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Every day we help our partners provide exceptional customer experiences by simplifying IT and delivering a faster path to value with outcome-driven solutions. This requires partner engineers to always be on point. Partner engineers and technologists have long been responsible for guiding customers through the purchase, deployment, and activation of Cisco technology. Ensuring they are knowledgeable, capable, and energetic about Cisco technology is crucial to sales success. That means listening to our partners and providing…

This year Cisco Live offers you the ability to attend in-person or join sessions virtually. I have attended many conferences and educational events, both live and online, and I can highlight a number of benefits to attending in-person:  Going to an event for an entire day (or days) allows you to focus. Attending sessions and participating in event activities is what you’re doing. You’re not distracted by other tasks and responsibilities.  Communicating directly with speakers…

From my early childhood spent in India, nature and wildlife have held a dear place in my heart. My father, who worked as a Professor in Zoology and holds a PhD in honeybee conservation, instilled these interests in me. When I was growing up, I had an opportunity to live on farmland with sugarcane and paddy fields. We had many pets, including dogs, fishes, birds, squirrels, mongooses, rabbits, and cats, at different times. During the…

Automation has been the focus of interest in the industry for quite some time now. Out of the top tools available, Ansible and Terraform have been popularly used amongst automation enthusiasts like me. While Ansible and Terraform are different in their implementation, they are equally supported by products from the Cloud Networking Business Unit at Cisco (Cisco ACI, DCNM/NDFC, NDO, NXOS). Here, we will discuss how Terraform and Ansible work with Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller…

While using your cell phone to connect to your Linux system might not seem like much of a priority, it is possible and you might have a good reason to do this from time to time. If you have an Android cell phone, you can install a tool that will allow you to connect, open a terminal session on your Linux box and run commands just like you would if you were sitting in front…

Enterprise interest in Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) has soared over the past two years among organizations trying to enable secure anywhere, anytime, any device access to IT resources for employees, contractors and third parties. Much of this interest has stemmed from organizations looking to replace VPNs as the primary remote access mechanism to their networks and data. But it is also being driven by organizations seeking to bolster security in an environment where enterprise…

There are many different types of software developers in today’s industry. We are often segmented in what our tasks are. Mobile, web, front-end, back-end, are just a few examples. Another way to think of developers is the size, scale, and complexity of the applications we apply our craft to. Each day that passes, it seems as if more applications are being required to cover integrated tasks, from sales, to inventory, to accounting, to human resource…

This second blog in my financial services blog series is focused on the insurance industry, and how recent trends in predictive analytics, along with advanced storage capabilities, ensure that insurance companies have the data processing power and scalability they need to launch new offerings and keep happy and loyal subscribers. According to a PBS historical documentary, in 1751 Benjamin Franklin created the first organized insurance company called Philadelphia Contributor-ship to offer fire insurance. Today, insurance companies…

Networking multicloud-based enterprise workloads can be complicated and tedious, but there is an open-source software project underway that may change that. Called Network Service Mesh, the project would enable cloud-based Kubernetes workloads to communicate securely regardless of where they are located in disparate clouds and is under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which is part of the Linux Foundation. And the need for such technology is growing.  Cisco recently issued a study…

June 13, 2019 … the last time I was at Cisco Live.June 13, 2022 … the next time I set foot at Cisco Live! It is crazy that it is going to be exactly two years between the time I last attended Cisco Live in person, but it has felt like forever. I had been attending both Cisco Live Americas and Cisco Live EMEAR for past four consecutive years, and then all of a sudden,…