NETWORKING

Part 2: Optimizing Application Experience As applications are migrating to the cloud and being offered either as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or built as cloud native infrastructure, the network must become more application aware, programmable, and intelligent to deliver the best experience to users. My previous blog post discussed how Cisco Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) provides seamless connectivity to applications from anywhere. This blog post explores how applications can take advantage of and work cooperatively with the network to…

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.   Globally,…

Novel next generation routing endorsed by service provider customers SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET), a leader in cognitive cloud networking, announced today the expansion of its cloud-grade routing solutions for next generation network edge roles in the multi cloud era. Arista’s EOS® (Extensible Operating System) enhancements for cloud and service provider customers transform edge and backbone routing, migrating from legacy routers to software-driven, highly available and scale-out architectures for faster time to revenue…

Cloud technologies have definitely proven their value to the public sector over the last 18 months. Agile and powerful, the cloud offers governments the ability to innovate at scale while leveraging existing infrastructure to affordably modernize government IT. But things are just heating up for the future of cloud. As current cloud strategies become proven, they’ll need to evolve into something new – a “Future Cloud” approach. In a recent Q&A with Government Technology, I…

At 15, I was diagnosed with depression. I always felt it should be something I hide away and never bring up at a job interview or on an application form. I always thought it is something to be ashamed of – that my gaps in employment should have solid explanations – and that my reasons for dropping out of my first year at University (“I didn’t like the course” or “I wanted to travel”) were…

Storage will never be as fast as system memory–that’s just the nature of system architecture. But thanks to NVMe (nonvolatile memory express), SSDs can deliver such blazingly fast performance, the penalty of “going to disk” tends to be miniscule. NVMe encompasses a family of specifications for how software talks to storage. It works over a number of transport methods, including PCI Express, RDMA, and TCP. Storage arrays that support the NVMe standard are the sports cars…

There are quite a few shells on Linux system and more that can be easily added. This post examines some of the more popular shells, how they differ and the files that contribute to their configuration. The default shell on most Linux systems is bash. Unless you make an effort, any user accounts added to the system will be assigned bash as their login shell. Bash has been around since 1989 and was meant to…

IDC Uncovers the latest trends and advice for financial services. The events of 2020 will leave a lasting impact on the financial sector as institutions accelerated the shift to a digital environment, both for customers and their employees. Digital transformation has raised the bar for financial services, dictating seamless, personalized interactions during branch visits. The banking industry is making great progress toward transformation and resiliency, however, the work isn’t done until institutions can effectively monitor, measure, and…

In collaboration with Jon Woolwine, Steve Sheldon, Touseef Ahmed Gulgundi, Alisha Sanchez, Oliver Agpalasin, Prashant Bhadoria, Earl Dimaculangan, and Mahadevan Varadarajan   In 2014, we realized our world in network engineering was changing rapidly. Like many IT organizations, we saw a shift to the internet and cloud services in our network traffic . Over that year alone, we observed a 200% increase in peak internet and cloud traffic. That’s when we knew our network needed…

In collaboration with Earl Dimaculangan, Steve Sheldon, Touseef Ahmed Gulgundi, Alisha Sanchez, Oliver Agpalasin, Prashant Bhadoria, and Mahadevan Varadarajan   In 2014, we realized our world in network engineering was changing rapidly. Like many IT organizations, we saw a shift to the internet and cloud services in our network traffic . Over that year alone, we observed a 200% increase in peak internet and cloud traffic. That’s when we knew our network needed to change…