases at the network edge. ...

In just a few short months, we will be at a year since the pandemic hit this country — and to say it has had a profound impact on businesses is about as big an understatement as there is. Much of the focus has been the upheaval in enterprise-class companies because they’re big organizations with ...

WiFi has been the de facto standard for wireless communications for decades, but over the past couple of years, it has come under fire from the 5G community, which has been predicting that the next evolutionary step in cellular wireless is a threat to WiFi. In fact, this thesis recently got a shot in the ...

The use of Zoom and products like it has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic began as we look to remain in digital proximity of one another while we are forced to stay socially distant. For some industries such as professional services and healthcare, the use of video is a slam dunk. for others such as restaurants and ...

Managed service provider Masergy Communications Inc. today announced two new offerings in its software-defined wide-area network portfolio that make it easier for people to work remotely. The new services fall under the umbrella brand of “SD-WAN Work From Anywhere solutions” and extend Masergy’s current managed service to the millions of people now working out of the ...