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To gather perspectives on current trends shaping the market drivers and challenges of colocation, Frost & Sullivan recently released its Colocation Data Center Report. In conjunction with this report, Gautham Gnanajothi, the Global Research Director and Head of Best Practices for Energy and Environment at Frost & Sullivan, interviewed Sean Baillie, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Connectivity Strategy for QTS Realty Trust. Gnanajothi: Sean, what key trends will have an impact on the colocation…

Conscia has always had innovation in their genes. To help further that innovation mindset and differentiate themselves in the competitive Danish market, Conscia Denmark recently accomplished the DevNet Specialization and are delivering programmability solutions to their customers. Recently, I sat down with Conscia, and asked them to share their programmability journey with the DevNet community… Tell us about your company… “Conscia has been an infrastructure integrator since our beginning in 2003. Through a mix of…

In today’s fast moving and unpredictable world, organizations need to adapt and transform faster than ever. Technology plays a key role in this transformation, and Cisco and our partners have the opportunity to support customers through this journey like never before. In previous blogs and articles, I have described how important is for our partner community to build a Lifecycle Practice to create the best possible Customer Experience for their clients. Now, I would like…

As many organizations are looking at wireless refreshes that include both expansion and upgrades to Wi-Fi 6, those with small, medium or branch locations have some cool (and very useful) new options to consider and should seriously rethink the deployment model. Historically, small, medium and branch wireless deployments have been an operational challenge for many organizations. Some of those challenges include: Solution cost including procurement, deployment, and maintenance, Management complexity Lack of visibility into the…

The COVID-19 outbreak has proved that the internet is not a luxury but a basic necessity. The internet has become an ever more crucial link in adapting to the new normal, and Wi-Fi is seeing an inevitable surge of all time. With networks getting so big and complex, the challenges in managing the network are getting more and more difficult. Wi-Fi Troubleshooting is one of the crucial challenges faced by network admins, involving complex data…

As a Program Manager for the AppDynamics Customer Experience Center (CXC), my job is all about connecting with people, discussing their accounts, and figuring out the best way to support them. It looked a lot different in early 2020 than it does today, as I traveled to meet as many Account Managers as possible and help define the right approach with the then-new program we were rolling out. My husband and I have no idea…

If your computing environment is subject to a large ransomware attack, you will most certainly be enacting your disaster recovery (DR) plan. But before you begin restoring systems, you must first ensure you have stopped the infection, identified it, and removed it. Jumping too quickly to the restore phase could actually make things worse. To understand why this is the case, it’s important to understand how ransomware works. How ransomware spreads in your environment There…

As Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) deployments grow in popularity, Cisco has been one of the pioneers in bringing open networking tenets to the RAN space over more than four years through the O-RAN Alliance. In 2018, Cisco spearheaded the multivendor Open vRAN ecosystem at Mobile World Congress. In 2019 we led the architectural design and network build for the world’s first fully software-defined network, and in 2020 we were the first to collaborate with…

When it comes to combo meals, there are two types of people in the world: those who order the meal set as intended – e.g. a burger with fries and a soda – and those who attempt to customize it – e.g. pickles on the side, switch out fries for onion rings, or upgrade soda to a milkshake. I hate to say it, but I am often the latter. The “Sorry, no substitutions” fine-printed on…

Real time decision making is critical to customer success. Customers that don’t take the necessary steps to build next generation infrastructures and solutions will be stuck with the same basic applications – monitoring, reporting, and simple rules-based operations. They will be unable to transition to the data-driven economy, and at a later stage take part in the upcoming outcome economy. Partners are helping customers enable integration between OT and IT.  Seamless connectivity is realized by…