NETWORKING

In collaboration with Kenny Jones, Mayank Jain, Earl Dimaculangan   Management of multi-cloud matures Figure 1. Multi-cloud strategy adoption For enterprise IT organizations, the public cloud has become a staple at delivering software, infrastructure, security, and other capabilities at scale. Companies primarily adopt public cloud services for greater flexibility, faster time-to-market, and to take advantage of best-of-breed solutions while avoiding vendor lock-in. While SaaS platforms are the lion’s share of services consumed (48%), IaaS and…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) subsidiary Aruba Networks has announced a new offering, called EdgeConnect Microbranch, designed to simplify the complexity of work-from-home networking for enterprises. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced enterprises to change the way they use their networks as they had to support an increasing number of users and devices connecting from remote locations. During the pandemic the number of workers working remotely for enterprises jumped, reaching 72% of the total workforce, compared to…

Business technology, by its nature, is complex. That’s how we all got here – by selling the complexity. But, unfortunately, this hasn’t always led to the best customer experience. Customers want to enjoy the value of our solutions without the complexities. So we need to make things easy for them by providing a simple digital end-to-end experience that eases their path to value and is tied to their business outcomes. J.B. Wood, CEO of the…

With the calendar year coming to a close, it’s time for us to once again report our annual efforts to positively impact people and the planet. This work has been described as corporate citizenship, corporate social responsibility (CSR), environmental-social-governance (ESG), or social impact over the years, but all of it has been grounded in creating impact as part of our larger purpose to Power an Inclusive Future for All. As such, this year — and…

Comprehensive cloud support is essential when agile and efficient security at scale is required. With Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense 7.1, we have added support for the AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) to drive simple, agile, and efficient security in the cloud. This integration simplifies insertion of Cisco Secure Firewall in AWS with Geneve protocol (RFC 8926) encapsulation. It makes architectures more scalable, in part by removing the need for source network address translation (SNAT)…

More than two-thirds of U.S.-based retailers said that the COVID-19 pandemic increased risks for their organizations in 2020 and even as shoplifting rates decreased in 2021, the retail shrink rate remained steady at a 5-year high of 1.62%. In the past year, loss prevention teams have had to adapt to new priority concern areas while 44% of retailers allocated more budget to loss prevention. So, what have been the top concerns in retail security from…

As developers, we are all waking up to find a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in the Apache Log4j library. If exploited, the vulnerability allows attackers to gain full control of affected servers and your application. Like many developers, you’re probably scrambling to figure out what systems are affected and how to fix or patch this vulnerability. And to make your job even more difficult, Log4j is so widely used that you may not even…

Kaleido Intelligence recently released their competitive research report, “KALEIDO CONNECTIVITY VENDOR HUB H2 2021: COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS,” which compares the performance of the top IoT cellular connectivity vendors and how they are enabling Service Providers to expand use cases and lines of business. Kaleido Intelligence acknowledges some key challenges in the market, including “custom device and application requirements, long lead times, regulatory hurdles as well as a lack of interoperable platforms and systems”, but ultimately concludes…

It’s a great holiday season for Cisco UCS X-Series – receives TWO awards from CRN!   The CRN Tech Innovators Awards are meant to “..showcase offerings that bring significant advances in technology as well as partner growth opportunities…”1 In November, Cisco won the Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure award. It recognizes the need for transforming both your operating model while preparing your infrastructure for future technologies. Using Cisco Intersight, you manage your infrastructure from the cloud with…

Welcome to our blog series on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Each blog in this series will highlight a different Cisco employee who works closely with CSR initiatives across the company. As technology continues to advance, it opens new opportunities for communication and innovation. But at the same time, there is an increased risk of technology being used in ways that harm human rights. Cisco is committed to identifying and managing its…