NETWORKING

 In this blog I am going to ask you the reader two questions:   How important is digital-first engagement to your customers?  How many digital platform login or access failures will you accept prior to moving to a new institution?  How Important is digital-first engagement to your customers?  The ability for a customer of a financial institution to be able to engage digitally and simply has never been more important than it is today. The rapid expectation to manage your finances digitally…

While the unprecedented global pandemic has paused our lives for more than a year and a half now, it has not slowed the massive digitization of data, often referred to as digital transformation, that is now a primary challenge as businesses evolve their digital strategies. Digitization of the enterprise, and the resulting digital services, are rapidly increasing requirements for larger technology stacks to store, compute, analyze and connect the data. Supporting this is the Valuates…

Beep Beeeeep Beep…. Oh no! It’s 4:48 a.m. and I overslept; I needed to be up by 4:30 a.m. to catch my connecting flight to London Heathrow. This is going to be close. I check my phone and can see my Lyft is only five minutes away. Hopefully I get a fast driver.   During the frantic drive to the airport, I check in online but I still have to check a bag when I get…

In today’s cloud-first world, the WAN and network security are more intertwined than ever before. To realize the full promise of digital transformation, work from anywhere, and the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) model, enterprises must transform both their WAN and security architectures to support business applications hosted and accessed from anywhere, by anyone authorized to access them, and from any device. Zero Trust: Securing the Edge by Application, User/Device Identity, and Role-Based Context With…

Cisco is proud to be the only vendor recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the Best Practices Market Leadership Award for excellence in the network firewall market. This award recognizes that Cisco achieved the greatest market share in the global firewall market due to outstanding performance, products, and service. We’re honored to receive industry recognition for making security less complex, more agile, and better able to defend against today’s and tomorrow’s threats. In recent years,…

Mother Nature throws twists into food growing and production. Even slight changes in temperature, light, and humidity can affect taste or lead to spoilage. California’s grape growers, for instance, are having to adapt to a water shortage. Too much watering is not sustainable—and often not good for fruit quality. Too little, and vines don’t produce or wither away. Food distribution is also ultra-sensitive to environmental conditions. An unnoticed change in the temperature or humidity of…

For the average American, the term critical infrastructure probably conjures up images of hospitals, power plants, and highways. But how about critical software? The range of responses will be off the charts. We could probably say the same about the software that powers your agency too. What’s critical and what isn’t? Disruption would be debilitating Critical infrastructure sectors are so important that disruption would have a “debilitating effect” on our country, so national policy prioritizes…

Cisco is proud to be the only vendor recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the Best Practices Market Leadership Award for excellence in the network firewall market. This award recognizes that Cisco achieved the greatest market share in the global firewall market due to outstanding performance, products, and service. We’re honored to receive industry recognition for making security less complex, more agile, and better able to defend against today’s and tomorrow’s threats. In recent years,…

Athlete. Nerd. Queen. Brainy. We’ve all been labeled before. But what would it feel like to not have labels assigned to you? At Cisco, I never have to worry about stereotypes or judgement. In fact, I am embraced for my unique interests, and supported to pursue my passions. That’s why I love working at Cisco. I didn’t always know I loved engineering. In fact, I didn’t even decide on a technical career path until just…

Most of us don’t often think about swap space unless we run into a problem on our systems that suggests we don’t have enough. Even so, viewing and gauging the adequacy of swap space on a system is not overly complicated, and knowing what’s normal for your system can help you spot when something is wrong. So let’s check out some commands that can help you look into your swap space. But first, let’s review…