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  Guest Author: Dan Faules, Leader, Systems Engineering at Cisco   For Federal agencies, Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) has provided a comprehensive, solution-based method to address their IT telecommunications and infrastructure needs. Over the years, EIS has seen many changes that directly impact stakeholders. But its primary purpose as a key driver for the digital transformation of enterprise telecommunications and networking solutions remains unchanged. Yet many agencies, such as Networx and WITs, face contract expirations…

Technology advances are meant to improve our lives, from better protection to faster connections to simplifying and streamlining processes for better efficiency. But with every new advancement and innovative framework there seems to come a new acronym to keep track of in the already crowded space of cybersecurity tech terms. C2. CSIR. SASE. And now, Security Service Edge, or SSE. What is SSE? Cloud adoption, distributed workforces, and threats have been on the rise for…

SASE adoption has been skyrocketing since the start of the pandemic. Secure access service edge, a term Gartner coined in 2019, combines security and networking in a single, scalable, cloud-based platform that fits well in a world in which employees work from home and mostly access cloud-based apps and services. Now Gartner is pushing a new acronym. Turns out, companies might prefer to get their SASE without the “A” — just security service edge, or…

Verizon Business has added VMware to its global managed-SD-WAN portfolio as part of its Network as a Service (NaaS) strategy. Verizon made the announcement at the Mobile World Conference event in Barcelona. Verizon’s Managed SD-WAN is designed for hybrid-cloud environments and uses application-aware routing to make sure customer data takes the right path to its destination. This allows customers to use their private network for demanding, latency-sensitive apps while sending less critical data over public…

At the agency where I work we recently bought software products that required new virtual machines, and that provided the opportunity to review some of the important basices of properly assigning the hardware memory and compute to each VM. That’s important so we stay in a failover-ready state, and in our environment, that means appropriately allocating resources of the two clustered physical hosts that run VMs for our production applications. It’s even more important now…