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Co-Authored by Eugene Vakulenko, Engineering Product Manager, Cisco One Size Does Not Fit All Gone are the days of lift-and-shift cloud migrations. As countless companies have learned, there’s too much complexity, too many options, and no such thing as a one-size-fits-all panacea. As a result, “hybrid” and “multicloud” IT operations have moved from trendy buzzwords to enterprise realities, and I think it’s safe to say most companies are still getting used to this new reality….

After Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukraine asked the internet governing groups to cut Russia off from the internet. These bodies, including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), refused. Two of the main backbone internet providers, Lumen Technologies and Cogent, indicated they would sever Russia’s internet ties. Their actions speak louder than their words though. Internet analysis company ThousandEyes has shown that Russia’s backbone Internet connectivity remains pretty much the same as ever.  In other…

Cyberattacks hit organizations every day.  Attackers continue to develop new tactics that evade front line defenses. Ransomware is also proliferating, with the number of successful, and expensive, ransomware attacks increasing year over year. And as hybrid work becomes the new normal, knowledge workers and their endpoints are increasingly exposed to threats beyond the reach of legacy corporate network security. Compounding this is the rising cost of a security breach, increasing almost 10% between 2020 and…

Co-authored by Amit Sinha, President and CCO at WorkSpan   The world of partnering has changed dramatically in recent years. With the wave of digital transformation, the shift to the cloud, and the acceleration of innovation and competition, successful organizations are investing today to be ahead of the curve in what’s being described as “The Decade of Ecosystems.” Cisco has one of the largest partner ecosystems in the technology world and has been on a…

I consider myself an eternal optimist. In my wildest dreams, I could never have imagined a global pandemic, social justice issues, humanitarian crisis and threats of nuclear disaster in the present time. Yet, here we are, and I still see hope and the silver lining of more quality time with loved ones and new skills and hobbies.  And on a more macro level, the worldwide reduction of carbon emissions that resulted from virtually all of…

This year, server vendors will begin shifting to a new form of memory, Double Data Rate version 5, or DDR5 for short. With its improved performance, it will be very appealing in certain use cases, like virtualization and artificial intelligence. We’ll get to that in a minute. The DDR spec has been developed by the Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council since 2001, and with each iteration the spec supports faster speed and lower power draw….

There are a lot of articles and books about machine learning. Most focus on building and training machine learning models. But there’s another interesting and vitally important component to machine learning: the operations side. Let’s look into the practice of machine learning ops, or MLOps. Getting a handle on AI/ML adoption now is a key part of preparing for the inevitable growth of machine learning in business apps in the future. Machine Learning is here…

For the first time, 5G-capable smartphones outsold 4G/LTE devices in global monthly sales in January 2022, as demand for 5G upgrades reached its highest point yet, according to a report issued by Counterpoint Research. The upward trend of 5G smartphone sales has been accelerating for some time, and Counterpoint’s report said that Western Europe and North America’s proportion of 5G sales has reached 76% and 73%, respectively. According to Gartner director analyst Bill Menezes, recent…

Cisco Radio Aware Routing addresses several of the challenges faced when merging IP routing and radio communications in mobile networks, especially those exhibiting ad hoc (MANET) behavior. This technology has applications in the defense industry as well as state and local government for search and rescue, law enforcement, and disaster assessment. Looking at the Real-World Problem Description – Mesh Topology The above network is a voice, video, and data network between moving vehicles that consists…

The NFL, March Madness, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, and more – the wish list of streaming experiences your subscribers are vying for is never-ending. Are you and your network ready? Here’s some good news for service providers in rural communities. As you invest to expand broadband access and reach more unserved and underserved rural households, you now have an opportunity to augment your broadband service with content experiences that can both delight your customers…