NETWORKING

While some may still consider me a “newbie” to the Cisco family, I have felt at home here since day one. And, with a few months’ tenure already under my belt, it’s evident to me every day just how strong our culture is, and how Cisco truly makes it a priority to be inclusive and elevate everyone within our community. I’m honored to write this blog post today on International Women’s Day – so we…

This is the second installment of a two-part series for which Cisco asked a group of women cybersecurity experts to discuss someone who meant the most to them as an ally and how that person affected their career. Some of those experts’ responses appeared in a previous blog post . The remaining answers are presented below. Namrata Piccolo | Technology Leader, Engineering Operations, Cisco | (LinkedIn) Inspiration from a Personal to a Global Level There are…

Unified Communications (UC) has been defined in more than a few different ways.  It’s a set of technologies that continue to advance how individuals communicate with one another.  As humans, we have preferences in the way we communicate.  We send and we receive communications and sometimes it is more effective to communicate using the method the ‘receiver’ prefers.  Also, your preferred method may not be as effective as another method for you – perhaps to…

When the company I worked for was acquired by Cisco, I knew I would be working with brilliant minds and – more importantly – that Cisco was a great place to work for women. I’m proud to say, three years later, I have had a “front row seat” to watching so many inspirational women play a critical role in the growth of Cisco, while others stepped into leadership and executive level roles.  I value Cisco’s…

Flash-array vendor Pure Storage and data-center provider Equinix have teamed to deliver Pure Storage on Equinix Metal, a joint offering the companies claim can deliver physical infrastructure at software speed. The platform provides enterprises with embedded storage and on-demand availability of network and compute services, typical of the cloud. The solution is designed to support a range of storage use cases and is provided by both vendors under a single contract. Bare-metal hosting is a…

Latency and reliability concerns set car rental company Sixt on a path to rearchitect its WAN. That led the global company, which has locations in more than 100 countries, to become an early adopter of the network-security architecture dubbed secure access service edge (SASE) by research firm Gartner. SASE, pronounced “sassy,” blends SD-WAN’s network optimization features with security capabilities such as zero-trust authentication, data loss prevention, threat detection, and encryption. Driven by demand for a…

Marc Andreessen had it right – software has eaten the world. As a result, the world can be hacked. Just look at the past few months. The SolarWinds caper – the “largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen” according to Microsoft president Brad Smith – gave its Russian perps months of free reign across untold US government agencies and private companies. But stupid also works: Last month in Florida, a water treatment…

When HPE bought Aruba in 2015, Aruba’s then-president and CEO Dominic Orr said that his company had effectively acquired HP Networking. Aruba’s performance since then has largely borne out Orr’s bullish prediction, as the company has become the driving force behind HPE’s enterprise networking efforts and dramatically grown its market share, expanding beyond its roots as a primarily mid-sized campus networking provider to become a leading competitor to the market’s 800-pound gorilla, Cisco. With HPE’s…

One thing is clear about Xilinx: It isn’t waiting around for is acquisition by AMD to close. The latest initiatives from the company are a new SmartNIC card and an FPGA platform app store that features ready-to-deploy solutions for the card aimed at key markets, such as data analytics, video and image processing, machine learning, and security. The new Alveo SN1000 line features integrated “composability” features that allow for customization. Enterprise users can add their…

A year into the coronavirus pandemic, IT continues to support remote employees. As organizations begin planning to bring workers back into the office, IT must now consider upgrading their networks to best support employees in a post-COVID world. IDC Senior Research Analyst for enterprise networking, Brandon Butler, joins Juliet to discuss what permanent changes IT should implement as workers prepare to return to the office, and how these changes differ from the temporary solutions put…