NETWORKING

Complex SD-WAN environments, with hundreds of locations deployed by large enterprises or managed by service providers, can overwhelm IT teams. In such environments, even centralized management systems can be too slow and too cumbersome to see and respond to the demands of large numbers of network edges and end users. Many organizations rely on automation to ensure reliable connections, consistent cloud on-ramp, and dependable VPN connections in large SD-WAN deployments. But most automation is only…

A few years ago, only hardcore techies and television fans were cord-cutting. Today, there are more people watching streaming shows than there are paying for cable or satellite TV.  There are three reasons for this shift. First, the best live TV streaming services now offer pretty much anything you’d ever want from a traditional TV service. Second, even though live TV streaming services costs are catching up with cable, for now, they’re still more affordable….

The world has changed around us, and there is no going back. The digital transformation we have been talking about for years has been accelerated in a matter of months. Initially, remote work was seen a way to keep businesses up and running for the ‘time being,’ but we now see that this is the path forward for a more resilient business. A survey of CFOs by PwC found that 54 percent of their companies…

Enhanced client to app monitoring and analytics SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced a network observability software, DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF), on Arista switching platforms for enterprise-wide traffic visibility and contextual insights. Network observability is the next-generation, analytics-driven approach delivering network visibility across data center, campus and edge use cases. This new offering enables mission-critical monitoring for enterprise-wide traffic while improving efficiencies and reduced opex through the adoption of modern cloud networking…

How Engaging, Aligning and Empowering across the Organization Can Be Most Effective Recently in an interview for the CX Leader Podcast, VP of Customer Experience (CX) Digital Lifecyle Journeys Steve Cox and I had the opportunity to reflect on our CX journey at Cisco. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do at Cisco, and creating an organizational culture to engage, align and empower employees is particularly critical to delivering the best customer…

The pidof and pgrep commands provide listings of process IDs (PIDs) for process names that you provide as arguments. This post shows how to use these commands and illustrates the differences between them with a series of examples. pidof There are a number of ways to determine the PID of a process running on a Linux system, but the easiest is probably a command called pidof. Read this as “PID of” and you’ll have an…

Nutanix has expanded the capabilities of its Objects and Files unstructured-data storage offerings with new hybrid-cloud capabilities for deploying a scale-out storage fabric across their various cloud environments. These new storage services are built on the recently launched Nutanix Clusters, which support Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software running in AWS and, eventually, Microsoft Azure. New features include cloud tiering for object storage, hybrid-cloud file storage, and simplified disaster recovery. “IT teams around the world are…

Register to attend the December 14 webinar: Protecting your Cloud-Native Applications with Cisco Secure Workload This blog is authored by Ed McNicholas, Cybersecurity Technical Solutions Architect for the Cisco Global Security Sales Organization Automating and implementing a secure, zero-trust model for micro-segmentation based on application behavior and telemetry is easy to do using Cisco Secure Workload (formerly known as Tetration). See how your business can seamlessly achieve workload protection by providing: Reduced attack surface –…

Aruba has taken the wraps off new orchestration software and switches that target users looking to build and support distributed data-centers. Aruba Fabric Composer software simplifies leaf-and-spine network provisioning across the company’s CX switches and automates operations across a wide variety of virtualized, hyper-converged, and HPE compute and storage environments. The Fabric Composer runs as runs as a virtual machine and eliminates the need for networking teams to manually configure CX switches. It offers workflow…

Looking to shore-up its intent-based networking software portfolio, Juniper has said it will buy Apstra for an undisclosed amount.  Founded in 2014, Apstra’s claim to fame is its flagship Apstra Operating System (AOS) software which was developed from the start to support IBN features. Once deployed, AOS keeps a real-time repository of configuration, telemetry and validation information to constantly ensure the network is doing what the customer wants it to do. AOS also includes automation…