NETWORKING

If you purchase a server in the next few months featuring Intel’s Sapphire Rapids generation of Xeon Scalable processor or AMD’s Genoa generation of Epyc processors, they will come with a notable new function called Compute Express Link (CXL)—an open interconnect standard you may find useful, especially in future iterations. CXL is supported by pretty much every hardware vendor and built on top of PCI Express for coherent memory access between a CPU and a…

According to a recent Dell’Oro Group report, the SD-WAN market expanded by 35% in 2021, exceeding industry predictions. And that trend is expected to continue as SD-WAN continues to prove itself a vital technology for enabling reliable and consistent on-demand connectivity. Its ability to provide rapid cloud on-ramp, accelerate access to applications, monitor and resolve connectivity issues, and maintain optimal user experience enables organizations to compete effectively in today’s digital marketplace. And as SD-WAN usage…

By: Derek Granath, Senior Director, SD-WAN Product and Technical Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. A Quick History Lesson Believe it or not, the term Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) was first introduced back in 2014, practically ancient history when it comes to networking at the edge. It’s now well recognized and increasingly adopted as the cloud-first way to transform WAN architecture, improving application performance, enabling more efficient connectivity, and reducing network complexity. Secure Access Service…

The enterprise network is undergoing a fundamental transition from manual to automated, from hardware to software-defined, from tightly controlled to sprawling across SaaS, multi-cloud, remote work and IoT environments. Network professionals are expected to not only extend existing functionality across all of those environments, they must elevate the capabilities of the network to enable digital transformation. That means building a network that’s more agile, resilient, secure, scalable, observable and intelligent. For network managers, engineers and architects looking…

This blog is part of our series that focuses on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Each blog highlights a different Cisco employee whose work makes a positive impact on people, communities, or the planet. As a large, global company, we have a responsibility to decrease the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from our operations and products. This starts with understanding the contributors to our emissions footprint. Customers’ use of Cisco products accounts for…

We’re excited and honored that Cisco DNA Spaces, a cloud-based platform for indoor location and IoT services, has once again achieved the Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice distinction for Indoor Location Services.  This distinction highlights Cisco’s commitment to delivering the right solutions, with the right features, at the right time. Gartner defines this market as vendors that supply hardware and software components to provide indoor location to a breadth of organizations that include enterprises as…

Enterprise software developers are increasingly using a variety of APIs in their day-to-day work. With this increase in use, however, it is becoming more difficult for organizations to have a full understanding of those APIs. Are the APIs secure? Do they adhere to the organization’s policies and standards?  It would be incredibly helpful to have a suite of solutions that provides insights to these questions and more. Fortunately, Cisco has introduced our An-API-For-An-API project to…

The cd command makes it easy to switch to another directory on Liniux, but only if you know where you’re heading. In this post, I discuss a couple of tricks for moving between known locations and provide a script for finding and “remembering” files or locations that you might want to reuse. One of the easiest things to do with the cd command is return to your home directory regardless of where you are sitting…

Few security career paths are linear. For Stephanie Frankel the journey to Cisco Secure was circuitous. The Ann Arbor, Michigan native studied journalism at the University of Michigan before managing communications for the Washington Capitals and NBC Sports. But after several stints at communications agencies, she charted a new path for herself in cybersecurity. Not only has her diverse background served as a strength in her current role as senior manager for strategy and operations,…

It is impossible to read the news these days and not be struck by the record-breaking heatwaves, intense wildfires, prolonged droughts, severe storms, and widespread flooding. The effects of climate change are all around us. Yet those most affected by climate change are already vulnerable populations, many of whom are living in some of the poorest countries in the world. These communities are at the forefront of the climate crisis and lack the resources to…