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Free-Tier Developer Solutions Panoptica and Calisti Continue Cisco’s Strategy to Connect, Secure, and Observe Modern Applications Technologists have predicted for years that digital experiences are the way of the future. But no one could have predicted quite how the pandemic would drive accelerated adoption. All kinds of consumer and business experiences, and related transactions, will one day soon take place in an immersive world. We’re not far off from new, immersive social and entertainment experiences….

The advent of Wi-Fi has been a global success story. Today it is the world’s most used wireless communications technology, thanks to its many features, high performance, ease of use, and cost-efficiency. It complements private 5G wireless networks, enabling an array of high throughput, low latency applications—from virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) to 4k video. Cisco has championed Wi-Fi since its early development more than two decades ago. Now we’re introducing important enterprise Wi-Fi 6…

Ransomware has become a pervasive and lucrative business for bad actors, as they become increasingly more sophisticated in their attacks. Industry trends like digital transformation and remote workforces, combined with the problem of mass data fragmentation, expand the possible entry points for attackers. Connected critical systems make it easier for infections to spread once a business has been breached. Ransomware as a service offers pay-for-use malware software, making it possible for anyone to launch cyber…

Cisco is prepping its high-end data-center Nexus switch family for high-speed Ethernet  that will better support high-bandwidth applications such as AI and cloud-native.   The vendor rolled out five new Nexus data-center switches that include improved support for 100/400Gb Ethernet networks, but its flagship box—the 9800—now includes a migration path to support 800GbE requirements. The new modular data-center switch product family with 14.4Tb/s fully encrypted bandwidth per slot. The Cisco Nexus 9800 Series features eight-slot…

There are some very tough questions I’ve come across in my time. How does one walk into Mordor, if not simply? Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet? (Credit to Lily Tomlin for that one.) For a security leader, the toughest questions are often around security buy-in: How do you achieve active support across the organization for building resilience? Is there a way to overcome legacy systems, and perhaps even…

IT process automation sells itself: automating tasks is not only cheaper than paying a human to perform repetitive activities, but it’s also more efficient and predictable. While it’s possible to develop automation tools in-house with enterprise staff, that can be challenging, so ultimately, to embrace automation in a big way, it may be necessary to enlist commercial software tools. Some tasks are simpler to automate than others—managing IT systems, provisioning physical and virtual machines, managing…

Grace Francisco and Tony Colon Day 2 of Cisco Live has wrapped and “wowza” is there a ton to share with everyone. We know there was definitely not enough time in your day to absorb everything we released, but I will do my best to wrap up the day’s most important announcements for you and help you make the most out of tomorrow. 😉 You can always count on Kanwal Komail, Cisco DevNet Marketing Manager…

One of the enduring traditions of Cisco Live is our Cisco Designated VIP Dinner, an opportunity to bring together some of the pillars of our community to eat, mingle, and enjoy each other’s company. After such a long time apart, this dinner also serves an important role in recognizing the resilience of the communities we’ve supported together, the stewardship that continues to help us get through this moment, and the hard work that it takes to…

Digital infrastructure outages have gotten more and more expensive over the course of the past several years, according to a report from the Uptime Institute. Meanwhile, the total number of major outages has remained the same—meaning that, on average, an increasingly large amount of money is getting spent on recovering from each disruption. The proportion of individual outages resulting in losses of over $100,000 is increasing, according to the report, up to 47% of all…

Developing a team for everyone One of the things I’ve valued about being a member of our DevNet developer community is that it’s a group that is passionate about creation – building – thinking up new things and bringing ideas to life. Together, we’ve created new ways to automate networks, improve security, and connect the unconnected. We are a collection of explorers, innovators, and makers – and many of solutions crafted by this community (us)…