NETWORKING

The statistics on homelessness are hard to ignore. More than 20 percent of the world’s population – 1.6 billion people – lack adequate housing. In the United States, more than a half million people are experiencing homelessness on any given night. These numbers have undoubtedly grown as the pandemic has caused people to lose jobs, salary, and the ability to pay their mortgage or rent. I’ve spent much of my career focused on programs designed…

Integration of Arista AI-driven network detection and response with Microsoft Azure Sentinel optimizes security operations SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET), a leader in data-driven networking, today announced it has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of independent software vendors and managed security service providers that have integrated their solutions to better defend against a world of increasing threats. Arista was nominated based on an integration between Arista’s NDR (Network Detection…

We’ve all seen how the global pandemic has accelerated IT trends that were already well underway. To stay competitive, many are turning to digital transformation as the strongest path forward. In a recent Cisco-commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, Operational Agility is the New Imperative, 72% of participants said they will accelerate their efforts to digitally transform their business. Organizations are also focused on increasing their agility to adapt to changing business conditions and increasing…

Cisco and Intel have extended their technology relationship to enable Cisco Wi-Fi gear to gather data from Intel-based PCs in order to troubleshoot and optimize wireless connections for end-user machines. The companies announced Intel Connectivity Analytics, a feature that helps to evaluate Wi-Fi connectivity and for IT teams to monitor wireless resources. The feature is supported by Intel-based PCs deployed with Wi-Fi 6/6E chipsets and Cisco Wi-Fi offerings including the Cisco Catalyst 9800 series wireless-controller…

Cisco Meraki Dashboard API just matched 3 candy canes 🍭🍭🍭, exploded a color bomb booster 🧨, and powered their way to 2 levels 🆙 by updating a whole new set of APIs in their inventory! Look at this list of new updates below. Then please use the comments section below to let me know how you plan to use these to get things done at a massive scale. I would love to hear from you….

NetHope is a journey that we needed to take. Cisco started the Networking Academy program in 1997 with the intent of teaching students – whether they were in the technology field or not – to design, install, and maintain networks. Most importantly, we wanted the program to help people around the world gain a seat at the digital economy table. By the early 2000s, we realized the impact the program was having and wanted to…

Cisco announced the new Cisco Enterprise Agreement (EA 3.0) at Partner Summit 2021 to rave reviews from partners and industry leaders. As we plan for general availability to partners in early 2022, now is the time to prepare so that Cisco and partners can work together to deliver solutions our customers need. With this in mind, I talked with Data#3 to hear their thoughts.   The new Cisco Enterprise Agreement (also known as EA 3.0)…

Networking equipment was the news of the day at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), with new hardware for improved end-to-end performance. Nvidia announced the Quantum-2 platform, a 400Gbps InfiniBand networking platform consisting of the Quantum-2 switch, ConnectX-7 network adapter, BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU), and all the software to support the new architecture. At 400Gbps, NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand doubles the network speed and triples the number of network ports over the Quantum-1 product. With a…

The WAN as initially conceived was about one simple job: the WAN was the network that “connects my sites to each other.” That is, the network connecting users in corporate sites to corporate IT resources in other corporate sites or perhaps colocation facilities. It was all inside-to-inside traffic. Over the past decade so much has changed that, just before COVID-19 work-from-home mandates took hold, only about 37% of a typical WAN’s traffic was still inside-to-inside,…

Hardware is incredibly hard to come by these days. However, software isn’t. Simply by adding some software to your existing hardware you can completely change its functionality–like I recently did in order to avoid porch pirates. Want to know more about Cisco’s latest software innovations? Check out all the announcements and session replays from Cisco Partner Summit 2021.   We’d love to hear what you think. Ask a Question, Comment Below, and Stay Connected with #CiscoPartners…