Cisco’s Webex gaining new audience engagement capabilities
Cisco’s Webex Suite introduces some exciting updates after the acquisition of Slido s.r.o and Socio Labs Inc. Audience engagement capabilities will be a groundbreaking addition for those still working from home.
Why is Cisco updating the Webex suite?
Cisco Systems Inc.’s collaboration and...
Cisco acquires security company Kenna Security
Cisco has announced its plans to acquire Kenna Security. Kenna makes a platform for vulnerability management, which Cisco wants to incorporate into its own SecureX offering.
Kenna's market is called risk-based vulnerability management. The company uses a combination of machine learning and other...
Cisco acquires Sedona to deliver automated routed optical networking
The acquisition will accelerate Cisco's move into optical and nonoptical solutions to help CSPs.
Cisco Systems this week announced plans to acquire Sedona Systems. The new acquisition is a startup that helps software tcompanies monitor the health of their networks and simulate changes. The terms...
Cisco HyperFlex web interface has critical vulnerabilities
Cisco has revealed that there are some critical bugs in its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure product. CVE-2021-1497 affects the HyperFlex HX Installer Virtual Machine and means a remote hacker could perform a command injection attack.
The attack would be targeted to hit a web management c...
Cisco also pessimistic about short-term chip supply
Cisco expects the chip shortages to affect global supply chains for at least another six months. Even after that, it will be some time before the problems are really solved.
In an interview with the BBC, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says that the company does not expect any relief in the short term. ...
Cisco, Dell and Lenovo reveal Ice Lake servers
Following the announcement of the new Intel Ice Lake server processors, several manufacturers have unveiled their updated server line-up. In large part, these are modifications to existing servers in order to be able to work with the new processors.
Cisco comes with three new models: the UCS B20...
Cisco introduces subscription model for hardware
Cisco has introduced Cisco Plus. This is a subscription model that allows customers to purchase Cisco equipment and pay for it periodically.
Cisco Plus makes it possible to purchase computer, network and storage equipment via an as-a-service model. In combination with Cisco's growing software po...
Cisco integrates ThousandEyes in switches and AppDynamics
During Cisco Live, Cisco traditionally makes many announcements. One of the most interesting announcements today is the one about ThousandEyes, which it acquired last year. Cisco has now integrated that company's monitoring solutions into some of its own products. These include integration into the...
Cisco and HashiCorp integrate Intersight and Terraform for multi-cloud
Cisco announced that it is integrating its cloud-based data centre management service Intersight, with HashiCorp's multi-cloud infrastructure automation service Terraform. The integration will give Intersight customers an easy way to automate and provision multi-cloud infrastructure using an infras...
Google announces Network Connectivity Center
Google Cloud has announced its Network Connectivity Center. It is a tool that allows users to manage networks in the cloud and on-premise. This should simplify the management of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments.
Users of the Network Connectivity Center can use the tool to connect to VPN...
Privacy is about more than data and compliance
Recently, we published a report on the Data Privacy Benchmark Study by Cisco. The main theme of the results of that study is that the events surrounding the corona pandemic have led to a higher appreciation of the concept of privacy among organisations worldwide. We spoke with Michel Schaalje, Secu...
Cisco: importance of privacy increased during Covid-19 pandemic
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the burden on personal privacy increased considerably. To prevent the spread of the virus, people had to share personal information and became more dependent on digital communication.
This emerged from a study conducted by Cisco among 4400 security experts in 25 dif...