Cisco Podcast Network

This episode features Isabella Yani, Cisco’s Chief of Staff to Jeff Sharritts, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer and Partner Officer. With over 18 years of experience at Cisco, Isabella brings extensive leadership expertise in customer-facing, partner-facing sales, and strategic planning across all customer segments, industries, and partnership types. She is a multi-year CRN Women of the...

Mike McPhee has been with Cisco for over 10 years and is part of the global security sales organization. He works with a variety of verticals, including healthcare, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, financials, and insurance. Mike finds excitement in the ever-changing nature of cybersecurity and enjoys solving puzzles and putting pieces together to understand problems and find solutions. Join us...

Introducing Cisco Podcast Network's newest edition! In each episode, we unravel the fabric of success, from personal stories and firsthand experiences. Elevate your strategic game by tuning in to stay not only informed but steps ahead of market shifts. Our conversations offer a unique blend of cutting-edge tech developments, economic drivers, and market trajectories – all presented by the trailbla...

Cisco Live inspires technology innovators worldwide through large-scale in-person and digital events and on-demand education. Cisco Live is the premier destination for Cisco customers and partners to gain knowledge and build community. In this episode, our host, Shaun Roberts, along with Raymond Janse van Rensburg, Vice President, Specialists and Solutions Engineers, APJC, and Pallavi Arora, VP of...

The ThousandEyes Internet Intelligence team joins us from Cisco Live in Amsterdam, talking about a major theme from the event—security. Tune in to hear their thoughts on how visibility can help companies in their security efforts, the sovereignty of data in flight, and why you don’t have to choose between security and performance. ——— CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 01:09 Evolving Security Landscape 04:53 Se...

Listen to this episode and get to know better Miguel Almeida, Cisco Portugal General Manager. Discover Miguel´s career path at Cisco and some fun facts about him!

Julie Greene from Computacenter is back with Scott Schell to give an update on how Computacenter has changed over the past year.

In this episode, host Brandon Copeland is joined by ThousandEyes' Partner Sintrex. CEO Emile Biagio and Portfolio Manager Rudolf de Wet discuss the value ThousandEyes has brought to their customers, and delve into the integration that won Sintrex the ThousandEyes 2024 Digital Business Assurance Integration Partner of the Year EMEA award. Check out the following links to learn more about Sintrex: h...

What happened during the recent Microsoft Teams and Azure disruptions? Go under the hood of these incidents and also explore other recent disruptions in this week’s Pulse Update. CHAPTERS - 01:03 Network issue leads to Microsoft Teams service disruption - 04:09 Azure Resource Manager exhausts capacity, causing service issues - 06:20 Oracle Cloud experiences network outage - 09:56 Jira users encoun...

Today, we host Philip Smeuninx, Principal Engineer in Collaboration technologies in CX. He tells us stories about missed upgrades during christmas, missing ski vacations with the family as well as hunting for a lost call manager chassis in the logistics chain.

In the inaugural episode of this podcast, hosts Eric and Ben engage in a comprehensive discussion that spans various aspects of Ben's life journey. The conversation begins with insights into Ben's upbringing and the pivotal decision to become a Navy SEAL, leading to a decade of active duty and multiple combat deployments. The focus then shifts to the challenging transition from military service to...

Welcome to Line of Departure, power-packed interviews that take you on an unfiltered journey into the lives of veterans in tech who have not only served their country but have also conquered the corporate world of business and technology. In these concise conversations, we cut through the noise, and uncover the untold stories that have shaped their journey from the military to the forefront of the...

In this episode, host Brandon Copeland is joined by ThousandEyes Partner Ikusi. Ikusi Product Manager Diana Mendez Hernandez and ThousandEyes Channel Account Manager Alfonso Valencia discuss the creation of Ikusi Intelligence, how ThousandEyes has been integrated into their solution, and the value it has brought to their customers in the financial sector. Find out more about Ikusi here: https://ww...

We welcome back one of our original guest - Deanna Davenport with ePlus. Deanna shares with Scott Schell the transformation of ePlus, putting customers first and leading with services.

Welcome to Episode #6 of the newly renamed Solutions Engineering Unleashed Podcast - a change reflecting our Cisco Solutions Engineers' invaluable contribution to our customers' success. This episode delves deep into crafting and nurturing your personal brand. Our guests, Kori Younger and Darby Zero from Cisco's US Public Sector SE team and Amy Ryan, Worldwide Collaboration Principal SE, share the...

What caused recent dips in performance for OpenAI’s ChatGPT? Tune in to hear The Internet Report team unpack this and other recent disruptions, including a hack that led to an outage at the Spanish branch of the Orange mobile network, and a blip for customers of the cloud services provider DigitalOcean. They’ll also cover the outage trends they’re seeing in 2024 so far and how extreme cold weather...

AB kicks off 2024 with a fun episode featuring Nick Biasini, Head of Outreach, Cisco Talos. This is a great conversation that highlights some of the top cyber threats from 2023, while looking to what the trends in cybersecurity may be in 2024, from AI to ransomware to social engineering, and more. AB also presses Nick on his passion and commitment to making the best cup of coffee possible. Check i...

As they launch into 2024, organizations are facing a different outage landscape than they had at the start of 2023. The past year saw increases in cloud service provider (CSP) outages, application outages, and the percentage of U.S.-centric outages—all of which point to an evolution in the way outages happen and the need for different strategies to minimize the impact of disruptions. In this episo...

This episode includes one of our top EMEA Partners - ITGL. Scott Schell talks with Neil Pemberton, the Co-CEO of ITGL, about their relationship with Cisco and how ITGL utilizes data to differentiate itself.

We receive our audio editor but first of all DataCenter guru Kris Vandecruys. He tells us about SAN and the storage technologies, FiberChannel, the difference between NAS and SAN as well as the time where an SNMP monitoring script killed the whole datacenter.

Briana and Derrick talk to Principled about how XDR, or Extended Detection & Response, is helping SOC (security operations center) personnel increase their ability to detect and mitigate security breaches in real-time. The team developed personas that reflect today’s very active SOC analysts who need to detect persistent, under-the-radar threats, known as ‘low and slow’ approaches. The XDR solutio...

In the holiday special, our producer, Elizabeth Chen, anchored the episode with the host, Shaun Roberts, on the hot seat! Their chat covers 2023 reflections, including what makes any innovation an award winner, what makes Cisco the best place to work, and their holiday plans! Wishing our viewers and listeners the best in 2024! Happy Holidays! Note: Please email cisco-techinsiders-podcast@cisco.com...

As 2023 comes to a close, in the spirit of Dickens’ holiday classic “A Christmas Carol,” let’s reflect on the valuable insights left by the ghosts of network operations teams past, present, and yet to come.  Tune in to hear host Mike Hicks (Principal Solutions Analyst at ThousandEyes) discuss lessons from the NetOps teams of the past, the current state of NetOps, and what the future might hold—all...

Of all of the technologies that are imperative to the success of small and medium businesses, the most controversial and confusing is also the most critical - security. There is a swath of misinformation on security for SMBs and what they should and should not be looking for. To settle the arguments and provide some clarity to the issue, our host Ian is joined by two of his Cisco counterparts - Al...

Recent changes appeared to trigger a series of events for two peering points internationally—with very different impacts. Tune in to learn more about these incidents, why they differed, and the lessons they leave. Mike Hicks, Principal Solutions Analyst at ThousandEyes, will also cover the latest outage numbers and explore other recent incidents, including an Oracle Cloud outage and a duo of disru...