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The Past It was March of 2020, and I was driving around downtown Campbell, CA, while chatting with my colleagues, speculating about the cancelation of Cisco Live Melbourne due to this “COVID thing.” I thought it was just a rumor and that nothing would happen. Then, 24 hours later, the event gets canceled. Little did I know the entire year was pretty much canceled. I was disappointed and super sad to have missed connecting with…

Security that is hard to deploy and complex to manage needs to become a distant memory if businesses are to be resilient through times of uncertainty. Even something as critical as a firewall, the sentinel in the security stack, can often require a lengthy setup, ongoing maintenance, and disjointed management. Over the long run, these additional costs accrue and can have a negative impact on security programs. When budgets are constrained, these effects can be…

While it’s one of the best tools for examining performance on Linux, htop still requires some explanation before you’ll be ready to take advantage of all the data it displays. It’s an excellent tool, but you need to understand the coloring scheme, how to scroll up and down through the processes displayed, and how to change your view of what’s happening on the system. It may take some time to get used to the type of…

As the Vice President of the Learning and Certifications organization at Cisco, I have the privilege of hearing amazing success stories and stories of people changing their lives and careers via Cisco training and exams. I am able to see, firsthand, how learning, certifications, and being Cisco certified have helped thousands of people in the tech industry transform their careers. At the highest level, Cisco training and certification programs offer a path to the technology…

Note to reader: Time stamps embedded in the text below in [  ] are there to help you navigate to the related section of the full interview video included in this blog.   Some technologists geek out on tools but don’t translate the benefits into real-world applications. Not Alex Ellis. Alex takes a unique approach in his work and in his writing, helping explain tech in context so that the benefits of technical tools make sense.  As…

Note to reader: Time stamps embedded in the text below in [  ] are there to help you navigate to the related section of the full interview video included in this blog.   APIs are a big subject area for the Cloud Native developer community. One aspect in particular, quality of APIs is coming more into focus. In this episode of my Cloud Unfiltered podcast I talk to Matt LeRay, co-founder and CTO of Speedscale about…

Note to reader: Time stamps embedded in the text below in [  ] are there to help you navigate to the related section of the full interview video included in this blog.  There’s still a great deal of confusion around API gateways – how and when to use them and what benefit they bring. In the world where microservices rule application flexibility, they are a fundamental aspect of driving the services, products, and operational flexibility…

Note to reader: Time stamps embedded in [  ] below are there to help you navigate to the  related section of the full interview video included in this blog.  If applications are the vehicle for modern enterprise operations and services driving growth and competitiveness, containers, microservices, and the cloud are the engine propelling it. In a modern multi-cloud world with endless containers, microservices, and API connections, solutions like Kubernetes are great, but only take us…

This article was co-written with Michael Maurer, Cisco Intersight’s Technical Marketing Engineer. See the previous article in this series: Get Ready for Machine Learning Ops. If you upload your photos taken from your smartphone camera to your Google account (like I do), you can search your photos by keyword. See the screenshot below from my Google account, of all the hamburgers I have eaten: Google’s machine learning image classification and object detection algorithm saves its…

Intel has introduced a reference design it says can enable accelerator cards for security workloads including secure access service edge (SASE), IPsec, and SSL/TLS. The upside of the server cards would be offloading some application processing from CPUs, effectively increasing server performance without requiring additional server rack space, according to Intel. The announcement was made at RSA Conference 2022, and details were published in a blog post by Bob Ghaffardi, Intel vice president and general…