Dynamic Service Chaining in a Data Center with Nexus Infrastructure – Cisco Blogs

Dynamic Service Chaining in a Data Center with Nexus Infrastructure – Cisco Blogs

In an application-centric data center, the network needs to have maximum agility to manage workloads and incorporate services such as firewalls, load balancers, proxies and optimizers. These network services enhance compliance, security, and optimization in virtualized data centers and cloud networks. Data center ops teams need an elegant method to insert service nodes and have the ability to automatically redirect traffic using predefined rules as operations change. Enterprises running their data centers on the Nexus…

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Cisco and Red Hat: Cloud Native and Automation Made Easy – Cisco Blogs

Cisco and Red Hat: Cloud Native and Automation Made Easy – Cisco Blogs

Red Hat and Cisco are market leaders offering best in class technology with the solutions to deliver on the business outcomes our customers need.  Red Hat is a clear leader in cloud native with Open Shift and Ansible.  Cisco is a leader in networking and converged infrastructure, both of which matter when implementing cloud native and automation solutions. Implementing automation has become table stakes for the enterprise.  Reducing repetitive, error-prone manual tasks and streamlining infrastructure…

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Lessons that insurrection selfies hold for legitimate enterprises

Lessons that insurrection selfies hold for legitimate enterprises

The pro-Trump rioters who invaded the Capitol on January 6 came with smartphones to record and celebrate what they thought was a righteous effort to prevent president-elect Joe Biden from taking office two weeks later. Now those electronic devices, along with the GPS data they generated, are being used to track the location of rioters within the building as federal law enforcement officials continue to make arrests and build criminal cases. Among the acts being…

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Study: Cloud transformation necessary for digital transformation

Study: Cloud transformation necessary for digital transformation

Cloud migration is a necessary step for digital transformation, which is proceeding faster than planned at many enterprises because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research from Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), a cloud computing organization based in the United Kingdom. The cloud is an important steppingstone for getting off legacy on-prem technologies and outfitting today’s more flexible, remote workforce. Supporting a remote workforce requires a digital transformation, and to do that, companies need the cloud…

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Read-Only YANG Leaves: Where Does the Data Come From?

Read-Only YANG Leaves: Where Does the Data Come From?

I’m back with another question related to model driven programmability.  This one came in from David Frizelle who came to the wonderful world of Model Driven Programmability through radio.  The new O-RAN Alliance (Open Radio Standard) is using NETCONF for configuration interface. How cool is that! Here’s David’s question: When considering a read only leaf in a YANG module, if a get or get-config is done in NETCONF, the read only leaves in the YANG…

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The SolarWinds Orion Breach, and What You Should Know – Cisco Blogs

The SolarWinds Orion Breach, and What You Should Know – Cisco Blogs

What is this? On December 11th, 2020, the U.S. government and the company SolarWinds disclosed a breach into their SolarWinds Orion Platform network management software. This attack was conducted by a sophisticated and likely nation-state based attacker. SolarWinds Orion is a commonly used network management software stack used to manage complex switched and routed IT/OT architectures. High profile customers of the Orion platform are numerous U.S. government agencies, and many private entities. The adversary was…

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Supporting “anywhere operations” with Cisco HyperFlex Edge and Cisco Intersight – Cisco Blogs

Supporting “anywhere operations” with Cisco HyperFlex Edge and Cisco Intersight – Cisco Blogs

Just like the businesses they support, modern technologies are more distributed than ever before. No longer confined to a single, centralized data center, infrastructure and applications are in branch offices, retail outlets, and remote work sites. They’re spread across private and public cloud environments. And they’re fueling countless edge and IoT capabilities. What’s good for business can be difficult for IT, of course. Managing, supporting, and scaling these distributed systems and workloads can be extremely…

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Cloud Mailbox Defense: End Users Share the Product Highlights Driving Their Success

Cloud Mailbox Defense: End Users Share the Product Highlights Driving Their Success

This blog was written & authored by Rob Tappenden, Technical Marketing Engineering Leader at Cisco Simplicity. This was the key fundamental principle of Cloud Mailbox Defense that we introduced in our earlier blogs. So how did the first customers and partners to try Cloud Mailbox Defense (CMD) think we did? “We have tested dozens of solutions. Cloud Mailbox Defense is the first solution that is ‘as easy as it claims to be’. There are no…

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Machine Reasoning is the new AI/ML technology that will save you time and facilitate offsite NetOps.  – Cisco Blogs

Machine Reasoning is the new AI/ML technology that will save you time and facilitate offsite NetOps.  – Cisco Blogs

Machine reasoning can automate complex networking management tasks and create workflows for tedious processes. This groundbreaking technology in Cisco DNA Center empowers inexperienced engineers and saves time for seasoned IT pros.   Machine reasoning is a new category of AI/ML technologies that can enable a computer to work through complex processes that would normally require a human. Common applications for machine reasoning are detail-driven workflows that are extremely time-consuming and tedious, like optimizing your tax…

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Everyone’s “in” the Conversation with Webex Gestures

Everyone’s “in” the Conversation with Webex Gestures

The Create 10x Better Experiences Than in Person Interactions series focuses on enabling and empowering secure inclusive experiences in real-time or anytime, with a focus on seamless collaboration and smart hybrid work experiences Back in the day when face-to-face meetings were the norm, we used things like gestures and non-verbal cues to emphasize or support the words we’d verbally say. The feedback loop is such an important part of effective meetings. Smiles or a thumbs…

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