NETWORKING

Why is it that over 90% of enterprises tell me that they expect to spend more on security over the next three years, and almost 60% say they expect to spend less on networking? We obviously think that network technology is getting more efficient, more competitive. Why isn’t that the case for security? The short answer is that enterprises have been chasing acronyms and not solutions. Acronym-chasing comes about because by nature, security is hard…

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Governments of today harness digital technologies to improve resident services, security, and economic prosperity. To accomplish this the foundation for operations must be built on a secure platform from the edge to the cloud and across multiple domains. A digital networked infrastructure connecting people, devices and assets across a city, county or state enables critical infrastructure protections, seamless secure mobility and transportation intelligence, public safety, and security. Being able to leverage these diverse data sets,…

Since 2009, Cisco UCS Unified Fabric has been one of the key differentiators between UCS servers and the rest of the industry. Unified Fabric is the combination of data, storage, and management traffic on a single cable. This greatly simplifies your server and networking infrastructure and provides both CapEx (adapters, cables, switches) and OpEx (warranty, power & cooling, management) savings. Cisco’s unified fabric is a single cable that connects the UCS X-Series chassis to the…

This is the first blog in a series focusing on digital innovations within the financial services industry where we look at some of the most common IT challenges through use cases in financial services enterprises, and how advancements in technological capabilities help manage these modern challenges around hybrid-cloud operations, starting with online banking services. We’ve come a long way in online banking services technology since before the inception of the Internet. Early remote banking services…

In this blog post we will discuss how to add visibility, threat detection, security analytics, and alerting inside of your Kubernetes cluster using Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics (formerly known as Stealthwatch Cloud). This is the fourth blog post in a series. In case you have missed the first three parts, you can check them out here: At the bottom of this blog post, we have a demo video that walks through everything discussed in this…

As my grandpa used to say, “You can’t fix what you can’t see ”which is true of most things these days —including employees returning to work. How do you know about their environment, their experience, and their security if you lack the visibility to know what’s going on? From networking, security, and the physical environment itself, there is a lot to consider. And as the world continues to change, we can leverage data to make…

We have a blog series that focuses on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Each blog in this series highlights a different Cisco employee who works closely with CSR initiatives across the company. Guided by our goal to help create a circular economy, Cisco is working on making products easier to reuse, refurbish, and recycle and for our customers to return them to us to close the loop. Why is a circular…

I had always believed that I would earn a CCIE certification one day if I put in the effort. I don’t say that lightly. The CCIE, or Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert, is the most prestigious networking certification in IT. So when they say “nothing worth having comes easy,” they may as well have created that phrase for those on the CCIE certification path. As for me, I am not the exception. My IT journey began…

When you’re trying to find your way around the Linux file system and want some information on specific commands, the whereis, whatis, and which commands can help. Each provides a different view of the command you’re asking about. In this post, I’ll compare these commands and explain what they tell us and what they don’t tell us. which The which command is the simplest of the three. When you use it to ask about a…