NETWORKING

The world of data center networks is evolving at an ever-increasing pace. Businesses are being faced with the growing complexity of scaling data center fabrics, while also ensuring the isolation and security of customer data. Fundamental to this isolation of customer traffic is network virtualization, of which Cisco has been a constant innovator. Over the recent years, VXLAN with BGP EVPN has emerged as the de-facto industry standard for network virtualization. For as long as…

Nvidia is starting to strike deals normally reserved for CPU vendors. At the VMware Explore conference today, it announced a new data-center solution with Dell Technologies designed to bring AI training in a zero-trust security environment. The solution combines Dell PowerEdge servers with Nvidia’s BlueField DPUs, GPUs, and AI Enterprise software, and is optimized for VMware’s newly released vSphere 8 enterprise workload platform. A DPU is a processor meant to handle certain data processing tasks…

VMware is looking to ease the networking, security and management hassles of running enterprise multicloud environments with a raft of new products introduced at its VMware Explore 2022 conclave in Las Vegas this week. The new products include a SaaS-based upgrade for the company’s core networking software, NSX, as well a new cloud-native management service, VMware Aria, and integrated security features. The driving idea behind all of the new products is to simplify the growing…

A conversation with Craig Cieplinski, Senior Director of global SMB sales at Cisco How are you seeing SMBs around the world address the need to run more sustainable businesses? Craig Cieplinski: Every organization has a responsibility to operate in more sustainable ways, including small and medium businesses. One of the most profound IT advances that enables SMBs to reduce their footprint is the adoption of cloud technologies. SMBs are taking advantage of SaaS [Software-as-a-Service] apps…

Fiscal year 2022. It’s hard to believe it’s over. Some may think it flew by, others may feel like it dragged on, but however it seemed; it was certainly a year to celebrate many milestones. Looking back at the past year, the Lifecycle Advantage digital partner experience team knocked several big projects out of the park, and we hope our partners saw value in the new features and functionalities added to Cisco Lifecycle Advantage and…

Intel and Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management have announced a deal to jointly fund up to $30 billion in investments of Intel fabrication facilities in Arizona, saving Intel a lot of money in the process. The investment follows up on a memorandum of understanding the two firms signed in February to explore finance options to help fund new Intel manufacturing sites. Brookfield will invest up to $15 billion for a 49% stake in the expansion project,…

The higher education sector has a major role to play in the journey to Net Zero – both in terms of reducing its own environmental footprint and by helping to develop new climate technologies through applied research and co-innovation with industry. The convergence of digital and Net Zero is a new frontier for innovation and is another major driver for Universities digital transformation. To date the role of digital in measuring, reducing or avoiding emissions…

Now that the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2022 winners have been officially announced, you’ll want to learn more about each winning team and the story behind each innovation. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is an online competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage tech entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems. Since 2017, the competition has awarded $3.25 million USD to 78 startups from 25 countries. We are excited for you to learn more about the 2022 winning teams…

After joining the top workplace in the world, I decided to reach the top of the highest summit in the Americas. The mountain is Aconcagua, 6,962 meters high, in Argentina, and what I learnt there will guide me throughout my life. After climbing a few mountains around the world and waiting more than a year for Argentina’s borders to reopen because of Covid, I finally found myself in Mendoza, Argentina, in January of 2022. These…

VMware and IBM are widening the scope of their 20-year partnership to offer joint customers in regulated industries a secure path to hybrid cloud. Their plans include co-engineered cloud solutions that are aimed at helping companies in industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public-sector to reduce the cost and risk placing mission-critical workloads in a hybrid environment. “Roughly 25% of workloads within enterprises have moved to cloud,” said Hillery Hunter, an IBM Fellow…