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Dell’s newest entry-level block storage array is the PowerVault ME5 series, aimed at price-sensitive customers with a focus on ease of deployment and affordability. The array’s predecessor, the PowerVault ME4, was released in 2018. So it was overdue for an upgrade – and Dell delivered. The ME5 features significant performance and capacity improvements compared to the ME4. Between the hardware and software upgrades, Dell says the PowerVault ME5 offers twice the performance, throughput, capacity and…

What does turnkey mean, exactly?  Turnkey implies that an end user simply must turn a key to start using a product or service. But what if the key is hard to turn? The desire for a vendor’s product to be turnkey is not a new ambition. I may be dating myself, but perhaps you remember a term introduced by a vendor in the 90’s called plug and play. Then, perhaps you’ve heard network engineers say,…

5G connections will represent one-fifth of all worldwide mobile connections as of this year, putting those connections above the 1 billion mark for the first time, and that number will double by 2025, according to the GSMA (GSM Association). The GSMA’s Mobile Economy Report, published Wednesday, also said that 5G penetration is moving faster than either of the two previous major generations of mobile networking technology — while neither 3G nor 4G topped 2.2% of…

Cisco Blogs / Inside Cisco IT / Cisco Applauds Senate Passage of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 Statement of Eric Wenger (Senior Director, Technology Policy, Global Government Affairs) on the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022: Cisco congratulates Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ranking Member Rob Portman (R-OH) on their bipartisan efforts to successfully pass the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 through the Senate. Effective…

Cisco Blogs / High Tech Policy / Cisco Applauds Senate Passage of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 Statement of Eric Wenger (Senior Director, Technology Policy, Global Government Affairs) on the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022: Cisco congratulates Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ranking Member Rob Portman (R-OH) on their bipartisan efforts to successfully pass the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 through the Senate. Effective…

Terraform expands into the extensive Cisco IOS XE programmability and automation ecosystem IOS XE’s vast, programmable feature set The Cisco IOS XE ecosystem is programmatically managed and supports a variety of tooling. This includes Ansible to YANG Suite, pyATS over NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNxI, and even with legacy CLIs. With the addition of the new Cisco IOS XE Terraform provider, we add an additional tool into the IOS XE configuration management toolbox. In the programmability lifecycle,…

Cisco Blogs / SP360: Service Provider / How optics can make or break your network: An interview with Network World The word is spreading. In our Cisco Optics blogs and the Cisco Optics Podcast, we discuss optics as they are related to network technology and operations. Now that discussion is reaching beyond Cisco media platforms. Back in September of 2021, Barabara Call of Network World interviewed me about the growing importance of pluggable optics. It…

Cisco Blogs / Networking / Extend Visibility into the Internet, Cloud, and SaaS with Cisco SD-WAN and ThousandEyes As SD-WAN has evolved to connect users across multicloud, branch, datacenters, and hybrid workforce; enterprises and organizations alike need a network analytics solution that provides enhanced visibility and insights to help them take control over such a dynamic environment.​ The integration of Cisco SD-WAN and ThousandEyes brings end-to-end visibility into application delivery and network performance beyond the traditional enterprise network…

Last week, ThousandEyes hosted its very first Partner Connection event and to the nearly 5,000 participants that signed up – thank you. Thank you for your interest, for showing up, and for being a partner in every sense of the word. In today’s new reality, cloud has become the new data center, SaaS the new application stack, and home the new office. And the connective tissue to keep all of this running? The internet itself,…

Cisco Catalyst 9136 Let’s be honest, no matter where you live or work, the last few years have been a challenge. But you know what they say about challenges, right? They’re just opportunities that you never saw coming. Aphorisms aside, the challenges of the last few years have presented you with an opportunity. The opportunity to transform your workplace into a place that is powered by hybrid work. Before this piece delves into the how…