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Well, it’s been a while since we’ve been able to come together in person. It’s hard to believe Cisco Live in the U.S. was nearly three years ago. Now, just hours ahead of seeing those doors open at Mandalay Bay, I want to share with you what the Learning & Certifications team has planned for the week ahead. From learning and certifying tips to walk-in labs, special breakout sessions, and technical workshops, you’re in for…

Cisco Live 2022 is fast approaching and that means it’s time to prep! Whether you’re a Cisco Live veteran or a conference newbie, attending an event of this size can be hectic if you don’t have a plan. If you don’t have a plan, you end up with something like this: Please Let me Attend N…everything Not great. But FOMO isn’t the only enemy, burnout and exhaustion can get you too! Any conference can feel…

Cisco IOx provides you with a platform to host your microservices at the networks edge, close to your data originator. Microservices allow you to process your data, apply filtering, aggregation, densification, quality checks and much more! What to keep in mind? Are Linux based systems and Docker applications old friends of yours?  If so, you probably already know about some challenges of creating Docker images. With IOx, creating your own custom application is a well-defined…

In large, complex organizations, sometimes the only metric that seems to matter is mean time to innocence (MTTI). When a system breaks down, MTTI is the tongue-in-cheek measure of how long it takes to prove that the breakdown was not your fault. Somehow, MTTI never makes it into the slide deck for the quarterly board meeting. With the explosion of tools available today—observability platforms for gathering system telemetry, CI/CD pipelines with test suite timings and…

Every day seems to bring news of yet another high-profile security incident at yet another well-known company, and we know that many more such incidents go unreported. As bad actors grow ever more sophisticated, responsible IT organizations also need to become more sophisticated in how they protect themselves. Moving your security work earlier in the development process, for both code and infrastructure, is a vital part of mitigating financial, legal, and reputational risk. This strategy…

Technology is everywhere The advance and pervasiveness of technology today is unprecedented. Think about it: technology now touches just about everyone, in every situation. Thanks to the cloud, everything from your groceries to your doctor is available in three clicks or less. Application centricity and the explosion of data have propelled innovation to a new level. And these days consumption is king: users only want to pay for IT when and where they use it….

Is your IT team considering SASE? Our new hybrid world and the accelerated transition to a multi-cloud environment have caused unprecedented secure connectivity challenges for organizations. Organizations are looking to leverage their SD-WAN architecture to provide a seamless user experience while connecting to multi-cloud secure connectivity solution to keep users and devices safe. To ease these challenges, many are now looking to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions to converge networking and cloud security to…

Traditional service provider networks have become very complex, creating significant overhead across engineering and operations teams tasked with building, expanding, and maintaining them. This results in higher costs, reduced agility, and increased environmental impact. Built on multiple technology layers, domains, protocols, operational silos, and proprietary components that have been stacked over years or decades, service provider networks must go through mass simplification to couple with our society’s increasing business and sustainability demands. Simplification is key…

Sometimes having a lot of choices is a good thing. For example, attendees at next week’s Cisco Live! US in Las Vegas might treat themselves to a feast of many wondrous and sumptuous delights offered at a premium buffet. But having a lot of choices when it comes to determining the best technology strategy for your company’s IT for the next decade might be a daunting task indeed. I can relate. Today, our customers are…

The partner ecosystem that Cisco HyperFlex is built upon is always evolving and adapting to bring value to our mutual customers.  When partners and Cisco work together, great things happen.  In this episode of our blog series, we are excited to talk about three powerful recent additions to our suite of capabilities that are delivered in partnership with AMD, Cohesity and Red Hat. AMD EPYC processor based HyperFlex node options are now orderable Back in…