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While the pandemic continues to challenge us personally and professionally, it has created an opportunity for innovative solutions and creative connection. Through it all, our customers led the way in pivoting and transforming their businesses to meet the changing times. Today we celebrate those accomplishments by highlighting three customers who have risen above to receive the 2021 Cisco CX Customer Hero Award. The Award celebrates our CX customers –the changemakers, innovators, and discoverers—who have achieved…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Sept. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces that Dell Technologies’ chief financial officer, Tom Sweet, will present at Citi’s 2021 Global Technology Conference in a virtual fireside chat on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 11:10 a.m. CT / 12:10 p.m. ET. A live webcast and a replay of the webcast will be available on Dell Technologies’ Investor Relations page at investors.delltechnologies.com. About Dell Technologies Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) helps organizations and…

With some research forecasting that more than 75 million IoT devices will be deployed globally by 2025, enterprise IT administrators have a huge challenge on their hands: How to manage network access policies between so many users, devices, and networks with diverse access privileges. To date, mostly manual point solutions have been used to broadly enforce network access policies. They’re expensive, time-consuming, and inefficient. The clock is ticking. Devices are proliferating. Cybercrime cost the world…

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…