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Co-authored by Vignesh Rama   As companies progress through their digital transformation journeys, two trends have become clear: IT organizations are migrating to hybrid cloud environments from multiple locations with on-premises failover infrastructure architectures. Developers have accelerated the adoption of cloud-native technologies by transitioning to containers with Kubernetes as the de facto container management standard. In addition, many of these companies are running compute-intensive, container-based workloads — such as AI training and inferencing, data analytics,…

The Transformational Tech series highlights Cisco’s nonprofit grant recipient that uses technology to help transform the lives of individuals and communities. Meshach Malagwi, Mercy Corps Cash and Electronic Voucher Officer In 2017, Cisco and Mercy Corps came together to launch Technology for Impact – a 5-year partnership centered around the shared goal of delivering humanitarian aid and development assistance faster, better and to more people around the world through digital solutions. Now in its final…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Jan. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ —                                                     News summary APEX Multi-Cloud Data Services delivers storage and data protection as-a-Service with simultaneous access to all major public clouds through a single console APEX Backup Services protects SaaS applications, endpoints and hybrid workloads in the public cloud Project Alpine will bring Dell’s block and file storage software to leading public clouds, delivering flexibility and consistency in managing data between on-premises environments and public clouds DevOps-ready platforms and developer…

Intel is collaborating with Green Revolution Cooling (GRC), a startup specializing in immersion cooling for server hardware, in an effort that seeks to take immersion cooling mainstream. The two companies announced a multi-year partnership that involves working with data center customers to develop and implement advanced immersion cooling techniques for future data centers. The two will look to test the safety and reliability of the technology for immersion-cooled racks running Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Immersion…

Better together At a concert, few years ago, the director spoke to the audience and said something that resonated in my mind for long time. His words went like this: the value of the ensemble is greater than the sum of the value of the individual musicians. The meaning was clear. He wanted to illustrate the significance of playing together, as an orchestra, rather than a group of individual sound musicians. The same concept comes…

Part 2 of the Series: AI-Enhanced Infrastructure for AI Ops. In this blog, I’ll continue exploring how an AI-enhanced infrastructure can be used by IT operations teams today.  I’ll discuss the technologies that are involved and how they are powering an AIOps model for ITOps and NetOps teams. What are AI-enhanced technologies? I would like to establish a shared definition: When we talk about technologies powered by AI, we are referring to a set of…

This blog post is a collaboration between Peter Kisich, Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Cloud & Compute & Co-authored by Puneet Konghot, Product Manager, Cisco Cloud & Compute. Recently, we launched Intersight Workload Engine (IWE)  as a simple way for customers to operate their infrastructure and easily run cloud native applications using Intersight Kubernetes Service (IKS) without the need to deploy an external virtualization solution like VMware ESXi. Why We Built It We heard you!  Customers…

Recently I was asked to create a new integration between Cisco ASD (Automated Software Distribution) and Sonatype Nexus Repository. As both expose a decent API, it wasn’t a complicated task (just a matter of ~800 lines of Python code 😳). However, one thing troubled me… Both Cisco ASD and Nexus Repo required the following secrets/variables (see below). Hmmm… what is the best way to protect the values of these secrets/variables? ASD client_id ASD client_secret Nexus repo_token More… One way is to…

Juniper Networks is expanding its portfolio of cloud-based, AI-driven services aimed at managing and controlling intelligent enterprise SD-WAN networks. The latest additions build on Session Smart Routing (SSR) software Juniper acquired when it bought 128 Technology in 2020 for $450 million. SSR promises to reduce the costs of running WANs and SD-WANs by making intelligent routing decisions based on sessions and application needs running over individual traditional tunnels. The additions include zero-touch provisioning with WAN…

Determining the ROI of XDR For many years, defining the return on investment (ROI) for a cybersecurity project, including the ROI of Extended Detection and Response (XDR), was challenging. It was not easy to describe the actual value of many of the protections that were implemented in an organization. Too often, the explanation about how a product could improve security was a nebulous description of what might happen in the absence of that protection. Cybersecurity…