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Facebook says the root cause of its outage Monday involved a routine maintenance job gone awry that resulted in rendering its DNS servers unavailable, but first the entire Facebook backbone network had crashed. To make matters worse, the loss of DNS made it impossible for Facebook engineers to remotely access the devices they needed to in order to bring the network back up, so they had to go into the data centers to manually restart…

Rain or shine?… Doesn’t matter. Global pandemic?… OK, we’ll be virtual. Whatever the challenge, developers are always up for solving problems. That’s why we are super excited to bring you, our DevNet community, together at DevNet Create 2021 to demonstrate use cases and their solutions to real-life problems. This is DevNet Creates 5th year and it keeps on getting better. This year, my DevNet colleague Denise Kwan and I are both extremely excited to co-host…

VMware is heavily targeting the challenging multicloud universe with a raft of VMworld announcements. With its latest offerings – which include a new cross-cloud service, cloud management and bolstered security wares – VMware is positioning itself to manage the growing multicloud world and address the enterprise ecosphere of distributed applications and infrastructure. “The average enterprise has about 500 applications, and all of them are getting modernized. Some of them are going to continue to live in the…

Microsoft on Monday began releasing Windows 11 as one market after another rolled into Oct. 5, the day it had set as the launch date for the operating system upgrade. Personal computers running Windows 10 that meet Microsoft’s stricter-than-usual hardware requirements were immediately eligible for the free Windows 11 download. New devices with Windows 11 factory installed also went on sale. “We’re pumped to be launching Windows 11,” Panos Panay, chief product officer of the…

Automating infrastructure configuration is a big deal and can save your company tons of time and money. Cisco’s Network Service Orchestrator (NSO) automation platform solves configuration management problems, but often requires some learning investment to unlock its full potential. I am thrilled to announce some recently added resources to help you get ramped up in your automation journey with NSO. New Yang for NSO Learning Labs The designers of the Yang data modeling language created…

Episode 14 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 14 Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 14. Demystifying fiber cable infrastructure, with Brian Kelly. Part 6 of 6. If you search on “data center” you’ll find many images that show rows and rows of equipment racks. The network gear in these racks need to be physically connected to each other, and that’s where pluggable optic transceivers come…

VMware is all in at the edge as the company has rolled out new software to help enterprises support and manage ever-more distributed applications and data. At its virtual VMworld conference this week the company took the wraps off VMware Edge, an amalgamation of new and existing software packages that together let enterprises run, manage, and secure what VMware calls “edge-native” apps across multiple clouds at local and far-flung edge locations. The edge that VMware…

Let’s talk fitness. Physical fitness builds a strong body, endurance, and stamina. Commitment to training goals ensures athletes will push through training challenges – each achievement creating more energy, focus, and confidence. In my work leading agile transformation for Cisco’s Customer & Partner Experience Engineering (CPXE) organization, I have seen firsthand how the concept of fitness translates to organizational health, too – I call it transformational fitness. Transformational fitness is the ability to sustain energy…

15 years at Cisco and I really do still love my job! Every time I think about my role as an IT Manager, and these words, I think about that scene in Miss Congeniality where Sandra Bullock’s character becomes overwhelmed with emotion and let’s everyone know, “I really do want world peace!” When I say, “I love Cisco” – I really, really love Cisco! Not only can I bring my true self to work every…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Oct. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — VMworld —   News summary Dell Technologies APEX Cloud Services with VMware Cloud offers powerful, simplified multi-cloud experience Dell EMC ObjectScale software uses Kubernetes to reduce object storage costs and speeds application innovation Dell Technologies Validated Design for AI, jointly engineered with VMware and NVIDIA, helps enterprises get the most from data insights Full story Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces new cloud and IT offerings, co-engineered with VMware,…