News@Cisco: Top Stories

Mobility In The Construction Industry Means Lots of Moving Targets

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:00:00 PST

November 19, 2008 On the surface, a construction company breaks down into the same sort of connectivity chunks as most other firms, except that a lot of its remote offices are actually job sites: dynamic, dirty, dangerous, and often in remote areas with no existing communications ...

Cisco Creates a Mega-Router for Super Surfing

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:00:00 PST

November 11, 2008 By Charles Waltner It's the story of the little technology that could. Ethernet, once the obscure inhabitant of back office computer systems, has now moved center stage in the communication revolution. In efforts to upgrade the world's networks for handling rapidly increasing traffic payloads brought on by the Internet - particularly video-based communications and entertainment -

Cisco Makes $100 Million Bet on Small Businesses

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:00:00 PST

November 10, 2008 By Charles Waltner As part of its ongoing initiative to increase sales beyond its sweet spot with major corporations, Cisco Systems is now turning it sights on small businesses, especially those with fewer than one hundred employees. Today the company formally announced a $100 million initiative to re-invent its small business operations. As part of this effort, Cisco has made substantial management, sales, and product changes over the ...

Exchanges and Trading Houses Analyze Traffic by the Millisecond with Cisco Bandwidth Quality Manager

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PST

October 29, 2008 By Jason Deign What is a second worth? Possibly not too much to you or me. But if your business has anything to do with trading on the world's major financial markets, where values can soar ...

New study pinpoints bad staff behaviors, not hackers as primary source of data leakage

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PST

October 28, 2008 By Alan Radding When Benjamin Craig managed networks at a US Air Force base overseas in the late 1990s , he realized he could not assume even military people were computer security aware. "We needed to train people about social engineering," he recalls. Social engineering refers to techniques hackers use to trick people into revealing passwords or allowing access to computer systems.

The Cisco Networking Academy Works with UNIFEM in Jordan and Morocco to Help Get Women into IT

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PST

October 27, 2008 By Mike Stone The Cisco® Networking Academy® and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) are working to help ...

Cisco Networking Academy Students Wire Political Conventions, Area Schools Receive Free Gear

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PST

October 23, 2008 By Bill Roberts Attending one of the U.S. presidential nominating conventions this year was the experience of a lifetime for Joy Das and Ryan Robison. But for these two budding information technology (IT) professionals, the chance to observe history was only ...

IT Must Reinvent Itself In The Telecom Industry

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PST

October 23, 2008 IT in a telecommunications firm faces all the usual challenges of its enterprise counterpart, plus a long-running conflict with the other technology-driven departments: engineering and operations. Getting them to work together to more effectively support ...

Egypt Pledges to Open 1000 New Cisco Networking Academies by November 2009

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PST

October 22, 2008 By Mike Stone From the pyramids to the Aswan dam, Egyptians have never been shy about thinking big. And young Ahmed Korany Zaki is no exception. Despite a lack of educational opportunities throughout his childhood, ...

Technology Enables Retailers to Succeed in Overseas Markets

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PST

October 20, 2008 By Evan Schuman Static domestic markets-and perceived opportunities in established and rapidly growing emerging markets-have lured Western retailers to cross borders in search of new business. But many have learned the hard way that what ...

Recovering Addicts Find a Road to Recovery through the Networking Academy in Mexico City

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PST

October 20, 2008 By Jason Deign Saúl Machorro, 39, peers intently at a computer screen on a Formica-topped table in a sparsely-decorated room in Naucalpan, on the outskirts of Mexico City. Nearby, a number of Cisco® routers and switches hum and flicker unobtrusively. ...

Make Change Management Easier By Using Technology As A Carrot To Overcome User Resistance

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PST

October 6, 2008 All CIOs have to deal with user resistance to change, but it's more pronounced in healthcare, where the conservatism of users is an essential part of their medical ethics-"first, do no harm." Albert Molas confronted that problem during the building of Hospital d' ...

Meeting The Challenge Of Growth In The Pharmaceutical Industry

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PST

October 6, 2008 In some ways, Jennifer Allerton, CIO of Hoffman-La Roche, the fifth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, faces the ultimate data management challenge: collecting, storing, organizing, classifying, and understanding vast amount of research and ...

Korea Ranks First in Broadband Adoption Among 30 OECD Member Countries

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PST

October 1, 2008 By Bill Roberts Koreans who do not want to use a credit card do not need online payment services to shop on the Internet. The nation's banking system installed a real-time direct settlement capability many years ago on the country's networking infrastructure. ...

Positive Approach Shows How Education can Help Stimulate SMB Competitiveness in Eastern Europe

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PST

October 1, 2008 By Jason Deign Small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) in Serbia are learning to love the benefits of Cisco® technology thanks to a slew of educational efforts. The eastern European country, with a population of 7.4 million and gross domestic product ...

A Year after Launch, New Cisco Networking Academy Curricula are a Hit with Instructors and Students

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:00:00 PST

September 29, 2008 By Jason Deign For the past year, learning about IT has been a voyage of Discovery. Or Exploration. CCNA Discovery and CCNA Exploration were the names given to two new versions of the Cisco Networking Academy CCNA curricula in June 2007.

Cisco Unveils its Answer to Web 2.0

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:00:00 PST

September 24, 2008 by Charles Waltner Cisco Systems is selling peace of mind to IT. These days, the people responsible for managing the computers, software, and networks that run modern businesses are in a tough spot. The realities of this new era - driven by the second wave of Internet innovation - are crashing down upon them as employee demand soars for technologies that are evolving faster than ever. At the same time, businesses still need ...

BT Innovation: A $19.8 Billion Network : The World's First National All-IP Network

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:00:00 PST

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Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:00:00 PST

NHL Team Scores with Cisco

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:00:00 PST