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Our customers are the heart and soul of everything we do at Cisco and each one of them has an interesting story to tell! Our Q&A series allows us to shine a spotlight on some of our most passionate customer advocates in The Global Gateway community as we learn more about their stories and backgrounds. You may be wondering: What is The Global Gateway? It’s a community for Cisco customers where they can build powerful…

The Future of Hardware Blog Series – Blog #2 In my first blog in this three part series, I discussed the rapid growth of key performance metrics across CPU/GPU cores, memory, network throughput, storage capacity, and peripheral interconnects.  These numbers certainly attest to the sheer scale that the compute industry is willing to throw at the problem of supporting the explosion of workloads and applications that we are experiencing with the mainstream adoption of cloud,…

We’ve all heard the phrases: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; failing to plan is planning to fail. But sometimes even the best plans fall short when attackers come calling on your enterprise. Helmuth von Moltke was famously quoted as saying, “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.” A modern translation would be, “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” This is…

JPMorgan Chase & Co. spent $2 billion on new data centers last year, even as the multinational investment banking and financial services company continued to move data and applications to cloud platforms run by AWS, Google, and Microsoft. The $2 billion is part of the firm’s total annual spending on technology, which amounted to more than $12 billion last year, according to details shared in JPMorgan Chase’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2021 earnings presentation. Looking at…

Data centers are a critical, but often power-hungry, part of the enterprise. But, why exactly do data centers require so much energy? And how can businesses address emissions concerns as well as cut back on the costs associated with cooling data centers? Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president within IDC’s Worldwide Infrastructure Practice, joins Juliet to discuss the status of data center efficiency, what it means within the context of green IT and how technology has…

Anyone who has followed me on Social (or watched my Snack Minute appearances) knows that I’ve spent a lot of time talking about Infrastructure as Code, especially when it comes to HashiCorp and Terraform. The ability to define infrastructure by its intended end-state – regardless of the order in which the resources used to create that state are defined, and do so across public and private zones – is something amazing to behold. This is…

F5 Networks has rolled out an integrated, cloud-based security platform and services aimed at protecting widely distributed enterprise applications. The company used its Agility conference this week to introduce its overarching Distributed Cloud Services platform, which will bring together security technologies from recent acquisitions, including Threat Stack, Volterra, and Shape Security, plus its own web-application firewall and other components to offer an integrated, secure, distributed application-management platform for on-prem or cloud deployment. “Modernizing apps includes…

This post was co-authored by Catherine Smith. If there’s one thing that Cisco knows well, it’s change. When the world went remote, then hybrid – so, too, did Cisco. And because we’re the tech behind keeping the world connected through Webex – well, it made it that much easier. For Marketing Interns taking part in the Amplify Program (a year-long program that prepares new grads for their first full-time marketing roles at Cisco), there were…

Much like in sports, preparedness is often the name of the game when it comes to security. That’s why, leading up to this past weekend, the NFL teamed up with Cisco to make sure its Super Bowl LVI network infrastructure was as secure and resilient as possible. Since it’s a live event, 100 percent uptime is imperative for the Super Bowl, ensuring fans don’t miss a moment of the action. The NFL worked closely with…

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks, Inc. (NYSE: ANET), an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments, today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and the full year ended December 31, 2021. Fourth Quarter Financial Results Revenue of $824.5 million, an increase of 10.1% compared to the third quarter of 2021, and an increase of 27.1% from the fourth quarter of 2020. GAAP gross margin…