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IBM is keeping the faith for Unix just like it is for mainframes. It has announced a new Unix-based server, the IBM Power E1080, the first in a family that is based on the POWER10 processor. IBM announced the POWER10 processor last year. Designed on a 7nm process, it is expected to deliver up to a three-fold improvement in capacity and processor energy efficiency within the same power envelope as IBM POWER9. It features a…

Cisco Secure Firewall provides industry-leading firewall capabilities for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)and resources deployed inside. Customers use these firewalls to protect north-south and east-west traffic. Typically, we provide north-south traffic inspection in AWS infrastructure by deploying a load balancer and adding firewalls behind it. Another approach uses Amazon VPC Ingress Routing to steer traffic to Cisco Secure Firewalls. Since the AWS VPC Ingress Routing feature launched, we’ve waited for a similar feature for east-west…

The Linux sleep and wait commands allow you to run commands at a chosen pace or capture and display the exit status of a task after waiting for it to finish. Sleep simply inserts a timed pause between commands. Wait, on the other hand, waits until a process completes before notifying you that it has finished. Sleep The sleep command pauses for a specified time. It’s generally used in a script, but works on the…

Amazon Web Services and NetApp have teamed up to tie NetApp’s on-prem storage and its proprietary OS for storage-disk arrays to AWS’s managed file-storage service, FSx. Called Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, the service provides things like capacity scaling, maintenance, and updates so on-prem staff doesn’t have to. Performance management with automatic tiering between local storage and fully elastic AWS storage is provided by AWS as well. This is not a new area for AWS,…

Cisco announced the UCS X-Series back in June which garnered a lot of press. But I know how hard it is to keep up with industry news, so I thought a blog series was a good way to familiarize / refamiliarize you with our next gen modular system. Why UCS X-Series? Our strategy has always been to focus on inflection points in the industry and to understand what is coming next. To remove complexity, making…

Episode 12 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 12 Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 12. Demystifying fiber cable infrastructure, with Brian Kelly. Part 4 of 6. If you search on “data center” you’ll find many images that show rows and rows of equipment racks. The network gear in these racks need to be physically connected to each other, and that’s where pluggable optic transceivers come…

The Cisco Enterprise Agreement (EA) is a cross-portfolio buying program that offers a three- or five-year agreement that gives customers a simple way to procure software, services, and support across Cisco’s software portfolio. Customers can choose from either a single architecture enrollment or construct a cross-architecture agreement with multiple enrollments. Enterprise Agreements represent significant value exchange between Cisco, the partner seller, and the customer. The customer is making an enterprise-wide commitment to at least one…

NTT’s Darling Park is enabling a safe, healthy and smart workplace. When ASHRAE came to NTT and Cisco to help them convert a 43-year-old building in Atlanta, Georgia into their new headquarters they had lofty goals. As a leader in building standards, ASHRAE wanted to create a workspace that reflected their organization’s vision of advancing human well-being through sustainable technology. They also wanted a design that could serve as a guide to its more than…

This blog is a joint collaboration between Cisco (Ravi Balakrishnan) and F5 (Patrick Campbell) It was 2015 when F5 released its first modules to automate tasks related to their BIG-IP Platform.  F5 supported Ansible collections, leveraging their IMPERATIVE REST API, consisting of more than 170 modules today.  As with almost every major IT initiative today, the Data Center infrastructure automation landscape has changed where alignment between IT and business needs is required faster than ever…

Arista to build next generation national campus network for Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), providing ultra high-performance networking for corporate sites in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth SYDNEY–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) has been selected to build a new cognitive campus networking environment for the ASX. The new network will be built utilising the Arista 720XP series switching platform and provide networking connectivity for the ASX’s staff at two major facilities in Sydney, and corporate sites…