NETWORKING

Secure access service edge, or SASE, combines networking and security into a cloud-based service, and it’s growing fast. According to Gartner projections, enterprise spending on SASE will hit almost $7 billion this year, up from under $5 billion in 2021. Gartner also predicts that more than 50% of organizations will have strategies to adopt SASE by 2025, up from less than 5% in 2020. The five core components of the SASE stack are SD-WAN, firewall-as-a-service…

Ethernet is one of the original networking technologies, having been invented nearly 50 years ago. And yet, because of the simplicity by which the communications protocol can be deployed and its ability to incorporate modern advancements without losing backwards compatibility, Ethernet continues to reign as the de facto standard for computer networking. At its core, Ethernet is a protocol that allows computers (from servers to laptops) to talk to each other over wired networks that…

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…

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…

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…

Part 1 of the 2-part Cisco DNA Center Planning and Adoption My goal for this series is to help you get started with Cisco DNA Center and get the most out of your investment. I am going to sell you on why you want or need Cisco DNA Center because if you are reading this, it is because you are ready to get started but have some questions or concerns about what the heck Cisco…

Digital transformation has upended the rules of the game. Your customers’ environments are becoming even more complex, with more connected people and devices in more places. Research shows that the global digital transformation market was valued at $374.8 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $889.8 billion by 2028. The competition is intense, and we need to prepare our customers for the future. Cisco Marketing Velocity Digital 2022 Marketing Velocity Digital is designed to help you on this…

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…

A new system recovery offering from former IBM division and current managed infrastructure service provider Kyndryl incorporates air-gapped data vaulting technology from Dell for faster recovery from major cybersecurity incidents like ransomware attacks. The Cyber Incident Recovery service is a four-part system, says Kyndryl global security and resiliency practice leader Kris Lovejoy. Kyndryl provides an orchestration tool that offers users a way to respond programmatically and immediately to a cybersecurity event, an analytics tool that…

If you’ve been following my previous blogs on Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO), you’ll be familiar with the refrain that IWO assures workload performance while simultaneously optimizing underlying infrastructure, regardless of whether the workloads are running on-premises or in the public cloud. In this installment, we’re going to focus on public cloud optimization, which differs slightly from its on-premises counterpart. In an on-premises data center, infrastructure is generally finite in scale and fixed in cost. By…