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The old saying “adversity makes for strange bedfellows” has been proven true, with Nvidia saying it is now willing to work with Intel’s foundry business to manufacture its chips. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang dropped the news on a press call when he was asked . about diversifying the company’s supply chain, which relies on TSMC for its chip manufacturing, and TSMC is both overloaded with orders and in a politically unstable region of the world…

This blog is authored by Amandeep Singh, Technical Marketing Engineer – Technical Leader at Cisco We have some exciting news: the popular Application-First Security lab with AWS has been updated, and it is better than ever! It has now been redesigned to follow the Cisco Validated Design “Securing Cloud-Native Applications – AWS Design Guide”. We also have an updated DevNet Sandbox, which you can use to go through this lab. This lab is “ByoAWS”, or…

Many organizations still use a traditional hub and spoke architecture to connect offices to the data center for application access. However, with users working remotely and applications distributed across multiple clouds and the need for cloud application access, older network architectures can reduce productivity. Network edges are no longer a branch or a campus. The edge may be at home, in a car, a motel room, or a coffee shop. No matter where users are,…

Going ‘Under the Hood’ to get a closer look at the Intersight Workload Optimizer Decision Engine – Blog 1 of 3 in a weekly series where we dig a little deeper into the technology behind the Workload Optimizer service of Intersight. A little over a year ago, Cisco debuted a new service on the Intersight Platform: Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO). At its core, IWO is a powerful decision engine that constantly acts to assure workload…

The global enterprise IoT market grew by 22% to a total of $157.9 billion in 2021despite some adverse conditions  labncluding labor and chip shortages, according to a study released today by Germany-based research firm IoT Analytics. That figure is slightly lower than the 24% that the company projected in previous reports, but it’s still a substantial rate of growth, and one that IoT Analytics expects will be sustained for the next five years, for a…

Click-and-collect fulfillment and contactless payment have led the expansion of contactless retail. However, new variations on “contactless,” including automatic replenishment and other forms of engagement streamlining and purchasing, are growing. These options give consumers safe and convenient ways to shop and receive products while providing retailers new ways to develop brand loyalty, increase share of their customers’ wallets, and reduce costs. Contactless retail may have gotten a push from the pandemic, but the convenience consumers…