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They offer free Cisco Webex tool and installation support and help so that 1 million students can continue with their classes in a virtual way

Madrid, March 17, 2020. – More than 1 million of all private and public schools in the Madrid will be able to continue attending their classes using free tele-teaching tools.

IBM and Cisco have provided the Region of Madrid with the access, management and support of the Cisco Webex teleworking and collaboration tool, which offers simple and intuitive functionalities for e- education.

The solution – already working since yesterday – connects teachers and students in real time. More than 100,000 teachers from the Madrid already have a personal account in the service to start virtual classes. All those teachers registered in EducaMadrid (in the 2019-2020 academic year) will be able to use the platform.

“At Cisco, all workers are committed to positively impacting the country with our collaboration and our technology. We want to help everyone benefit from digitization, especially in critical situations such as the current one”, highlights Andreu Vilamitjana, CEO of Cisco Spain. “Through the Digitaliza program, we collaborate with the Administrations to guarantee the activity of companies, health centers and schools and help people preserve their health.”

From IBM we want to contribute with our professionals, technology and knowledge in the collective effort to alleviate this health and social crisis. Our goal as a company is to create innovations that help society progress and improve, with technology always aimed at the common good. On this occasion, we are especially proud to be able to contribute, combining technology and professional volunteering, to reducing the impact of the COVID 19 crisis in our country”, says Marta Martínez, IBM Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel General Manager.

The Ministry of Education and Youth has thanked the collaboration of Cisco and IBM Spain and all its volunteers who have shared the concern of that Ministry to maintain a public service as important as education. “At a time as critical as this, the collaboration of companies like these and of all of society is essential for us to come out of this crisis together,” says Enrique Ossorio.

The collaboration of Cisco with IBM is also open to all regions of Spain and possible uses in other areas of the administration that may benefit at this time from this remote collaboration platform.

Complete virtual classroom
Cisco Webex is a complete collaboration solution. Its Meetings version not only includes video conferencing, but also the possibility to share the desktop and applications, multimedia resources and surveys. Everything in real time.

These functionalities provide a complete virtual classroom, where students participate in classes in guest mode, without the need for a user account. Everything is managed from the personal room of the teacher, who “invites” the students, controls the audio -silencing the micro of the students when he needs it- and can record the session to share it or review it later.

Cisco Webex Teams version facilitates collaboration between teachers and school staff, with advanced chat, videoconferencing, and document and screen sharing capabilities in a more structured environment.

Support to the teaching community
In addition, IBM offers the teaching community support for the adoption and use of the platform. About 400 company professionals signed up as volunteers on Friday, when the company opened the request, making itself available to teachers in record time.

Volunteers from IBM Spain – who also telework from their homes using Cisco Webex – will provide tutoring for teachers so they can make the most of the platform. Likewise, they will be able to provide them with telematic help in real time in order to resolve any doubt or technical problem. Cisco has also created support video guides.

Privacy & Security
The Cisco Webex platform has more than 130 million monthly users worldwide, and processes more than 6 billion minutes of meetings every month. It is a (Cloud Computing solution that does not consume storage resources on personal computers.

Always accessible through an Internet connection, it guarantees the privacy and security of the data and content exchanged in the sessions using advanced security and encryption tools.

They offer free Cisco Webex tool and installation support and help so that 1 million students can continue with their classes in a virtual way

Madrid, March 17, 2020. – More than 1 million of all private and public schools in the Madrid will be able to continue attending their classes using free tele-teaching tools.

IBM and Cisco have provided the Region of Madrid with the access, management and support of the Cisco Webex teleworking and collaboration tool, which offers simple and intuitive functionalities for e- education.

The solution – already working since yesterday – connects teachers and students in real time. More than 100,000 teachers from the Madrid already have a personal account in the service to start virtual classes. All those teachers registered in EducaMadrid (in the 2019-2020 academic year) will be able to use the platform.

 “At Cisco, all workers are committed to positively impacting the country with our collaboration and our technology. We want to help everyone benefit from digitization, especially in critical situations such as the current one”, highlights Andreu Vilamitjana, CEO of Cisco Spain. “Through the Digitaliza program, we collaborate with the Administrations to guarantee the activity of companies, health centers and schools and help people preserve their health.”

From IBM we want to contribute with our professionals, technology and knowledge in the collective effort to alleviate this health and social crisis. Our goal as a company is to create innovations that help society progress and improve, with technology always aimed at the common good. On this occasion, we are especially proud to be able to contribute, combining technology and professional volunteering, to reducing the impact of the COVID 19 crisis in our country”, says Marta Martínez, IBM Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel General Manager.

The collaboration of Cisco with IBM is also open to all regions of Spain and possible uses in other areas of the administration that may benefit at this time from this remote collaboration platform.

Complete virtual classroom
Cisco Webex is a complete collaboration solution. Its Meetings version not only includes video conferencing, but also the possibility to share the desktop and applications, multimedia resources and surveys. Everything in real time.

These functionalities provide a complete virtual classroom, where students participate in classes in guest mode, without the need for a user account. Everything is managed from the personal room of the teacher, who “invites” the students, controls the audio -silencing the micro of the students when he needs it- and can record the session to share it or review it later.

Cisco Webex Teams version facilitates collaboration between teachers and school staff, with advanced chat, videoconferencing, and document and screen sharing capabilities in a more structured environment.

Support to the teaching community
In addition, IBM offers the teaching community support for the adoption and use of the platform. About 400 company professionals signed up as volunteers on Friday, when the company opened the request, making itself available to teachers in record time.

Volunteers from IBM Spain – who also telework from their homes using Cisco Webex – will provide tutoring for teachers so they can make the most of the platform. Likewise, they will be able to provide them with telematic help in real time in order to resolve any doubt or technical problem. Cisco has also created support video guides.

Privacy & Security
The Cisco Webex platform has more than 130 million monthly users worldwide, and processes more than 6 billion minutes of meetings every month. It is a (Cloud Computing solution that does not consume storage resources on personal computers.

Always accessible through an Internet connection, it guarantees the privacy and security of the data and content exchanged in the sessions using advanced security and encryption tools.

Infosys becomes first global systems integrator to join IBM’s new public cloud ecosystem

New York – March 2, 2020: Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, and IBM today announced a global alliance to help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation journey using the IBM public cloud.

The collaboration will help enterprises — including those in highly regulated industries such as financial services, insurance and healthcare — to transition, modernize and transform their enterprise workloads and applications by tapping into the security, open innovation and enterprise capabilities of the IBM public cloud.

As part of the relationship, Infosys will also offer its clients access to Red Hat’s portfolio of open source offerings on the IBM public cloud. This will provide enterprises a greater level of scale, resources and capabilities to accelerate the impact of their cloud-driven digital transformation.

Ravi Kumar S, President, Infosys, said, “Enterprises cannot truly succeed at digital transformation without leveraging cloud – be it transforming processes, expanding into new markets, launching new products, automating operations or elevating customer experience, cloud is the true enabler to complete digital transformation. But enterprises, especially in highly regulated and data sensitive industries are worried about privacy, regulatory compliance, security and system downtime as they embark on this transformation journey. Our collaboration with IBM will help enterprises across industries address these concerns and accelerate their digital transformation journey on IBM public cloud”

Bob Lord, Senior Vice President, Cognitive Applications and Ecosystems, IBM, said, “As businesses today continue to migrate critical workloads to the public cloud, they are also demanding the highest levels of security and control to ensure their data is not compromised. To help clients achieve this balance, we are collaborating with Infosys to provide clients – including those in highly regulated industries – with a seamless path to the IBM public cloud, which was built with their specific needs in mind.”

Infosys will be the first Global System Integrator to join the new IBM Public Cloud Ecosystem, to help bring IBM public cloud services to clients via service providers. As part of the program, Infosys will be able to deploy technical expertise from IBM to support clients in their move to IBM public cloud. IBM will work with Infosys and its clients to speed efforts such as proof of concepts, running cloud pilots, staffing client innovation centers and other mechanisms designed to deliver value quickly and securely.

Through this alliance, Infosys employees from the cloud practice will participate in training and become certified on IBM public cloud. They will be able to implement solutions on the financial services-ready public cloud, developed by IBM, to help clients in the financial services industry address their need for regulatory compliance, security and resiliency. In addition, Infosys can offer its clients services around IBM’s cloud native and open technologies, such as AI, blockchain, analytics and more. By tapping into these services, enterprises will be able to transition, modernize and transform their enterprise workloads and applications helping accelerate their digital transformation on public cloud.

With its security leadership, enterprise-grade capabilities and support for open source technologies, including RedHat OpenShift, the IBM public cloud is designed to extend the hybrid cloud strategies for the most complex enterprise workloads. It also helps provide preventative and compensatory controls for regulatory workloads, multi-architecture support and proactive and automated security, leveraging high level of encryption standards.

Infosys will leverage its vast experience, cloud capabilities and global reach to help clients migrate, modernize and transform workloads and solutions on IBM public cloud including application modernization (VMware Cloud Infrastructure and Red Hat OpenShift), mainframe modernization on public cloud, SAP HANA running on IBM Power Systems technology, IBM QRadar security analytics, e-commerce and an assortment of Infosys-led Industry Solutions. Infosys will also invest in a dedicated IBM global cloud practice that will where employees would be fully trained and certified on IBM public cloud.