Meraki has always focused on simplifying powerful technology so our users can focus on their own mission. Originally, cloud managed wireless allowed users to deploy large, sophisticated wireless networks and reach more people. The...
Today's bankers have no shortage of headaches. Agile "fintech" challengers, tech-savvy customers, complex compliance demands, legacy-burdened IT environments - all conspire to keep them up at night. But there is great news for ret...
This is a guest blog written by Sunil Gudurvalmiki, Product Manager, Insieme Business Unit. Data center operations teams are increasingly looking at tools to automate and simplify the manual tasks. In addit...
I'm in Vienna this week at the Pioneers Festival, which describes itself as "the epicenter of innovation." Surrounded by 2,500 technology pioneers, including 500 of some of the world's most promising early-stage startups, I defini...
Do you remember the childhood game Gossip? Maybe you played it. A secret message is whispered from one person to the next until it reaches thelast person who says out loud what they believed they heard. Whether by an honest misund...
By Oded Ashkenazi,Group Leader, STARE, Service Provider Video Software and Solutions, Cisco Few would argue that data security has become one of the most pressing technology issues facing the world today. Nonetheless, despite the ...
For such a basic idea, BYOD can turn into a complex issue. Network administrators at ROC Friese Poort, a school of 13,000 students in the Netherlands, were concerned that their wireless network's capacity and performance wasn't r...
Let me begin with some nostalgia. Allow me to transport you back to the 1990s... when fashion got rid of shoulder pads, a new rock sound was coming out of Seattle, South Park and The Simpsons brought crude humor to the masses, and...
Many service providers have yet to tap into the full business potential of IT-as-a-service. If they're willing to invest the time developing the relationship with their channel partners, the returns could be considerable. The dram...
It is nearly impossible to miss the business transformation taking place in every organization. As consumers, our smart devices have trained us to expect delivery of information or services at near instant speed. But w...
My youngest daughter, a very energetic happy-go-easy fourth grader, was looking over my shoulder as I was working on this blog. "Dad, why talk about going back to school before the summer break even starts?" Good point, considerin...
This is the final post in a series that has been focused on providing different ways to think about the job of a modern day software technology architect. The series began with the idea of defining an architecture that blends phys...