NETWORKING

In life and business, there are times when it makes sense to invest, to experiment, to take risks. For most companies, a period of societal upheaval and economic uncertainty – with unknown ripple effects to follow – isn’t one of those times. Countless organizations are trying to find ways to tighten their proverbial belt and stay resilient in today’s challenging business climate. And many of them are reducing their IT budgets. IT spending will decline…

Every year, Veterans Day falls on November 11th – Armistice Day. Armistice Day marks the end of the first world war but now serves to honor all service men and women from many countries around the world. Cisco is proud to connect with, support and hire veterans. Our Veterans Program taps into our culture of service by providing training, mentoring and support to transitioning service members, veterans and military families. Cisco is proving amazing things…

IBM continued enhancing its core Cloud Pak hybrid cloud software offerings, this week bolstering automation and data features that will let customers simplify everything from software provisioning and patching, to data discovery and document processing. IBM Cloud Paks are bundles of Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform along with Red Hat Linux and a variety of connecting technologies to let enterprise customers deploy and manage containers on their choice of private or public infrastructure, including…

Nvidia’s plan to buy British chip powerhouse Arm Ltd. for a cool $40 billion is just the latest move in the company’s evolution from a gaming chip maker to a game changer in enterprise data centers. Nvidia’s goal is to take its high-powered processor technology and, through innovation, high-profile acquisitions (Mellanox, Cumulus and Arm) and strategic alliances (VMware, Check Point and Red Hat), provide a full-stack, hardware/software offering that brings the power of AI to…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Nov. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — News summary Dell Technologies expands its PowerProtect portfolio to deliver data protection solutions designed to fit any IT strategy New Dell EMC PowerProtect DP series appliances offer significant performance and efficiency improvements with up to 30% more logical capacity, 38% faster backups and 45% quicker restores PowerProtect Cyber Recovery is the first on-premises turnkey data vaulting solution endorsed by Sheltered Harbor, the not-for-profit industry organization dedicated to…

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for digital transformation across every sector. Over the past several months we’ve seen major disruption to many industries and organizations at a pace like never before.  Hospitals, schools, businesses, government, organizations, and communities now depend on the Internet in order to function at the most basic level. Now, more than ever, technology is an essential part of our lives. The “new normal” has become just normal. We have…

Register to attend the live webinar November 17, 9AM PDT. Cisco SecureX is a cross-product, cross-vendor security toolset that combines threat intelligence and defensive and response capabilities from multiple Cisco and third-party security and networking products. SecureX uses the APIs of these products in a coordinated fashion to bring security operations teams unprecedented simplicity, visibility, and efficiency. New updates for SecureX Now you might have noticed, Cisco SecureX has made some great updates recently: New…

Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Alisdair McKeand of CAE Technology Services, a Cisco Gold Partner in London, UK. I’m sharing our conversation as it illustrates the power of Cisco APIs and one of the methodologies – called JumpStart – that we use to assist resellers in developing new platform-enabled software to expand their market reach, implementing a successful go to market plan and building a sales pipeline. Click here to watch Julia’s…

Tags provide an easy way to associate strings that look like hash tags (e.g., #HOME) with commands that you run on the command line. Once a tag is established, you can rerun the associated command without having to retype it. Instead, you simply type the tag. The idea is to use tags that are easy to remember for commands that are complex or bothersome to retype. Unlike setting up an alias, tags are associated with…

When it comes to effectively managing a multicloud environment, there are a ton of network and application metrics that enterprise customers should be watching. Among enterprises, the trend is toward multicloud environments, which can include workloads running on-premises and in public clouds run by multiple cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM/Red Hat, Google Cloud Platform and others. Gartner predicts by 2021, more than 75% of midsize and large organizations will have adopted some…