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According to Gartner, enhancements in digital workplace infrastructure processes will refocus 30 percent of IT operations efforts through 2024, which will benefit both support and continuous engineering. This is a compelling reason to make sure your team is aligned with innovations from Cisco.[1] Reimagining the TAC experience The efficiencies cited by Gartner are being driven by analytics and automatic remediation capabilities, areas that we know are key to our customers. That’s why Cisco is investing…

Researchers have discovered a new attack technique that exploits the speculative execution feature of modern CPUs to leak potentially sensitive information from the kernel’s memory. The attack circumvents some of the software defenses some operating systems put in place to prevent previous exploits of this nature. The attack, dubbed Retbleed by researchers from Swiss university ETH Zurich, works against both Intel and AMD CPUs. On Intel it’s tracked as CVE-2022-29901 and impacts CPU generations 6,…

The data storage industry is experiencing a major transformation driven by multiple factors, including the need for security, speed, efficiency, and lower costs. IT research firm Gartner recently predicted 23-times growth in shipped petabytes through 2030, a trajectory that promises to radically reshape and redefine current data center and IT operations. To stay on top of the storage game, keep a close eye on these eight trends. 1. DNA storage DNA, when used as a…

Cisco Crosswork Network Automation is a microservices platform that brings together streaming telemetry, big data, and model-driven application programming interfaces (APIs) to redefine how service providers conduct network operations. Cisco Crosswork Network Automation offers a platform to collaborate, and build an application ecosystem around on-box innovation. The Cisco Crosswork Network Automation product suite is a highly scalable and efficient operations automation framework. It enables service providers to quickly deploy intent-driven, closed-loop operations. You can plan,…

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the foundations of the internet, working in the background to match the names of web sites that people type into a search box with the corresponding IP address, a long string of numbers that no one could be expected to remember. It’s still possible for someone to type an IP address into a browser to reach a website, but most people want an internet address to consist…

The Making of PENN1 – an insider’s view I was fortunate enough to sit in on a recent conversation with a few of our partners that help bring the vision of our NYC PENN 1 hybrid workplace to life.  At PENN1 we challenged ourselves and our partners to take an integrated approach to simplifying building management, reducing operational costs, and enabling a flexible hybrid work environment. In listening to our partners, you quickly realize that…

Juniper Networks has upgraded its cloud-based management platform and introduced a new switch family for campus and branch networks. On the management side, Juniper says the goal is to simplify network operations for organizations with a mix of campus, branch, micro-site, and remote-worker settings, and it is doing that by adding features to its Mist AI/ML cloud-based management platform and its Marvis virtual network assistant. Mavis troubleshooting features, Windows client Juniper has added a Windows…

According to the UITP World Metro Figures 2021 report, approximately 3,300 km of new rail infrastructure was put in service between the start of 2018 and the end of 2020. This represents an infrastructure growth of 25% globally. During this timeframe, operational fleets worldwide increased by 28,000 vehicles to a total of 140,000 vehicles. In 2019, an average of 190 million passengers per day were taking the metro globally. This is an increase of 20%…

Modern businesses rely on network connectivity, including across the Internet and public cloud. The more secure, stable, and reliable these networks are, the better the user experience is likely to be. Understanding WAN performance, including Internet transit networking and how it affects application delivery, is key to optimizing your network architecture and solving business-impacting issues. Troubleshooting any technical issue in environments so distributed and fast-changing can be a difficult and tedious process. First, there is…

By: Tom Hollingsworth, Networking Expert. Crucial to any user experience is consistency. After all, users can be fickle. They want things now. They might even want it to be fun, but more importantly, they require a consistent experience. Between increased speed or consistency, users most always pick consistency. No matter where they log in or on what device they happen to be using, especially when it comes to real-time communications experiences on an app, they…