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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…

It is indeed critical to make the right infrastructure investments to support hybrid employees, and Cisco can help. A Quick Look Back Virtual workspaces for hybrid workers were thought of as mostly unnecessary when corporate workforces went to the office on a regular basis before March 2020. Only a minority of workers for most companies were remote on a full-time or most-of-the-time basis until then. But within a few weeks, remote workers became the majority…

Call it entrepreneurial agility or being nimble. From the 600 small businesses we questioned for the Global Workforce Survey, almost 85 percent of respondents reported plans to adopt a “Work from Anywhere” policy. Not only have small businesses embraced the new market for cloud services and solutions, they are also leveraging the opportunity of Hybrid Work to complete their digital transformation. So, turn on the VPN, log in to your collaboration platform and make it…

In just a decade, the IT landscape has changed dramatically. Ten years ago, most business applications were hosted in corporate data centers, accessed by employees from the corporate network. Applications, data, and users were secured within a defined perimeter. Today, with the cloud, the rise of IOT, mobility, and remote working, the traditional security perimeter is dissolving, and the security architecture must now be tightly integrated with the network. SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), as…

Here at Cisco we strive to align our strategy, content, and offerings to the top trends happening in the industry. To help us do this effectively, we designed something called the Portfolio Explorer.     The Portfolio Explorer divides each industry into various themes and use cases that are revisited and updated each year by our industry experts. We just finished our updates for this fiscal year, and financial services saw a substantial overhaul. We…

How do we identify the devices on our network? How do we know whether an endpoint is a PC, an IP Camera, or an MRI machine? And how do we know if that device is authorized to access the network, and what it can access? I recently sat down with senior technical marketing engineer Krishnan Thiruvengadam to discuss how Cisco’s AI Endpoint Analytics (EA) can help. For many years now, we’ve been using protocols like…

Now that the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021 winners have been officially announced, we are excited for you to learn more about each winning team and the story behind each innovation. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is an annual competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage tech entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems. Now in its fifth year, the competition awarded its largest prize pool ever, $1 million USD, to 20 winning teams from around the world. Nunam…

In April 2022, I’m going to be in the Sahara Desert, in 50°C (122°F) heat, about to start the challenge of a lifetime – while celebrating my 50th year. Not only am I able to achieve this goal thanks to Cisco, but they are helping me to give back at the same time! At 17 years old, I joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) where I spent a majority of the next 10 years in…

The job growth in the US IT industry accelerated in August, adding 25,400 positions, according to figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported in the latest figures from IT employment consultancy Janco Associates. That growth in IT positions comes when the highly infectious delta variant of the novel coronavirus slowed overall job growth, largely due to slowdowns in the restaurant and entertainment sectors. The August surge in US IT jobs follows job growth…