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The Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System simplifies your data center, adapting to the unpredictable needs of modern applications while also providing for traditional scaleout and enterprise workloads. It reduces the number of server types to maintain, helping to improve operational efficiency and agility as it helps reduce complexity. Powered by the Cisco Intersight™ cloud operations platform, it shi...

Cisco® Nexus® Dashboard simplifies operations in today’s modern mutlicloud data center environments.  Tune in to this episode to learn about the operational simplicity realized from Cisco Nexus Dashboard and the powerful capabilities of its operational services. It a multidimensional challenge for IT to keep applications and networks in sync. With the ever increasing scope of the roles NetOps and...

In this podcast, we discuss recent features, enhancements, and deployment strategies for Cisco SD-Access.   New features have enabled additional ways to evolve an existing network into a modern, automated, and secure SD-Access network in gradual steps that minimize disruption to business or users. Network Administrators can choose their starting point in the network evolution journey depending on...

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become the standard mode of operation for public cloud infrastructure provisioning and modern development practices. However, extending IaC to your on-premises infrastructure can be challenging. Cisco and HashiCorp recently announced a joint solution, Cisco Intersight Service for HashiCorp Terraform that addresses this issue.   In this podcast we will dig into the...

Last year, Cisco created the Emerging Technologies and Incubation organization which is on a mission to revolutionize innovation at Cisco. ET&I works on breakthrough, emerging solutions outside of the core business to create new markets and incubate new businesses for Cisco.   Tune in to this episode to hear the Cisco expert, Tim Szigeti, and Cisco Champions discuss how ET&I is different from trad...

The ways your IT enables secure, trusted, and flexible collaboration is a major factor in your business’ ability to address, overcome, and even benefit from disruption, especially in these uncertain times. Given the new normal organizations have faced over the last year, it has become evident that it’s not just how your co-workers need to execute their daily operations, but also how your customers...

If you’ve ever wondered what a Cisco Champion is, you’ll find the answer in this episode. In our very first episode of the Cisco Champions Unfiltered series—where we feature Cisco Champion on Cisco Champion conversations—we have an informative, yet casual, discussion with five Cisco Champions.   In this discussion, we gain insights into their backgrounds and experiences as technologists and as Cis...

Now more than ever, sustainable and flexible building designs are at the forefront of every developer, constructor and owner’s next big project. The return on investments for creating dynamic, intelligent spaces can be "funded" by net-zero, or even net-positive designs that are easier to spec, deploy and commission with smart building technology.   You cannot automate that which is not connected,...

Known as Project Starship when it was introduced in June 2017, Cisco Intersight has come a long way. Intersight is a SaaS based platform that shouldn’t be confused with a monitoring dashboard. Yes, it has a dashboard, but it also has true infrastructure management, application optimization through Intersight Workload Optimizer, a Kubernetes service to deploy and manage consistent production-grade...

Cisco introduced End to End (E2E) Encryption in 2008 as a Webex Meeting option where only the meeting participants—and not the Webex cloud—have access to the meeting encryption key. Since most business over the last 12 months has been conducted virtually, the security and confidentiality of meetings has become a priority for our customers. Cisco expects that end to end encryption will become a com...

99% of organizations use certifications to make hiring decisions. The reason is simple: Cisco certifications bring valuable, measurable rewards to certified IT professionals and the organizations that employ them.  In this episode, we’ll explore all aspects of Cisco certifications, including how Cisco certifications stay relevant in our rapidly changing landscape, insights into test-taking and the...

Join us as we explore expansions to the Catalyst 8000 Family and the Cisco Cellular Gateway. Learn about the industry forces that drove the need to create more than just a router, including multicloud application access, remote work resiliency, and a rising secure access services edge (SASE) architecture. Kureli Sankar and Cisco Champions explore the Catalyst 8000 and Cellular Gateway capabilities...

What is all this talk about automation? How do you get started? What resources are out there to help you tackle your automation projects? Join Cisco Champions, and DevNet Developer Advocate Kareem Iskander, as they discuss 1) the DevNet Automation Exchange, 2) its use cases around automation, and 3) a special challenge for Cisco Champion Radio listeners that can earn you some cool DevNet swag.  To...

Today, applications are the lifeline of digital businesses and so organizations are under pressure to innovate with speed. But with an unprecedented rise in bad actors and malicious security threats, these organizations must be able to maintain speed while effectively protecting organizational and customer assets. Organizations must embrace an “application-first” approach to security that embeds s...

How do you know for certain that a router in your network has not been altered with since you deployed it? Wouldn’t it be great if you can cryptographically challenge your router to provide its unique identity? In addition to this, what if the underlying OS provides a secure mechanism to detect if the software has been tampered with during boot time and runtime? Tune in to this podcast to understa...

Cognitive Collaboration brings together intelligence and context throughout all collaboration experiences. Bridging AI and ML capabilities with insight and the context of the meeting or customer interaction creates more meaningful experiences and outcomes. Cognitive Collaboration fosters human relationships, enhances customer interactions, and builds high-performance teams across boundaries, enabl...

We are excited to launch Cisco Live as a truly worldwide event for customers and partners around the globe, from the Americas to EMEAR to APJC. This combined global digital event, Cisco Live 2021, will be held on March 30 - April 1, 2021, replacing Cisco Live EMEAR (February) and Cisco Live (June). With events and conferences continuing to be digital for a large part of 2021, we've reimagined the...

Cisco Fastlane+ is a co-developed solution with Apple that significantly improves the experience of any Wi-Fi 6 capable iPhone or iPad connected to a Cisco Catalyst 9130 Access Points. Cisco’s existing Fastlane solution has provided an enhanced user experience on iPhones, iPads, and Mac devices with optimized QoS prioritization of time-sensitive applications.   Tune into this episode to learn how...

How do you create exceptional customer experiences? Contact centers play an essential role in shaping a company’s direction and have become a strategic imperative to driving customer loyalty, innovation and business growth. No other part of your organization touches customers more closely.   Tune in to this episode to learn more about Cisco Contact Center and hear how the next-generation contact c...

Intersight Workload Optimizer is an exciting new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that helps customers solve the critical problem of assuring workload performance while maximizing infrastructure utilization, both on-premises and in the public cloud.   Tune in to this episode to learn how Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer simplifies application resource management across complex, hybrid clou...

Machine Reasoning is a new category of AI/ML that you will soon hear a lot about. It saves your IT team time by automating complex and tedious networking tasks. It can also bridge the skill gap by providing automated workflows that empower your newer engineers to perform complex troubleshooting. Cisco is proud to demonstrate industry leadership with these advanced capabilities in our Enterprise ne...

Data helps businesses make sound decisions, and Meraki MV smart cameras have made it easy for organizations of any size to derive additional value from their smart camera deployments. But as powerful as these cameras are, with machine learning technologies and rich analytics, there are simply some physical attributes - like temperature or humidity - that cannot be easily determined by the camera....

Traditional approaches were not designed to handle the data volume, velocity, and variety that occurred with the rise of digital transformation. The advent of big data created a need for a different kind of infrastructure architecture. Hadoop distributions became ubiquitous as the volume of data continued to soar.   Now more than a decade after the big data trend started, the market has consolidat...

Cisco Champion Radio will be on a holiday break until we return to kick off Season 8 on Monday, January 4. We wish you a relaxing and safe holiday season.

For organizations to thrive in this new reality, they need to be resilient enough to enable growth and innovation in a dynamically changing world. Unfortunately, with cyberattacks on the rise, and more people are working away from the office—stressing digital infrastructures, the need for a secure workplace and workforce has never been more critical.  In this episode, we’ll explore how Cisco is re...