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The latest Marvel movie, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”, was released a couple of weeks ago and it was awesome, but all everyone wants to talk about is the next movie. What’s the Eternals going to be like? Who’s this other Hawkeye? How many Spider-mans (Spider-men?) are going to show up in December’s newest wall-crawler flick? It’s the same in the tech world too. There is still a lot of buzz in…

The Cisco UCS X-Series begins with the Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis. Our engineering teams rethought everything: modularity, size, power, cooling, and fabrics. The result is a great infrastructure choice to base your hybrid cloud computing platform for the next decade.   Modularity Modularity is key to flexibility and future proofing. Since the chassis has no midplane or fixed connections, every component can be replaced without requiring a forklift upgrade. The chassis can be upgraded by…

The adoption of new Catalyst 9800 not only brought new ways to configure Wireless Controllers, but also several new mechanisms to troubleshoot them. It has some awesome troubleshooting features that will help to identify root causes faster spending less time and effort. There are several new key troubleshooting differentiators compared to previous WLC models: Trace-on-failure: Summary of detected failures Always-on-tracing: Events continuously stored without having to enable debugging Radioactive-traces: More detailed debugging logs filtered per…

Juniper Networks is embracing an open campus-fabric management technology supported by other major networking vendors and at the same time making it simpler to use by removing much of the manual work it can require. The company is adding Ethernet VPN-Virtual Extensible XLAN (EVPN-VXLAN)  support to its Mist AI cloud-based management platform let customers streamline network operations. EVPN-VXLAN separates the underlying physical network from the virtual overlay network offering integrated Layer 2/Layer 3 connectivity as…

An astounding amount of information is becoming available now due to new monitoring methods that provide extraordinary visibility that will improve operations at no additional cost. Detection and forecasting the impact of undersea seismic events has been an area of research for many years. Early detection of such events has tremendous implications in minimizing loss of life and property. The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis1 (DART) system…

Did you know that walking 10,000 steps a day for better fitness and health is not a real thing? Yeah, I didn’t either, until now. It turns out that in the 1960s, a Japanese company thought it sounded good as an advertising campaign to sell their pedometer, which was the first commercial pedometer. The advertisement worked and they sold many pedometers while also kicking off a myth that persists to this day around the world….

Today’s customers don’t just want a great product, they demand an elevated experience. Customers want a clear path to installing, using, and optimizing their purchases so that they can accelerate their time to business value. Increasingly, customers want to control their experience – when they access information and from which sources. One of the most frequented places our customers turn for the information they need is the Cisco Community, where customers share best practices, find…

Cisco DCNM Evolves into a Fabric Controller The world of data centers is changing rapidly. Businesses are being faced with the ever-growing complexity of handling data in multiple locations and the increasing costs to maintain and manage changing data center environments. This growth is happening at an accelerating pace and pushing the scalability limits of data center environments. Spending on global data center infrastructure is projected to reach $200 billion in 2021, up 6 percent…

The New Zealand Police played a pivotal role in the country’s COVID-19 response. As the lead agency responsible on behalf of the government, they were the front lines of lockdown measure enforcement, which required close coordination with other agencies including the health, transport, education, and justice departments. By leveraging Webex by Cisco and its services platforms, the New Zealand Police were able to disseminate information and respond to incidents in real time, 24 hours a…

Like no other time in history, the education landscape is changing rapidly. What was once in-person is now online. While innovators are transforming education technology with solutions that remove language barriers, build literacy, improve teacher effectiveness, and more. For over 23 years Cisco Networking Academy has been ahead of the curve, leading the way in technology education. A global IT and cybersecurity education program powered by its mission to empower all people with career opportunities,…