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The tech industry contributes to global warming. But it offers solutions, too. In the past 18 months, many of us have experimented with digital technologies. We’ve led teams and entire companies from the home office, attended weddings, experienced live music and theatre performances virtually. But the promise of digitisation is far greater. It’s a way for society to become more efficient, more inclusive, and more sustainable. That’s why we believe that moving forward, what can…

Innovating faster and becoming more flexible are key concerns of top executives across the globe. These concerns are even more prominent for broadband operators who need to deploy and simplify their infrastructure faster while preparing the way to develop and deliver new residential and commercial services. In a world that has accelerated its march to digital societies thanks to the ongoing pandemic speeding up innovation cycles throughout all areas of the network has become even…

Announces participation in upcoming analyst day and investor events SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks, Inc. (NYSE:ANET) will release its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2021 after U.S. markets close on Monday, November 1st, 2021. The results will be included in a press release with accompanying financial information that will be posted on the Investor Relations section of the Arista website at https://investors.arista.com. Arista’s executive management team will host a conference call…

The old network troubleshooting saying is, when anything goes wrong, “It’s DNS.” This time Domain Name Server (DNS) appears to be the symptom of the root cause of the Facebook global failure. The true cause is that there are no working Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes into Facebook’s sites. BGP is the standardized exterior gateway protocol used to exchange routing and reachability information between the internet top-level autonomous systems (AS). Most people, indeed most network administrators, never need…

The old network troubleshooting saying is, when anything goes wrong, “It’s DNS.” This time Domain Name Server (DNS) appears to be the symptom of the root cause of the Facebook global failure. The true cause is that there are no working Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes into Facebook’s sites. BGP is the standardized exterior gateway protocol used to exchange routing and reachability information between the internet top-level autonomous systems (AS). Most people, indeed most network administrators, never need…

As businesses begin to recover from the global pandemic, very few are returning to the traditional model of having everyone working from the office five days a week. Instead, work-from-home (WFH) employees are transitioning to a hybrid model, known as work-from-anywhere (WFA.) A WFA model allows users to work at home, on campus, at a branch, or anyplace with an internet connection. Most organizations enable employees to work part of the week in a traditional…

Over 45,000 organizations depend on Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) to manage access policies as a core requirement to zero trust networking. ISE provides enterprise IT teams with granular control over which endpoints and people can access resources based on centrally managed policies. These policies can be enforced ubiquitously across an organization through a distributed architecture spanning multiple ISE nodes. This configuration is working incredibly well for enterprises of all sizes and business functions. To…

In May 2021, an Executive Order was issued on Improving the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure (EO 14028). The U.S. government’s current directives are necessary to improve critical infrastructure cybersecurity and to address complex multidimensional cybersecurity challenges affecting the world. Two common themes emerge across these initiatives—the need to expand public/private partnerships and the need to improve transparency and information sharing. At Cisco, we’re ready for the challenge.   Transparency and Executive Order 14028 Trust in technology…

Modernizing a data-center network is no easy task under any conditions, but when a healthcare system that includes hospitals and emergency care depends on that network, the pressure is only more intense. But that’s the challenge Tom Hull, CIO of Kaleida Health, the largest healthcare system in western New York, has undertaken in the past year-and-a-half with the goal of building a secure, software-defined data-center environment capable of moving the provider into the future. The…

Data-center owners and operators face increasing complexity and operational challenges as they look to improve IT resiliency, build out capacity at the edge, and retain skilled staff in a tight labor market. Meanwhile, use of the public cloud for mission-critical workloads is up, according to Uptime Institute, even as many enterprises seek greater transparency into cloud providers’ operations. These are some of the highlights of this year’s Global Data Center Survey, which tracks trends in capacity…