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Lenovo is expanding its TruScale pay-per-use model to cover its all data-center products—servers, storage—and client-side devices—laptops, tablets. This transition to a fully integrated, end-to-end, as-a-service model is part of the company’s “One Lenovo” strategy of providing its entire portfolio of clients and servers as a fully managed, on-premises cloud environment through TruScale leasing. One Lenovo simply means laptops and desktops will be sold along with data-center products together all under one sales program. Lenovo will…

Virtualization is an essential part of modern IT infrastructure that presents many routine management tasks to sysadmins, among them increasing virtual hard-drive space when necessary. In my line of work, because of expanding log files, scaling for growing processes, and new tasks for existing servers, this is something I do at least once a month. Here’s how to do itn a Microsoft Server Hyper-V hypervisor running Windows Server 2016 using either Hyper-V Manager or Failover…

IT Professionals Day is a day to celebrate us ─ the fixers, the doers, the behind-the-scenes operators who ensure all networks and systems operate flawlessly! Each year on the third Tuesday of September, IT professionals around the globe should take time to pat ourselves on the back and recognize the hard (and often thankless) work we do each day to connect, secure, and automate the world around us! It’s only fitting that today is the…

Episode 13 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 13 Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 13. Demystifying fiber cable infrastructure, with Brian Kelly. Part 5 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…

Leaving the Known for the Unknown This is a tale of three journeys. Like all journeys, you begin with an idea and a vision; then there is a voyage across a vast ocean; and, at last, you see terra firma! You set up shop and go about the business of building a new life, hopefully, better than the one you left behind. In three parts, I will tell you about the parallel journeys of a…

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America and a self-taught lawyer, taught the American people a lesson about patience, endurance, and the benefit of a good plan. He said, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Putting in the effort to do the due diligence of planning and strategizing helps empower a greater outcome. To empower a greater outcome,…

More Cloud Deployment Options for Secure Firewall Customers Cisco Secure is a Nutanix Elevate Technical Alliances partner and is excited to have earned the 2021 Nutanix Technology Alliances New Partner of the Year award. This award recognizes the commitment of Cisco Secure and Nutanix to support the growing number of joint customers protecting Nutanix’s Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) with Cisco Secure Firewall. 2021 Nutanix Technology Alliances New Partner of the Year, awarded to Cisco Secure…

Some days I really get excited about my job. A self-driving race car challenge? That’s just cool any way you look at it. For entertainment, for innovation, and for demonstrating the move to automation that’s already underway across industries. But before we get to that, let me give you a peek inside the first autonomous car race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Discover the Indy Autonomous Challenge Imagine if you were a college student and…

This blog was written by Malcolm Smith. Malcolm is a Network Engineer at Presidio, but the journey to his dream job was a challenging one that threw many obstacles in his way. I am proud that the Cisco Networking Academy played a role in helping him get where he is today. I hope you are as inspired by his story as I am. When I was child, I was obsessed with disassembling and reassembling all…

Thank You. Two little words. Two very powerful words. We use them a lot in conversation. However, this seems to be something that has dropped off in certain areas of out lives, especially the thank you note – or thank you email. I remember back in the “olden days” – before the Internet – when you interviewed for a job, you followed through with a thank you letter. The idea was to show the people…