NETWORKING

As large enterprises spread by deploying distributed data centers and on-prem or public-cloud services, their ability to control and manage applications and workloads utilizing that infrastructure is becoming more difficult. An emerging technology called multi-cloud networking software (MCNS) is coming together from a variety of vendors—Cisco, Arista, VMware, and F5 among them—to address many of these challenges. In a recent report Gartner said MCNS technology enables consistent networking policy, network security, governance, and network visibility…

Wi-Fi 6E is here and the worldwide Wi-Fi community is buzzing about it. But why is it a major change? What does it mean for people’s Wi-Fi experience and infrastructure vendors like Cisco? And why are Cisco engineers excited about the opportunities for innovation? Read on to learn about the details of 6E and how this technology transition can enhance your career too. Wi-Fi 6E is More Than Just “A Bit More Spectrum” At its…

No Enablement can be successful without a focused training building the foundational understanding of the subject, while Enablement on that topic helps you understand how to use the training to make you successful at work. But first, let me pin down the difference between training and enablement. Training would be something like, “Introduction to the TCP/IP stack.” This would be a formal training or workshop that gives you a deep dive into the TCP/IP stack,…

According to a recent Bloomberg report, the “US is the latest country to pass what’s become a critical EV tipping point: 5% of new car sales powered only by electricity.” That 5% threshold is significant because it seems to be the point at which early adopters are overtaken by majority and rapid acceleration in demand occurs. The US joins a list of 19 other countries that have reached this 5% threshold and, if following similar…

IT, networking, and cybersecurity solutions giant Cisco has admitted suffering a security incident targeting its corporate IT infrastructure in late May 2022. On August 10, the firm stated that an employee’s credentials were compromised after an attacker gained control of a personal Google account where credentials saved in the victim’s browser were being synchronized. Bad actors published a list of files from this security incident to the dark web, Cisco added. “The incident was contained…

Getting started with network automation can be tough. It is worth the effort though, when a product like Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) can to turn your network services into a powerful orchestration engine. Over the past year, we have released a series of learning labs that cover the foundational skills needed to develop with NSO: Now we are proud to announce the final piece of the puzzle. We’re bringing it all together with the…

Today’s hybrid work environments make it increasingly difficult to monitor, secure and optimize network connectivity and application performance. 40% of enterprises stated that accommodating new applications was the biggest business challenge their IT team must face (1) and 70% of enterprises increased their use of cloud services during the pandemic (2). As the use of cloud applications and distributed workforces continue to rise, new challenges are introduced such as lack of visibility, difficulty pinpointing and…

Learn more about Cisco Intersight – Blog 1 of 3 in a weekly series where we explore how to get the most from your vacation and hybrid cloud management   As I prepare to head out on summer vacation, I can’t help but realize that planning a vacation is a lot like managing IT operations. Both require coordinating a handful of individual tasks (from booking flights and reserving a hotel to deploying servers and resolving…

Cisco recently expanded its Cisco SD-WAN training portfolio with the Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Security and Cloud Solutions (SDWSCS) course. This new SDWSCS course covers critical Cisco SD-WAN solutions and the foundational knowledge necessary to implement those solutions in the real world. Before we dive into the highlights of the new SDWSCS course, it’s important to note that SDWSCS is an advanced Cisco SD-WAN course. That being said, the purpose of this blog is to help…

A big lesson brought home early in the COVID-19 pandemic is that IT requirements can suddenly change at an explosive rate, and the only way to prepare for such events is to build as much flexibility as possible into corporate networks. Many large enterprises had already embraced this concept, but smaller ones with fewer financial resources had not. The pandemic moved the needle for many of them from viewing flexibility as a luxury to seeing…