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1 month ago

It isn’t just data centers—AI’s plumbing needs an upgrade

The coming wave of artificial-intelligence usage won’t just strain data centers and power grids—it will also stress the country’s network capabilities. Ethernet, a competing platform considered less mature for AI networking, is more widely used across all types of data centers and has a larger set of vendors selling equipment to support it, IDC said. There’s a “long tail" of …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Double Standards and Hypocrisy’: The Dissent at Cisco Over the War in Gaza

Wired

Over the past year, Cisco publicly looked like one of the few tech companies that had avoided internal backlash over its response to the war in Gaza. And as recently as two months ago, Francine Katsoudas, Cisco’s chief people, policy, and purpose officer, smiled as she posed for photos with many of the company’s employee organizations, including the one for …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

27,000 techies laid off across the globe in August, highest since January 2024

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The layoffs in tech companies has witnessed a surge in August, since January 2024. On August 1, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced plans to cut around 15,000 jobs, representing 15% of its workforce. German chipmaker Infineon announced on August 5 that it would cut 1,400 jobs globally, with an additional 1,400 positions being relocated to countries with lower labor …

Intel Cisco

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Only 4% of organisations in India ready to tackle cybersecurity risks: Cisco

The Hindu

Only 4% of organisations in India have a ‘mature’ level of readiness needed to be resilient against modern cybersecurity risks, said Cisco in its ‘2023 Cybersecurity Readiness Index’. Some 99% of the companies are getting ready to take action to address newer cyber challenges and they are also planning to increase their cybersecurity budgets in the next 12 months. “In …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Cisco Systems to lay off more than 4,000 workers in latest sign of tighter times in tech

Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Internet networking pioneer Cisco Systems is jettisoning more than 4,000 employees, joining the parade of technology companies in a trend that has helped boost their profits and stock prices while providing a sobering reminder of the job insecurity hanging over an industry increasingly embracing artificial intelligence. Combined with a wave of layoffs last year, the workforce reductions …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Cisco Layoffs: Tech Firm To Fire Thousands Of Employees From This Week, Says Report

ABP News

The US-based communication technology firm Cisco reportedly intends to trim its workforce to concentrate on areas of growth following the recent trend of job reductions by pears. The company is gearing up for a business restructuring that will result in the termination of thousands of employees, reported the news agency Reuters. However, a source familiar with the matter revealed to …

Company Cisco

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Jayesh Ranjan Faces Investigation for Alleged Violations in IT Procurement

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: After former MA&UD special chief secretary Arvind Kumar in the Formula E Race fiasco, Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary of IT and industries has come under the state government's scanner for allegedly committing irregularities in the procurement of IT infrastructure, switches and network security components for the Telangana Secretariat. Deccan Chronicle suggest that Ranjan approved procuring equipment worth `278 crore …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Tech industry in turmoil: Layoffs on the rise as companies struggle to stay afloat

India TV News

The ongoing economic slowdown is making it difficult for the tech sector to survive. According to data from Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks all layoffs at tech startups, in January 2023, 91 tech companies globally let go of about 24151 employees. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, in a recent blog post, confirmed that Amazon is continuing layoffs while firing around 18000 …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Tech Layoffs: Cisco Now Ready To Fire 4,000 Employees As Part Of Its Rebalancing Move

News 18

Joining the Big Tech layoff season, networking giant Cisco is reportedly laying off over 4,000 employees, or about 5 per cent of its workforce, in a “rebalancing” act while “rightsizing certain businesses”. “You can just assume that we’re going to — we’re not actually — there’s nothing that’s a lower priority, but we are rightsizing certain businesses,” he told the …

Cisco Certain Businesses

2 years, 2 months ago

Cisco invests in dedicated data center for WebEx in India

Live Mint

US-based multinational technology services and telecom equipment provider, Cisco, announced Tuesday that it is investing in dedicated data center capacity for WebEx, its remote conferencing, file sharing and contact center operation services suite, in India. Cisco claimed in its Tuesday announcement that the WebEx data center investment was the first of its kind for an OTT collaborations and communications service …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Apple prohibits caste-based discrimination in updated employee policy; internet reacts

Firstpost

The new category goes beyond the policies enacted in most Silicon Valley companies. Many people praised Apple for being the first tech giant to ban caste-based discrimination. Apple becomes the first tech giant to explicitly ban caste-based discrimination Apple has become one of the first tech giants to address the issue of caste discrimination by banning it in the code …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Big Tech giants like Apple confront ancient Indian caste system in the U.S.

The Hindu

America's tech giants are taking a modern-day crash course in India's ancient caste system, with Apple emerging as an early leader in policies to rid Silicon Valley of a rigid hierarchy that's segregated Indians for generations. Apple, the world's biggest listed company, updated its general employee conduct policy about two years ago to explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of …

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2 years, 11 months ago

NASA’s first Artemis moon mission will have a virtual astronaut: Amazon’s Alexa

CNN

New York CNN Business — NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, slated for take off as soon as this March, aims to send an Orion spacecraft around the moon. “Lockheed is leading the effort and we’re happy to enablethat in terms of providing a platform, just like we would do with other technology demonstrations that we think could hold future benefits,” NASA’s …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Calls to tackle caste-based discrimination in US gather steam

Al Jazeera

Dalit rights groups call for legal protections as high-profile cases at a Hindu temple in New Jersey and a major tech firm in California spur a reckoning. “If steps aren’t taken now, we run the risk of this system spreading and calcifying in the United States.” Several technology companies have faced allegations of caste-based discrimination in the workplace in recent …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Trump expands boycott calls to JP Morgan, ViacomCBS, Cisco, UPS

Daily Mail

Donald Trump has expanded the list of companies he is calling on his supporters to boycott over their opposition to a new Georgia law placing tougher restrictions on absentee voting. It came after Trump called for boycotts of MLB, Coca-Cola and Delta over the companies' stances against Georgia's new voting law, which President Joe Biden has called 'Jim Crow on …

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4 years ago

Massive SolarWinds hack has big businesses on high alert

CNN

CNN Business — The US government was rattled this week by a cyberattack that compromised a third-party software vendor’s systems and led to data breaches at several federal agencies, including the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy and the Department of Homeland Security’s cyber arm. A Cisco spokesperson told CNN Business on Friday that it had “identified and mitigated …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Biggest needle mover during covid are SMBs: Cisco India’s Daisy Chittilapilly