NETWORKING

We hear a lot about private 5G, meaning 5G networks deployed and owned by individual enterprises. A lot online, anyway; of 177 enterprises I’ve talked with this year, only three said they even knew how to build a private 5G network, and these three learned by doing it. The three discovered an important, but usually unrecognized, question, which is, “What do I it run on?” One reason private 5G gets a lot of attention is…

Customer requirements are keep changing, and Cisco is focusing more on network to be more software-focused and less hardware-dependent. Cisco Smart Licensing supports this vision by software license management. Smart Licensing is a flexible software licensing model that simplifies the way you activate and manage licenses across your organization. Smart Licensing simplifies the way customers activate and manage licenses across their organization in below ways: License flexibility: Licenses are not node-locked to hardware, so customers can easily pool license entitlements and move them…

At Cisco, we are committed to partnering with the federal government to help them meet the mission. These days, that mission relies more than ever on a dynamic security architecture and partners you can trust to keep your workloads, workforce, and workplaces safe. The past year and half have brought unprecedented change: President Biden’s executive order created new and needed requirements to federal agencies and their industry partners. There have been new requirements for critical…

Now, that we have ventured off into my three-part series called, What in the World of Applications, we have discussed the evolution of applications, the role of application security in our society, and the emergence of Cloud Native technologies. In this next edition, we want to continue building on top of this foundation and introduce a real-world application networking example that illustrates how we benefit from application networking. This will further help you understand why…

Comcast is certainly serious about boosting its corporate networking business. Or the cord cutters are really causing some damage. Maybe both. Either way, Comcast Business just announced plans to acquire privately-held Masergy Communications, an SD-WAN and cloud-based security specialist. Comcast is a public company, but Masergy is not, so terms of the deal were not disclosed. Masergy was acquired by private equity firm Berkshire Partners in 2016. Comcast currently has its own SD-WAN offering through a…

Securing today’s dynamic enterprise applications requires deep visibility, automated recommendations, and efficiency at scale.  With hybrid and multi-cloud adoption, traditional network-based security ran into limitations in mitigating modern day threats. As organizations move their applications and workloads to the cloud, the complexity of their environment increases. They can lose visibility into their cloud-based workloads and those blind spots can be fatal. To ensure application and workload protection, there is a need for visibility into application environments…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Aug. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — News summary Best second quarter in Dell Technologies’ history, driven by strong execution and demand across the IT ecosystem Record second quarter revenue of $26.1 billion, up 15% Record second quarter operating income of $1.4 billion, up 21%, and record second quarter non-GAAP operating income of $2.8 billion, up 7% Full story Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces record financial results for its fiscal 2022 second quarter. Revenue…

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It’s August, as we leap into Cisco’s new fiscal year 2022, it’s the perfect time to thank you for our great joint success over the past 12 months and to share our security priorities and profitability programs so that you can support your customers and drive success in security. The security market represents a huge opportunity for you as a partner and is predicted to rise towards $200B globally. Within Cisco we have seen continued…

We have created a new blog series that will focus on how our nonprofit grant recipients are using Transformational Tech. Each blog in this series will highlight a different nonprofit partner using technology to help transform the lives of individuals and communities. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), an estimated 82.4 million people have now been forced to leave their homes, fleeing conflict, civil unrest, persecution, and areas devastated by climate…