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Looking back and reflecting on Cisco Partner Summit 2021 , I’m still so energized by all the announcements, launches, and sessions that took place. Before we close out this calendar year and everyone takes a little time to rest, reflect and re-energize, let’s take one last look back at Partner Summit 2021. Partner Summit has long been a key event for Cisco and its Partners, and this year proved to be no different. We built…

This blog is a joint collaboration between Cisco’s Ravi Balakrishnan and F5’s Patrick Campbell Over the past 2 years, we’ve been working on enabling F5 ADC services within the Cisco ACI fabric using the F5 ServiceCenter App. This App is an agile development effort. driven by field and user input and has evolved in multiple releases which are available from Cisco’s DC App Center.   The App downloads count continues to climb evidencing its value to…

Trigger Warning: This article mentions suicide. If you or a loved one has thoughts of suicide, please contact a suicide prevention hotline immediately. Following the massive Beirut, Lebanon port explosion in 2020, it made my heart ache to see many people in my country traumatized and struggling. This was compounded by the fact that this happened during ongoing and devastating long-term socio-economic collapse that the people of Lebanon have been experiencing. As described by the World…

The whois and jwhois commands allow you to retrieve a lot of information on Internet domains–likely a lot more than you might imagine. Here’s how these commands work and how they can be useful. To get started, you probably already use nslookup to check on domain names. When you do, you’ll see output like this: $ nslookup networkworld.com Server: 127.0.0.53 Address: 127.0.0.53#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: networkworld.com Address: 151.101.2.165 Name: networkworld.com Address: 151.101.66.165 Name: networkworld.com Address:…

In my surveys of enterprises, the number worried about vendor lock-in has hovered around 90% for 30 years.  When you ask enterprises how they avoid it, they respond “standard interfaces” or “open-source”. Even today, the percentage who include “managing APIs” in their list of lock-in avoidance measures is in the statistical noise level, but APIs are perhaps the fastest-growing lock-in problem today, and they’re surely going to become a major problem in the future. API…

The proposed Nvidia-Arm merger had another roadblock thrown in front of it when the US Federal Trade Commission’s filed a lawsuit objecting to the $40 billion deal last week. The acquisition met with almost immediate opposition from UK entities when it was announced in September 2020. Now, 15 months laster the FTC weighs in and has set an administrative trial for Aug. 9, 2022. “Tomorrow’s technologies depend on preserving today’s competitive, cutting-edge chip markets,” said…

In my surveys of enterprises, the number worried about vendor lock-in has hovered around 90% for 30 years.  When you ask enterprises how they avoid it, they respond “standard interfaces” or “open-source”. Even today, the percentage who include “managing APIs” in their list of lock-in avoidance measures is in the statistical noise level, but APIs are perhaps the fastest-growing lock-in problem today, and they’re surely going to become a major problem in the future. API…

Aryaka Networks is looking to target more enterprises with a new managed secure access service edge (SASE) offering and an improved, lower cost SD-WAN offerings. Aryaka is known for offering WAN and SD-WAN services over its global Layer 2 network with more than 40 points . The new services spring from that backbone to provide additional, flexible WAN services.  The first is based on a new iteration of Aryaka’s L2 core—the L3—which is optimized for…

By leveraging technology, Cisco Partners have helped our mutual customers solve some of the biggest problems they’ve faced in recent history. And with proper training, partners can continue to help customers solve future problems—even as those problems become increasingly complex. The right skills can lead to big gains In order to solve those problems, though, individuals need to have the right training and relevant skills. Having a great sales team might get you in the…

By leveraging technology, Cisco Partners have helped our mutual customers solve some of the biggest problems they’ve faced in recent history. And with proper training, partners can continue to help customers solve future problems—even as those problems become increasingly complex. The right skills can lead to big gains In order to solve those problems, though, individuals need to have the right training and relevant skills. Having a great sales team might get you in the…