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Over 90% of enterprises now leverage multi-cloud and hybrid (public/private) cloud environments as a critical component of their networking and business strategy. As a result, essential data and business-critical applications may reside anywhere—whether on-campus, at a branch office, in the data center, or the cloud. And of course, where these applications live should be transparent to the end-user. Secure SD-WAN provides organizations the reliable and secure connectivity and user experience they need for their cloud…

TLDR? We have an exciting webinar coming up on the 3rd of June at 9:00 AM PDT. You will learn all about SecureX third party integrations, but specifically we will discuss how to integrate AWS in a very neat way, using a Serverless Relay Module. Read more about those modules in the blog of my colleague. You don’t want to miss this one!  Register here for the webinar! Want to get started right away? Then…

Overview DNA Center is maturing into a very robust tool for the network administrator. The lessons learned over a decade from Prime guided us toward a tool that will transform the future of networks. Prime has served many organizations for over a decade; DNA Centers’ capabilities and unique UI make it a robust successor. Additionally, DNA Center can easily accomplish various network automation tasks that would ordinarily take days to achieve. Lastly, to aid in…

The Suez Canal. The discovery of the double helix. The polio vaccine. What do these things have in common? Each was a game-changing moment. And now, Lifecycle Advantage is poised for yet another game-changing moment of its own. Introducing Success Program Insights Cisco and partners can now work together to deliver customer success at scale. With Success Program Insights, Cisco provides partners the combination of customer data, rich insights and analytics, recommended actions and digital…

Part 1: Seamless Connectivity From Anywhere Today’s applications are no longer confined behind the walls of data centers. They are migrating to the cloud and being offered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). These applications are built on a distributed architecture model and run across different systems. This puts new demands on the network to become more application aware, programmable, and intelligent to deliver the best application experience to any user on any device, anywhere. In a Multicloud…

Countless municipalities are growing at an exponential rate. The City of Pearland, for example, has seen its community grow from 37,000 citizens to 122,000 citizens over the past two decades. And the Houston suburb is not alone. With populations booming, there is tremendous pressure to digitize existing processes, develop new citizen services, and scale IT infrastructure to meet increased demand. These pressures have only increased in the wake of COVID-19, as more citizens and staff…

Today, companies invest in making their security controls scalable and dynamic to meet the ever-increasing demand on their network(s). In many cases, the response is a massive shift to Kubernetes® (K8s®) orchestrated infrastructure that provides a cloud-native, scalable, and resilient infrastructure. This is where Cisco Secure Firewall Cloud Native (SFCN) comes in. It gives you the flexibility to provision, run, and scale containerized security services. Cisco Secure Firewall Cloud Native brings together the benefits of…

While we grappled physically with COVID-19, donning masks and using hand sanitizer to protect ourselves against an unseen virus, another invisible pandemic was taking hold.   Behind snarky memes and jokes about too many wine bottles on the curb, lies a grim reality: the upheaval, isolation, fear, sadness, and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted mental health across the world. In the US alone, more than 32% of consumers reported experiencing anxiety or depression as a result of the pandemic.10   How we react to that impact…

Eight months ago, I applied for a Chief of Staff role with the Privacy Office at Cisco. Initially, I almost didn’t apply because I didn’t meet 100% of the requirements – my Privacy Impact Assessments were unknown, and I was not certified as an Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E). I was worried that, as English is my second language, my grammar and communication skills might be inadequate. Hello, Imposter Syndrome. As the negative thoughts in my…

Blog 2 of a 4 part series. In this connected world, the network is the nervous system that allows everything to work together. And while it’s created limitless possibilities, it has also introduced incredible complexity, especially over the past year. In doing so, it has underscored the need for IT organizations to transform their infrastructure. Since the global pandemic began, this complexity has grown tenfold. The rollout of stay-at-home orders worldwide led almost overnight to…