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Organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid & multi-cloud strategies and distributing workloads across multiple cloud providers. In the past, location-based restrictions required workloads to run within customer-owned data centers or preferred public clouds, but the increased acceptability of hybrid cloud-based infrastructures has decreased this trend. These days, workload locations are determined more by the nature of the workload and this placement choice has added to the operational complexity for the virtualization administration teams. Today’s administrators must…

Does your business need Real, with a capital R, internet? If that’s your company, you should check out the Comcast Business Gateway. This next-generation Advanced Gateway, when paired with Comcast’s Xfinity Gigabit Pro speeds of up to 3/3 Gigabits per second (Gbps) symmetrical broadband, can deliver Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) speeds of up to 2 Gbps. This new Gateway boasts three Wi-Fi bands of 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz. Together, this reduces interference and increases overall…

Does your business need Real, with a capital R, internet? If that’s your company, you should check out the Comcast Business Gateway. This next-generation Advanced Gateway, when paired with Comcast’s Xfinity Gigabit Pro speeds of up to 3/3 Gigabits per second (Gbps) symmetrical broadband, can deliver Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) speeds of up to 2 Gbps. This new Gateway boasts three Wi-Fi bands of 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz. Together, this reduces interference and increases overall…

The text below is a joint work of Maria Jose Erquiaga, Onur Erdogan and Adela Jezkova from Cisco Cognitive team Emotet (also known as Geodo and Heodo) is a banking trojan, but it is also a modular malware that can be used to download other malware as Trickbot and IcedID [8, 9, 13]. Emotet was observed for the first time in 2014 [9]. In January 2021, in a combined effort by Interpol and Eurojust, Emotet…

Public cloud providers are quickly becoming the biggest buyers of data center infrastructure equipment, as purchasing of hardware and software both rebounded sharply in 2021, according to a recent report by Synergy Research Group. Overall spending grew by roughly 10% in year-on-year terms, reaching a total of $185 billion in 2021. The lion’s share of that spending was on hardware, according to Synergy, with 77% of the total spend going towards servers, storage and networking…

For 11 straight years, Cisco has been honored to receive CRN’s 5-Star rating in their Partner Program Guide. This is a huge honor that we don’t take lightly. According to CRN, the 5-Star designation is for “an elite subset of vendors” with “the most comprehensive line-ups of incentives, training, services and benefits.” And this year, our AppDynamics team also earned 5-Star status for their continued dedication to partners. Since we launched our Cisco Partner Program…

John manages a highly demanding, resilient, secure large Airport network using MPLS/VPLS technologies on Cisco Catalyst® 6800 Series switches. Rapid business growth has led to enable stringent security, partner network integrations, and new guest services. This is the common Enterprise campus network product and virtualization technology transition trend we see globally as our Hospital, University, Financial, and more customer networks are constantly evolving to enable new mission-critical services for highly demanding business applications. IT organizations…

Zero trust (ZT) is a mindset and a method, not a technology. The current push to adopt ZT is driven by an urgent and growing need to make a major leap forward in risk management and attack containment in enterprise networks, a need driven home by every successive wave of ransomware. IT can use the urgency of moving to ZT to root out some of the technical debt in the environment. Specifically, it can be…

For container-based applications that need to scale, the capability to analyze the traffic between services is key to optimizing and managing the system. While the service mesh facilitates communication between microservices, the observability of component traffic and health requires more tooling.  This is where Service Mesh Manager—an add-on to Cisco Intersight—steps in. In Episode 54 of DevNet Snack Minute, we talked with Michael Chenetz, the Head of Content, Community, and Events at Cisco DevNet, about…

At its GPU technology conference (GTC) last year, Nvidia announced it would come out with its own server chip called Grace based on the Arm Neoverse v9 server architecture. At the time, details were scant, but this week Nvidia revealed the details, and they are remarkable. With Grace, customers have two options, both dubbed superchips by Nvidia. The first is the Grace Hopper Superchip that was formally introduced last year, but only broadly described. It…