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Cisco is looking to bolster its enterprise application management suite by buying cloud-based application-performance firm Epsagon for $500M. Founded in 2017, the Israel-based Epsagon develops cloud-based application monitoring software focused on scrutinizing cloud microservices and applications. Businesses are adopting cloud-native technologies, microservices, and containerized components on a large scale while leveraging an extensive web of traditional components, third-party services and application programming interfaces, wrote Liz Centoni, Cisco’s chief strategy officer and general manager, applications, in a blog…

This week’s blog comes to us from Marc Haimsohn, Senior Director of Business Development at Vyopta. Vyopta is a Cisco Solutions Partner that specializes in monitoring, reporting, and analytics in order to increase user adoption and improve ROI for your Cisco investments and collaborations spaces. Companies in the financial services sector – whether established names like Goldman Sachs or newer players in the tech world – have come out most in favor of returning their…

I’m pleased to announce our intent to acquire Epsagon Ltd., a privately held, modern observability company with offices in New York and Tel Aviv. Named by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor in Performance Analysis”† with expertise in distributed tracing solutions for modern applications and technologies, including containers and serverless environments, Epsagon will play a key role in expanding and accelerating Cisco’s comprehensive Full-Stack Observability roadmap. Applications have become part of our everyday life and are…

A private 5G platform designed to offer the latest-generation licensed wireless technology to enterprise users as a service was announced today by Japanese telecom giant NTT. The company said its private 5G-as-a-service platform, which it calls P5G, would use CBRS and other licensed spectrum in the U.S. to provide businesses with their own 5G networks. The company said also that its platform is highly flexible, working with a wide variety of software standards and networking…

Just months after it was considering buying DXC Technology, Atos is reportedly looking to sell some of its legacy business operations, including its data-center and communications businesses. If true, it’s a further sign that the on-prem consulting business is falling out of favor. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that Atos is exploring a sale of its legacy information technology business, including some outsourcing operations. One day later, Atos CEO Elie Girard said during its earnings call…

Enterprise networks are focused on buying full-stack offerings that include key software components such as management, automation and AI but also routing, switching and security rather than a piecemeal approach. That trend is being driven by a post-COVID rethinking of network architecture but also the need to simplify the network and access to cloud resources, says  Juniper Networks’ executive vice president and chief product officer Manoj Leelanivas.  Juniper Networks Manoj Leelanivas “The idea that customers…

Have you ever gotten lost in the APIC GUI while trying to configure a feature? Or maybe you are tired of going over the same steps again and again when changing an ACI filter or a contract? Or maybe you have always asked yourself how you can integrate APIC with other systems such as an IT ticketing or monitoring system to improve workflows and making your ACI fabric management life easier. Whatever the case may…

Co-Authored by Alexandra Zagury Vice President, Partner Managed Services and aaS Sales,Global Partner Organization   Three not-for-profit (NFP) organizations based in Indianapolis — Partners in Housing, the John H. Boner Community Center, and the Englewood Community Development Corporation — provided Internet access to their low-income residents by teaming with IT consulting firm Trajectory, Cisco Managed Service Partner Catalyst Technology Group and Cisco. This is their story. Internet access: A required utility The three NFPs’ combined…

On August 3, 2021, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) released a report entitled “Federal Cybersecurity: America’s Data Still at Risk.” (See: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Federal%20Cybersecurity%20-%20America’s%20Data%20Still%20at%20Risk%20(FINAL).pdf) The 47-page report provided significant detail to support the conclusion that “According to agency inspectors general, the average grade of the agencies’ overall information security maturity is C-.” After nearly two decades of federal cybersecurity and risk management as practiced under the rubric of the Federal Information Security Management Act…

Black Hat is back! What an experience to be attending the first major cybersecurity conference since the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cisco Secure returned as a supporting partner of the Black Hat USA 2021 Network Operations Center (NOC) for the 5th year; joining conference producer Informa Tech and its other security partners. Like other Black Hat conferences, the mission of the NOC is to build a conference network that is secure, stable and accessible…