How Are We Going to Pay for All This IoT? Cisco Capital President Kristine Snow Has the Answer!

The IoT industry is blowing up in all directions and the growth potential is huge. In fact, depending on which analyst you ask, it might be damn near unlimited. Well, with all those devices, from the edge to the network, getting connected, pulling data and analyzing the living daylights out of it, the costs can grow almost as fast as the number of devices.

Since enterprises especially will be shelling out big bucks for new system installments, or massive retrofits, an enterprise-level solution is needed to finance that kind of capital expenditure.

Enter Cisco Capital. Cisco’s financial arm operates as a financing house, funding purchases of Cisco technology solutions, providing credit lines to Cisco’s partners and offering refurbished products at discounted rates.

We spoke to Kristine Snow, President, Cisco Capital, to find out how she works with Cisco’s clients and partners to ease the road toward IoT implementation.

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How Cisco Meraki MX customers contained Heartbleed in a day!

Why, with Sourcefire IPS, MX security for distributed sites is second to none.

Online threats abound, and securing a single network—let alone multiple networks—is a full-time job. The disclosure of the dangerous (and widespread) Heartbleed vulnerability has propelled public awareness of exploitable threats. However, the challenge of providing a rapid security response across remote sites still looms large.

In this post we’ll explain how intrusion prevention (IPS) works on Cisco Meraki MX security appliances, and how we were able to protect our customers against Heartbleed within 24 hours of its revelation — faster than our competition.

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Lobo Cisco Round Up Week Ending 10/2/15 ­ – Q1 Incentives & Cisco Security – the security industry¹s best kept secret!

Hard to believe we are approaching Cisco’s Q1 end (10/21) as such, Cisco has some great Quarter End incentives.

This week’s theme is about security - Cisco Security – the security industry’s best kept secret!!

Cisco could very well be the security industry’s best kept secret. Whether or not you were aware of Cisco’s security pedigree, we have come a long way.

Please contact me to schedule 45 minutes and review our security portfolio/security trends with Scott Collins, your dedicated Security Product Specialist.

Don’t miss this week’s security event Cisco Secure Data Center Design Clinic – 10/8 – Farmington, Ct.

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Cisco ACI Test Drive Workshop with Intel® Xeon® Processors – Norwalk, 10/29 & 10/30 (Free training – $1300 value!)

Join us and our learning partner Firefly for a two-day workshop on Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™), which runs on Intel® Xeon® processors.

This workshop focuses on helping you understand the Cisco ACI architecture and how it can be implemented. See how Cisco ACI can be applied to your network to optimize its scalability, agility, performance, and operational efficiency.

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Cisco Security – the security industry’s best kept secret!!

Cisco could very well be the security industry’s best kept secret. Whether or not you were aware of Cisco’s security pedigree, we have come a long way.

We realize Cisco might not be the first name that comes to mind when you think of security, BUT we are the number one security provider in the world with the broadest portfolio in the industry to protect against today’s cyber threats.

Did you know Cisco invested more than $3.5 billion in security?

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