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A show of hands: How many of us make completely rational choices every time, all the time? I’m waiting. Most of us do our homework before making major investments. When buying a home or a car, for example, we scrutinize our options to ensure they fit our needs and budgets. However, intangibles like style or appearance can creep in and affect our decision-making. The opinions of others, or fear of missing out, can sway us…

Goals, we all have them. But what if, after achieving you your goals, your dreams change? And how do you even reach a goal to begin with? For me, it took a lot of hard work, dedication, and persistence. But it is exactly those things that led me to becoming a Project Specialist at Cisco for our Customer Experience (CX) team. At a young age, I was built up with so much resentment. I felt…

By: Adam Fuoss, Vice President, Pre-sales Consulting, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. When engaging in any large, transformative, and complex IT project, such as an SD-WAN deployment, experiences from those who have walked that path before are invaluable. That experiential knowledge is normally transferred in the form of individuals and partners, brought on to guide an organization through the process of scoping, architecting, and deploying. However, what’s often missing is documented information from others…

It was just two years ago that Cisco shared our view of the Internet for the Future and announced our strategy to change the economics of the internet forever. The strategy focused on innovations in the foundational building blocks that make up the internet, including silicon, optics, software, and systems. The launch highlighted the need to economically and efficiently improve connectivity by meeting the ever-growing demand for new services to digitally transform the world. At…

Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO) is a multi-cloud Application Resource Management (ARM) solution with the ability to show complex interdependencies across all layers of your infrastructure and makes recommendations and/or takes actions to ensure your workloads are running as efficiently as possible. In my previous blog, I discussed how Intersight Workload Optimizer is the starship that travels boldly through your vast infrastructure, leaving no data unexamined.   In this second blog in the series, I discuss…

Researchers at Singapore University of Technology and Design has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a family of vulnerabilities it has dubbed BrakTooth, which affects the software development kit used to program Bluetooth chipsets using the ESP32 standard. BrakTooth affects the Bluetooth Classic protocol, which is widely used in laptops, smartphones and audio devices. The team says 16 flaws make up BrakTooth, the effects of which, if exploited, range in severity from crashing affected systems to…

There’s no doubt about it; IT downtime is expensive. According to some estimates, downtime costs can range from $84,000 [1] an hour on the low end to $5 million an hour [2] for big organizations. And downtime resulting from a power failure is doubly frustrating because it’s often avoidable with an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) solution. That is when such solutions actually work. The rate of power-related downtime is steadily falling. But it still occurs….

Most of us have dealt with hardware that stays in service well past its planned end-of-life date or that, for reasons of budget and bureaucracy, doesn’t even make it into service until well into its lifespan. Step one in planning and prioritizing server-hardware upgrades is inventorying and evaluating your existing hardware, which may seem like an appropriate job for an IT intern, it’s also a perfect job for PowerShell. Read system telemetry with PowerShell The…

Physical infrastructure is central to any edge computing strategy. The power and cooling equipment and enclosure support the computing resources that run various applications and enable countless edge use cases. Deploying the right physical infrastructure is critical at the edge given that many deployments are in locations without on-site IT support and where remote monitoring and management are required. Navigating edge infrastructure is made more complicated with the broad and varied definitions of edge. These…

Palo Alto Networks has bolstered its security software to better protect  enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The company rolled out a new version of its core cloud-security package, Prisma 3.0, which includes the ability to code security directly into SaaS applications. The package includes a cloud-access security broker (CASB) to control access to cloud resources. Prisma is a cloud-based security bundle that includes access control, advanced threat protection, user-behavior monitoring, and other services that promise to…