All Blog Posts
Select a Category or use the search box below.
- Adoption and Change Management (25)
- Agents (7)
- Anthropic (2)
- Anthropic (4)
- Apple (1)
- Asus (1)
- Automation (10)
- Business (131)
- Cisco (30)
- Cisco Webex (2)
- Cloud and Data Center (54)
- CloudPC (8)
- Collaboration and Productivity (286)
- Copilot (94)
- Copilot+ PC (15)
- Creativity (13)
- Customer Experience (19)
- Data and AI (88)
- Data Protection (6)
- Dell (1)
- Devices (33)
- Education (5)
- End User Compute (78)
- Enterprise Infrastructure (16)
- Finance (1)
- Geeky Stuff (16)
- Google (1)
- Google (4)
- HPE (1)
- Intel (2)
- Juniper (1)
- Low Code (2)
- Microsoft (187)
- Microsoft Surface (15)
- Microsoft Teams (5)
- Observability (2)
- OpenAI (11)
- OpenAI (12)
- Palo Alto (1)
- Qualcomm (4)
- Quantum Computing (1)
- Regulatory Compliance (3)
- Security and Compliance (94)
- SharePoint (1)
- Spunk (3)
- Uncategorised (2)
- Vendor (1)
- Windows 10 (49)
- Windows 11 (96)
- WindowsInsider (22)
-
Cisco 360 Partner Program: Driving Partner and Customer Value in in the AI Era
Read more: Cisco 360 Partner Program: Driving Partner and Customer Value in in the AI EraThis blog summarises the key updates from Cisco Partner Summit 2025 regarding the Cisco 360 Partner Program and its impact on partner profitability, customer value, cross-selling, AI specialisations, and new…
-
Cisco Partner Summit 2025: The Infrastructure Behind the Digital and AI Era
Read more: Cisco Partner Summit 2025: The Infrastructure Behind the Digital and AI EraLast night I tuned into aspects of the Global Cisco Partner Summit on demand, (the live event taking part in San Diago this week). Day one messaging to partners was…
-
Cisco and Microsoft top 2025 UC Gartner Magic Quadrant
Read more: Cisco and Microsoft top 2025 UC Gartner Magic QuadrantTL:DR As a Cisco and Microsoft leading partner, it’s great to see that, yet again, both Microsoft and Cisco remain Leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for collaboration platforms with…
-
What is Cisco’s Sovereign Critical Infrastructure?
Read more: What is Cisco’s Sovereign Critical Infrastructure?Cisco yesterday announced what they referred to as a “significant milestone” in Europe’s journey toward digital sovereignty. Their Sovereign Critical Infrastructure portfolio is a comprehensive, air-gapped solution designed to give…
-
Cisco Shine: Report on The State of Smart Collaboration Devices in 2025
Read more: Cisco Shine: Report on The State of Smart Collaboration Devices in 2025Yesterday I read the “Omdia Universe: Smart Collaboration Devices 2025 report“. This was promoted by Cisco who, as you may know are currently the fastest growing Microsoft Teams Room MTR…
-
Microsoft confirm Cisco are fastest growing Teams Room partner.
Read more: Microsoft confirm Cisco are fastest growing Teams Room partner.Cisco has been named as the fastest-growing partner for Microsoft Teams Rooms. This was announced by Ilya Bukshteyn, VP for Teams calling, devices, and premium experiences at Microsoft at an…
-
Cisco Live: Every business in the world will become a tech company
Read more: Cisco Live: Every business in the world will become a tech company…and that’s what the innovations and announcements at Cisco Live this week were all centered around. in networking, security, data centers, and more that we unveiled at Cisco Live EMEA…
-
Cisco Webex One 2024 Keynote: “Experiences Amplified”
Read more: Cisco Webex One 2024 Keynote: “Experiences Amplified”The Webex One 24 opening keynote was a showcase of Cisco’s commitment to revolutionising the way organisations collaborate and connect. It highlighted several new announcements, renewed partnerships and AI innovation…
-
AI wave helps Cisco deliver beyond expectations despite Q3 revenue drop.
Read more: AI wave helps Cisco deliver beyond expectations despite Q3 revenue drop.Last week, Cisco reported its Q3 fiscal results which beat market in terms of both top and bottom-line. Cisco achieved this despite a continued decline in overall revenue, showing that…
-
Interview: Mark Brown – VP Solutions Engineering at Splunk
Read more: Interview: Mark Brown – VP Solutions Engineering at SplunkThis week, I had the pleasure of running a Fireside Chat with Mark Brown, who leads the engineering team at Splunk. The chat was streamed live on Linked In and…
-
Microsoft and Splunk Lead in Gartner 2024 MQ for SIEM
Read more: Microsoft and Splunk Lead in Gartner 2024 MQ for SIEMThe digital security landscape is constantly challenged by sophisticated threats, making the role of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems more critical than ever. In the 2024 Gartner® Magic…
-
Cisco Hyper Shield: Data Centre security redefined.
Read more: Cisco Hyper Shield: Data Centre security redefined.Cisco has introduced a new product called Hypershield, which they claim is one of the most significant security products in Cisco’s history. It is expected to be generally available starting…
-
Cisco and Splunk – For Security and Observability.
Read more: Cisco and Splunk – For Security and Observability.With the $28B aquisition now complete between Cisco and Splunk, both vendors will soon be in heavy marketing mode as they position their new combined offerings (under Cisco) to “unify…
-
Cisco announces “AI Assistant for Security”
Read more: Cisco announces “AI Assistant for Security”Last month, and now just a few weeks away from Cisco Live, Cisco have announced they are bringing a new “AI Assistant for Security” to market this year. This is…
-
2023 year in review – from the eyes of my Blog
Read more: 2023 year in review – from the eyes of my BlogHello, followers and subscribers! As the year comes to an end, I want to take a moment to thank you for your support and interest in my blog. It has…
-
Microsoft and Cisco: Leaders in the Gartner 2023 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service
Read more: Microsoft and Cisco: Leaders in the Gartner 2023 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a ServiceGartner this week published their 2023 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service. The full report from Gartner details all the players across all quadrants. This blog is a…
-
Cisco go Beyond Expectation with huge upgrade to partner incentive program at 2023 Partner Summit.
Read more: Cisco go Beyond Expectation with huge upgrade to partner incentive program at 2023 Partner Summit.At Cisco’s 2023 Partner Summit this week, Cisco annouced a massive shakeup in their partner incentive programme. I my experience (and from the partners I work with), this makes Cisco’s…
-
Cisco to Aquire Splunk
Read more: Cisco to Aquire SplunkCisco has announced that it will acquire Splunk, a cybersecurity and observability platform platform for $28 billion. Cisco say that acquisition is expected to help them create the next generation…
-
Cisco XDR uses Cohesity to help protect your org from ransomware
Read more: Cisco XDR uses Cohesity to help protect your org from ransomwareCisco has added ransomware detection and recovery support to its recently unveiled Extended Detection and Response (XDR) system. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts the end user’s…
-
Key takeaways from Cisco’s 2023 Network Trends Report
Read more: Key takeaways from Cisco’s 2023 Network Trends ReportCisco has just published their 2023 Global Networking Trends Report. This report covers some of the emerging networking trends in the multi-cloud world, and how they affect the IT operations…