NETWORKING

Where should we begin? Once upon a time, not so long ago, networking teams got by with basic analytics using SNMP events, syslogs, custom scripts, utilization reports, and simple monitoring tools. How things have changed!! Where are we headed? 60% of transactions either originate or terminate outside of the private enterprise network.1 The Internet has become the new network core. 40% of enterprise workloads will be on public cloud by 2023.2 Applications and services are…

Sjvn I recently moved and along the way my faithful 2016 Sony XBR-75X850D, as such things do, suffered a fatal screen crack. It was time for something bigger and better. I’d long used smaller LG TVs, but since my new place also included a home theater it was time to think big. So, after much research, I got LG’s newest 77″ 4K TV: the 2021 LG OLED77C 3,299.99TV. In a word, it’s impressive. ZDNet Recommends…

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. GIC…

Register for the Network Insider Series webinar on August 19 to learn how to optimize application performance and automate site-to-site and site-to-Google Cloud connectivity.  Did you know there’s a new way to extend Cisco SD-WAN fabric to workloads in Google Cloud and automate site-to-site connectivity over Google Cloud’s highly reliable, global cloud infrastructure? It’s called Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloud and it was made available this March. Read the blog by Jean-Luc Valente, Cisco’s Vice…

The REvil ransomware family has been in the news due to its involvement in high-profile incidents, such as the JBS cyberattack and the Kaseya supply chain attack. Yet this threat carries a much more storied history, with varying functionality from one campaign to the next. The threat actors behind REvil attacks operate under a ransomware-as-a-service model. In this type of setup, affiliates work alongside the REvil developers, using a variety of methods to compromise networks…

ITRenew and Vapor IO are teaming up on an enterprise service that’s designed to bring performance and affordability to edge computing.  ITRenew, which I’ve written about before, specializes in acquiring used data-center gear from hyperscale vendors, refurbishing it, and selling it to data-center operators for much less than new equipment would cost. Up until now, ITRenew focused on enterprise data-center customers. Now it’s eyeing the edge through its partnership with Vapor IO, which specializes in colocation,…

It’s hard to believe that 18 months ago, a major global pandemic turned our world upside down and resulted in unimaginable consequences. Overnight, we had to re-think learning, work, and healthcare. In education, students were immediately moved online; teachers were forced to find new ways to deliver learning, and people had to consider careers of the future. Now, a year-and-a-half later, education is at another critical turning point as we look toward the future of…

Part Foresight, Part Hindsight Intersight has gone further than any other hybrid cloud operations platform before because Intersight was created with 20-20 foresight as well as hindsight. We took what we’ve learned from the past, applied that to what confronts us in the present, and adapted the whole thing to what is coming towards us, at breakneck speed. Voila! Meet the hybrid cloud operations platform that lives at the intersection of what is and what can…

The problem with IoT Management IoT is a diverse realm with a myriad of devices. Successfully scaling enterprise IoT deployments has always been a challenging problem. Each device type may communicate with its own individual data specification. As a result, IoT device management usually involves elaborate vendor-specific applications to manage the overlay devices. This creates a management nightmare. Cisco eliminates this problem with a unified infrastructure which brings device vendors and application developers together to…

Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series switches have become the switch of choice for many enterprises, including the environment that I work in, where Cisco Catalyst 9300 24- and 48-port switches running Gibraltar-16.12.3 code had become the standard for the access layer when more than 12 ports were needed. That was about two years ago, and a year or so after that we began receiving notifications from an onsite location that there were intermittent network outages and…