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There is no question that digital transformation is accelerating at a rapid pace, with so much of what each of us do every day reliant on connections. This is leading businesses and governments around the world to deepen their focus and remain clear-eyed about their goals, to stay ahead of the curve and plan for the future. This is certainly true for us at Cisco – and the groundwork we have laid for the past…

[By Shivu Vibhuti] NEEDS PROFILE Cisco Platform Abstraction (CPA) is a model-driven, administrative platform software development kit (SDK) created by Cisco developers that disaggregates software and hardware from a Network Operating System (NOS) like Cisco IOS XE. As a single source of truth and a standardized repository of hardware information, CPA simplifies development, debugging, and device validation, making it easier and faster for developers to provide code for data objects on new platforms.  Creating Order…

After over a year and a half of pivoting through the unprecedented, AppDynamics is ready to unleash the potential for channel partners to take hold of the market opportunity in 2021 and beyond. Unleash the Potential, our Partner Program Launch Event taking place on September 22nd, is designed to inform, inspire and ignite channel partners’ businesses as various AppDynamics leaders speak to the opportunities ahead to drive profitability and go-to-market strategies jointly to a capture…

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Every data center is built to host applications and provide the required infrastructure for the applications to run, communicate with each other, be accessed by their users from anywhere, and scale on demand. To achieve this, your data center network must be able to provide different types of connectivity to different applications. This includes east-west connectivity between application tiers, as well as north-south connectivity between users and applications. Both rely on additional application delivery Layer…

In 20+ years at Cisco I’ve seen the company evolve in various aspects of technology, but also with the different facets of diversity that exist within our employee base. To be the #1 IT company, we know we must have a diverse, and inclusive, global workforce committed to technology innovation that connects us all. In doing this, Cisco continues to change the way the world works, lives, plays, and learns. Besides guiding technical strategy for…

In a wide-ranging Investor Day conference Cisco executives outlined what they described as a $900 billion total market of high-level technology targets the networking giant expects to be a dominant force in developing toward in the next four years. Those targets include the six areas Cisco has been building toward for the past couple years, including agile networks, optimized applications, hybrid work, the Internet of the future, end-to-end security and edge networking capabilities but also…

Palo Alto Networks has bolted together its SD-WAN and security technologies to offer an integrated, cloud-based, secure-access service edge (SASE) offering aimed at simplifying distributed enterprises. Called Prisma SASE, the package brings together the company’s core Prisma Access package of cloud-based, next-generation security gateways with its Prisma SD-WAN technology it got when it bought CloudGenix for $420 million last year. Prisma SASE gives customers an integrated bundle that supports everything from secure access control, advanced…

Improving efficiency for the Cisco team in the Black Hat USA NOC As a proud partner of the Black Hat USA NOC, Cisco deployed multiple technologies along with the other Black Hat NOC partners to build a stable and secure network for the conference. We used Cisco Secure Malware Analytics to analyze files and monitor any potential PII leaks. We also used Meraki SM to manage over 300 iPads used around the venue for registration,…

Partners around the world need the resources and knowledge that allows them to rapidly respond to customers’ ever-changing business demands and technology requirements. The Cisco Black Belt Academy is a simplified enablement framework, consisting of carefully curated content, that allows Cisco Partners to enhance their competitive advantage, learn about the broad spectrum of Cisco ecosystem solutions, engage more confidently with customers and ultimately execute sales. In order to continuously provide partners with the most up-to-date…