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In its second cloud-native technology acquisition in as many months, Cisco is buying container security firm Banzai Cloud for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2017, Banzai is known for developing Kubernetes-based cloud application development and security technologies. It will become part of Cisco’s Emerging Technologies and Incubation group, where the company brews new projects for cloud-native networking, security and edge computing environments. “As modern cloud-native applications become more pervasive, the environments in which these applications…

Innovative partners across Cisco’s ecosystem are creating new ways to leverage DevNet, when building new ways to serve their customers’ needs in today’s new normal. One of our fastest growing national partners is NWN Corporation, who have integrated our collaboration, contact center, security and networking capabilities into their award-winning Solution-as-a-Service portfolio. NWN’s Cloud Communications and Infrastructures solutions help transform the customer experience by integrating everything an organization needs to operate from anywhere – from the…

VMware is extending its core virtual networking product family in an effort to help companies build infrastructure that can stand up to today’s challenges, including the shift to remote work and the need to securely move applications across the distributed enterprise. The enhancements span VMware’s Tanzu, NSX and SD-WAN products, which fall under the company’s Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) architecture. VCN defines how customers can built and control network connectivity and security from the data…

As Heraclitus said more than two thousand years ago “The only constant in life is change”. As a society, we’ve experienced it first hand over the last eight months, with the far-reaching, cultural shift of virtual experiences replacing in-person gatherings in both our personal and professional lives. The same holds true for the networking industry – a remarkable pace of change has occurred over the last decade. Significant technical innovations including software-defined networking, virtualization, disaggregation,…

Instead of hopping on planes this year, we’ve been hopping on Webex calls. And while working from home, we’ve been extraordinarily productive. The way everyone is making it a priority to connect and collaborate virtually, knowing that we can’t be together physically, has been truly inspiring. Through it all, we’ve witnessed how the events of 2020 have unleashed incredible innovation and digital transformation across the business landscape. Forrester predicts this trend will continue: the research…

It’s an incredible time to be using LinkedIn Ads right now. Both usage of LinkedIn as well as the advertising platform have been growing significantly. LinkedIn now officially has a total of 660 million members, and it’s growing fast. According to  Microsoft’s quarterly filings, LinkedIn made ~$2.1B last quarter, putting LinkedIn Marketing Solutions at an estimated $420 Million (up 24% from the previous quarter). This growth is exciting because advertising costs per click stayed relatively…

Emmastella Gakuo, cofounder of Savanna Circuit Tech This blog comes from Emmastella Gakuo, cofounder of Savanna Circuit Tech and a trained journalist turned multiple-award-winning entrepreneur, maker, gender advocate, and woman in technology. Her business, Savanna Circuit, provides innovative cooling on transit solutions for value chains in East Africa. Emmastella won the grand prize of the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2020. She will present at Cisco’s Women Rock-IT event on November 19. Click here to…

In this intensely competitive Financial Services market environment, Banks, Insurers, Securities & Exchanges, and Wealth Management institutions, whether a small business or global enterprise, are increasingly challenged to find the optimum balance to minimize workplace disruptions for remote workers and at brick-and-mortar office locations, protect proprietary data, and understand how hybrid cloud operating models will impact business performance. Key considerations include the following: Ways to accelerate digitization of Remote Work and Trusted Workplace Ways to…

As modern cloud-native applications become more pervasive, the environments in which these applications run are becoming thinner (containers, microservices, functions), increasingly distributed and more geographically diverse. Emerging cloud infrastructure technologies give rise to unique implementation challenges as the modern cloud-native application relies on the network to provide application and API connectivity and a runtime platform for an ever-changing cloud topology. Addressing these challenges will drive developer agility and reduce friction so they can focus on…

Sensor power loss is the scourge of IoT. Deploying millions of sensors is pretty much a useless endeavor if the devices continually run out of power. IoT sensors can’t collect or transmit data without power. That’s one reason researchers are exploring ambient energy harvesting. Numerous projects have shown that small amounts of power can be generated by converting ambient energy in the environment – from stray magnetic fields, humidity, waste heat, and even unwanted wireless radio…