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By David Smith, Distinguished Architect   The ongoing global pandemic, now approaching its third year, has profoundly illustrated the critical role of the internet in society, changing the way we work, live, play, and learn. This role will continue to expand as digital transformation becomes even more pervasive. However, connecting more users, devices, applications, content, and data with one another is only one dimension to this expansion. Another is the new and emerging types of…

With the introduction of Wi-Fi 6E/6GHz, there is a huge increase in available RF space, multiplying the overall total capacity of any wireless network, and at the same time, removing sources of interference and noise. This increase in performance and quality of the wireless connections will be really exciting and bring multiple opportunities, but this will come with the price of new and better security requirements for our WLAN/SSID configuration migration. The new standard did…

In this age of digital transformation, application availability is vital for business success. As our customers continue to deploy hybrid cloud environments – connecting applications from the cloud back to systems and data they maintain on premises and on the edge – keeping applications and data available 24/7 for all workloads can be a real challenge. In response, Cisco and Veeam have partnered to help customers ensure application and data availability. Cisco and Veeam together deliver solutions to secure,…

What is NDFC? Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) is the new, power-packed, feature-rich service (formerly Data Center Network Manager or DCNM) exclusively available on the Cisco Nexus Dashboard (ND). NDFC embraces a Kubernetes-based microservices architecture. With the introduction of NDFC Release 12, users get a consistent experience across NDFC and other services hosted on Nexus Dashboard including Insights and Orchestrator. NDFC provides comprehensive lifecycle management, configuration, and automation for Cisco NX-OS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, as…

Data center operators are weighing new approaches to thermal management as they deal with growing compute requirements and strive to achieve sustainability goals. They’re not alone in prioritizing sustainability: Enterprise IT buyers are increasingly looking for data centers with sustainability credentials and are making purchasing decisions based on the presence of practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That’s the crux of findings from research and advisory firm Omdia, which last week unveiled its Data Center…

Release 9 of Rocky Linux just made its public appearance on July 14, and the big news is something called Peridot, which anyone (yes, anyone) can use to reproduce Rocky Linux 9 from scratch on their own. This is a truly exciting turn for the Linux community. If you’re not familiar with Rocky Linux, don’t be too surprised that it made it to Release 9 and you’re just now tuning in. “Release 9” doesn’t mean…