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There are moments that change the course of our personal lives. These moments are inflection points—a graduation, a new partnership, the birth of a baby—events that define a clear “before” and “after.” Similar moments exist at the macro level, and these events change the course of our collective path. There are also milestone moments that stress the very core of our lives—natural disasters, pandemics, wars, or resource scarcities—that force us to reimagine a new way…

Network Operations in Enterprises and Service Providers need better visibility into traffic flows for a variety of reasons, including ease of troubleshooting, security, and compliance. Historically, this level of visibility requires leveraging network Test Access Points (TAP) and SPAN (port mirroring) to feed traffic to monitoring and inspection tools. But this approach has drawbacks, including the need for a dedicated port on the monitoring device for every TAP or SPAN destination, making the configuration very…

Just because Linux appeals to the nerdiest of nerds doesn’t mean that it can’t be extremely helpful for those who don’t want to spend a lot of time delving into the technical details of how to use various commands. In fact, Linux provides a series of tools that can help anyone master the command line or just get the task at hand done more quickly and efficiently. This post covers 10 of the best options….

AT&T, Hughes, and Verizon were selected as the top three SD-WAN providers for the third year in a row in the latest Vertical Systems Group rankings for year-end 2020. Comcast jumped to fourth place. Despite the pandemic, expansion of carrier-managed SD-WAN services in the U.S. increased 39% in 2020. Demand was resilient across bandwidth-intensive markets, but vulnerable for verticals like retail and travel. Vertical Systems Group is an independent market research firm focused on network…

In the year since Cisco revamped its DevNet certification portfolio to focus more on network programing, automation and application development, the need for those software-based skillsets has never been more important. The requirement for software skills in the networking environment is being driven by a number of factors including the tremendous increase in the use of automation, the need to have an intelligent pipeline to remote users, and the growing necessity to efficiently network and…

Nvidia kicked off its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2021 with a bang: A new CPU for high performance computing (HPC) clients–its first-ever data-center CPU–called Grace. Based on the Arm Neoverse architecture, NVIDIA claims Grace will serve up to 10-times better performance than the fastest servers currently on the market for complex artificial intelligence and HPC workloads. But that’s comparing then and now. Grace won’t ship until 2023, and in those two years competitors will undoubtedly…

So, your organization’s simplifying Kubernetes management with AWS’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Now, how are you going to secure that cluster? Whether your role is on the application team, or in DevOps or SecOps, you might be thinking: We chose EKS because agility is important to us. Similarly, we need manageable and efficient security, so we can stay focused on what only our team can do. Whether your organization is embracing a zero trust security…

For a long time, if you needed to know where your applications or data were, the answer was clear: it was always either on-premises or in a branch. Universally, almost regardless of organization size, infrastructures were contained, and visible within a defined boundary—you have a data center, a network, a branch, a user. Even if you had a few users connecting by VPN while traveling or working from home on occasion, it didn’t really impact…

There’s an adage in the world of race car drivers: the car goes where the eyes go. They don’t focus on the immediate obstacle, or the driver next to them. Being clear-eyed about where you want to go gives you the visibility you need to circumvent any challenge that may arise. The same mindset can enable industry leaders looking to digitally transform their operations into the Industry 4.0 era. Sure, it’s the technologies that comprise…

The following is based on an excerpt from the 2020 CSR Impact Report, published on December 8, 2020.  Making the world a better place with technology begins with how we make that technology. This commitment is core to our desire to power an Inclusive Future. Cisco addresses environmental and social impacts across our supply chain to ensure we uphold human rights, promote worker health and well–being, and minimize negative environmental impacts. A responsible, resilient supply chain is critical to our business success…