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Reflecting on the nexus of Cisco’s product takeback and reuse program a year and a half after we relaunched it, Cisco VP of Global Distribution Sales Andrew Sage explains, “We wanted to make it as easy for our customers and partners to [send back old equipment] as it is to take recycling to the end of the driveway.” By streamlining and simplifying the customer experience, Cisco has made important progress toward that goal. Let’s take…

From the dot-com bust to the global financial crisis, past disruptions have led many businesses to put their digital strategies on the backburner. Organizations that continued to invest in next-generation technologies had an easier time shifting gears to speed ahead. They understood that proactive optimization and continuous transformation are necessary pathways to agility, growth, and innovation. It’s time to transform Fast-forward to 2021. Digital technology is now commonplace in nearly every industry, but organizations are…

Not to state the overly obvious, but companies have substantially accelerated their migration to the cloud over the last eighteen months. The pandemic forced them to get more done, faster, and often for less. And they found the cloud was the ultimate enabler. The move to the cloud, even with all of its promise, isn’t without challenges. Cloud-based applications may seem easy for individual users to access—just click and go. But, for IT departments, it’s…

Welcome to part 2 of the journey to Vanilla ISE, a simplified ISE GUI for endpoint technicians. In part 1 we covered the background and requirements for the UI. In this part 2, we will explore the relevant documentation to find the relevant API calls we will use. Documentation Exploration Once I had an idea for the functionality I needed to incorporate with the program, I started breaking it down to individual functions and individual…

Many challenges NetDevOps teams run up against relate to staying true to the Source of Truth approach to automation.  To truly matter, a Source of Truth must be used everywhere, not just where and when convenient.  I recently tackled on of these challenges within our network automation projects over in Learning at Cisco. For more details on Source of Truth checkout The challenge was how to keep the device inventory in our Cisco NSO servers accurate…