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An evolution of digital transformation that probably would have taken years to naturally unfold was compressed into a year as the COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses and government to scramble to keep operating amid disruptions. So, what did we learn and how have companies grown as a result? That was the topic of an @IDGTECHtalk Twitter chat March 4, sponsored by @ComcastBusiness and moderated by Gene De Libero, chief strategy officer of GeekHive. Participants indicated that…

Today, an email administrator needs to get the most out of their data and reporting when it comes to the daily management of Business Email Compromise, Ransomware, Malware, and Phishing. The email administrator also has to share the data, reporting and actual emails allowing their SOC and other teams in order to perform X, Y, Z. In my video, I have provided the steps to configure the Cisco Secure Email module in SecureX. This allows…

As technology continues to advance and open new opportunities for communication and innovation, there is also increased risk for it to be used in ways inconsistent with laws or international norms regarding human rights. Cisco has long recognized that we have a responsibility to respect human rights. We are meeting this responsibility in a way that reflects the global nature of our business, the complexity of our supply chain and selling programs, and the rapid…

A look at the technologies that make up IBM Cloud Satellite Infrastructure Service As Keith Dyer (VP, IBM Alliance, Cisco Global Partner Organization) explained in his recent blog, Cisco has worked with IBM to build an offering based on IBM Cloud Satellite – IBM Cloud Satellite Infrastructure Service (IS). To recap: IBM Cloud Satellite allows clients to build and run applications in any public cloud, on-premises, or at the edge, and enables them to access…

Soon after data centers began transitioning from hard drives to solid-state drives (SSD), the NVMe protocol arrived to support high-performance, direct-attached PCIe SSDs. NVMe was followed by NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), which was designed to efficiently support hyperscale remote SSD pools, effectively replacing direct-attached storage (DAS) to become the default protocol for disaggregated storage within a cloud infrastructure. Most recently, NVMe over TCP has arrived to provide a more powerful NVMe-oF technology, promising high performance…

VMware and Nvidia have expanded their alliance to support Nvidia GPU-based applications on VMware’s new vSphere 7 Update 2. The upgraded version of vSphere 7 will support the new Nvidia AI Enterprise offering, a suite of enterprise-grade AI tools and frameworks that enables GPU-accelerated applications to run in VMware virtual machines and containers. VMware’s vSphere 7 U2 adds support for Nvidia’s A100 Tensor Core GPU and its multi-instance GPU feature, which allows for partitioning of…

If you stop and think, a lot of our expectations about network services are really about personality—our own.  We’d like our services to work, well, the way we work.  We’d like them to know us, to tune to our needs, right?  Do you think that some giant global interconnect with hundreds of thousands of elements is going to be able to do that?  Nope, which means personalized services will have to come down to the…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between March 5 and March 12. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics, indicators of compromise, and discussing how our customers are automatically protected from these threats. As a reminder, the information provided for the following threats in this post is non-exhaustive…

You’ve heard how SD-WAN and security are converging into a SASE model. Have you considered how everything will perform? That’s where the Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms Family comes in. Distributed multicloud access in SD-WAN requires high-speed connectivity that’s reliable and secure. As a result, the network must maintain high performance standards while encrypting traffic and passing it through multiple security layers.   SD-WAN Edge Platforms encrypt data and connect networking and security services In this latest…

Cisco continues to crank up the speed of its webscaler-class Silicon One devices, this week adding three new devices—including 25.6Tbps switching silicon it says delivers  1.7 times higher bandwidth and three times higher packets-per-second than other silicon on the market. Cisco unveiled the Silicon One family of unified switches and routers in 2019 as part of what it called its “Internet for the Future”  strategy.  The Silicon One family is important as Cisco has designs…