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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…

Cisco and Intel have a long history of collaboration and co-development. In fact, our partnership spans more than a decade.  As Cisco’s wireless CTO, my team’s work with Intel is focused on all things wireless. User experience is foremost in mind, so we jointly work hard to optimize and simplify device connectivity, roaming and security. This means users get uninterrupted, fast, and reliable service and IT departments can easily manage, operate, and troubleshoot some of…

The author of a new report from Forrester Research says that the simultaneous growth of IoT and edge computing usage are interlinked, and that future growth in both areas will be fueled heavily by federal regulations to reduce emissions. “We cannot disassociate the advancements in IoT without talking about the effect on edge,” he said. “They’re not distinct from each other..and the effect they have on use cases is combined.” The demand for “sustainability-related service,”…

“What can love do?” It’s a bold question asked by the organizers of 1DayLA, a week-long initiative in Los Angeles (LA) that helps the city rally around beautification projects, back to school events, free medical clinics, homeless assistance, and aid distribution. Recently, I used my Cisco volunteer hours (we get 40 each year to volunteer in ways we’re most passionate) to uncover the answer and find out what love could do. This isn’t just any…

In the world of cybersecurity where information holds the keys to the kingdom, there is no shortage of data generated by numerous security tools. However, there arguably remains a lack of information. Security professionals often refer to information as ‘Actionable Intelligence’ or ‘Context’. Those engaged in the trenches of cyber warfare would appreciate a more nuanced view which states that Context is the catalyst that converts Data into Intelligence. Context helps answer important questions such…

(Enterprise Management Associates finds that enterprises are trying to improve collaboration between their network-infrastructure and operations teams and their information-security and cybersecurity teams. This article discusses challenges faced by these teams based on a survey of 366 IT and security professionals detailed in the report “NetSecOps: Aligning Networking and Security Teams to Ensure Digital Transformation”, by EMA Vice President of Research Networking Shamus McGillicuddy.) As the network engineers and architects who design, build, and manage…

The bpytop tool is similar to other performance monitoring tools available for Linux systems like top, iotop, htop, bashtop etc. It’s a terminal-based resource monitor that works efficiently and is visually appealing. The tool was ported from bashtop and rewritten in Python, so you need to have Python—version 3.6 or later—installed on your system to use it. (The “bpy” portion of the name undoubtedly stands for “bash Python”.) If you already have Python installed on…