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Most IT experts embrace the idea of the zero-trust security model. Almost everybody agrees that the zero-trust principles of ongoing verification of users and devices, creation of small zones of control, and granting minimal access to users and devices improves an organization’s security. In fact, a recent Fortinet survey confirmed that organizations understand the benefits of zero trust. Respondents rated “security across the entire digital attack surface,” followed closely by a “better user experience for…

If you’re a real network administrator, you know and love open source Wireshark. For over 15-years, it’s been the tool that professionals use for network traffic protocol analysis. Nothing else even comes close. Now, Sysdig, the container and cloud security company, has hired Gerald Combs, its creator and project leader, to join its open source team. There, Combs will help them with Sysdig-related open-source projects such as  Falco, Prometheus, eBPF, and Sysdig Inspect. In addition,…

Identifying and Resolving Issues IT teams require end-to-end visibility to ensure business critical applications are accessible and running effectively. But they often struggle with siloed processes and juggling multiple tool-sets to manage and monitor the network. They also need to ensure the network configuration is compliant with the established business intent. Cisco just released Nexus Dashboard 2.1.2 and Nexus Dashboard Insights 6.0.2 that addresses these issues and enables IT to identify and quickly resolve issues…

The Q3 Schedule for Cisco’s Partner Success Training Series is Now Live Cisco is investing in partner transformation, helping partners build new capabilities to meet customer needs for business outcomes. In our weekly Partner Success Webinar Training series Thursdays at 8am PT/ 11am ET, we show partners and Cisco partner stakeholders how they can transform their business and deliver expanded value throughout the lifecycle. We do this by offering ready-to-sell strategies for selling Cisco solutions, providing…

Extracting and integrating data into your own dashboard In Part 1, my colleague Mel Delgado gave an introduction to ThousandEyes, and how you can deploy your own ThousandEyes agent at home via a raspberry pi. This SaaS platform is all about providing observability in the WAN with agents running in the cloud, on prem, or on your end host. Users will get insights into latency, packet loss, network hops, BGP routing, but also HTTP page…

At no other time in humankind’s history has every government, business, and citizen in the world held the collective responsibility to act with determination to ensure the sustainability of our planet.  This large-scale transformation of global societies will require coordinated public/private actions to drive consistent environmental, social, and governance (ESG) business practices and fuel investments in innovation and technology necessary for the greening of global economies.  The global community is relying on the financial sector…

Remember when Nvidia was a gaming-card vendor? That doesn’t seem all that long ago but now it’s a full-blown enterprise high-performance computing and AI company that happens to sell videogame cards – if you can actually find them. Its latest move is the acquisition of Bright Computing, a maker of Bright Cluster Manager software that controls the configuration of clustered HPC systems, including Nvidia’s own DGX servers and HGX systems made by OEMs and ODMs,…

Recent wrangling over 5G and Wi-Fi wireless spectrum indiates the breakneck pace of new bandwidths being opoened up to broadband use will continue. The underlying issues are whether newly alloted 5G bandwidth will interfere with airplane safety and whether new unlicensed spectrum will interfere with the backhaul of communications from cell towers. Airlines vs. telecoms The FAA’s well-publicized worries over 5G deployments in the recently auctioned C-band frequencies center on the potential of those 5G…

The Internet of Things has been a hyped technology for years, but the pandemic and its associated tidal wave of remote work pushed its actual use in the enterprise into overdrive. What’s more, IoT is maturing as vendors begin to sell fully functioning applications, not just the components needed for businesses to build their own. The pandemic has already driven sharp growth in the types of technologies for which the IoT is already well-known including…

What a time to be alive! We’ve come a long way since the pandemic began in early 2020, and there have been several unforeseen changes in recent times – both personally and professionally. While these (almost) two years have undoubtedly been difficult, we’ve done our best to persevere as we continue to overcome this period in our lives. Amidst all the uncertainty, however, I’ve found comfort in remembering to appreciate the little things that life…