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ROUND ROCK, Texas, June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) announces Chuck Whitten as its co-chief operating officer (co-COO), effective August 16, 2021. Whitten joins Vice Chairman and co-COO Jeff Clarke and Chairman and CEO Michael Dell to lead Dell’s next phase of growth. “Coming off a record FY21 and first-quarter of FY22, we are growing and our opportunity is growing even faster. Chuck joins the company at a pivotal time to give us greater…

Headquartered in France, ENGIE is a global leader in low-carbon energy and services with more than 160,000 employees worldwide. ENGIE works to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral world through reduced energy consumption and the advancement of more environmentally friendly solutions. With this global mission in its sights, ENGIE needed a network that embraced its strategy and vision to push toward digital solutions. Launching a “Cloud First” initiative, ENGIE’s strategy involved pushing all new applications to the…

It’s widely known the pandemic increased the pace of digital transformation. Yet IT teams continue to face challenges and rising complexity, which threaten to curtail the digital agility they need to adapt to rapidly changing customer expectations and market forces. As shown in Cisco Connected IT Insights, our interactive experience built using the huge volumes of anonymized data generated by our customer base, there’s been a sharp increase in the number of anomalies detected per…

Over the years Cisco IT has built many tools to manage support. We had one tool to track subscriptions, another to keep tabs on service contracts, and yet another to view asset lifecycle information. The problem? We spent too much time correlating information scattered across the different interfaces. When we received a security alert on one interface, for instance, we had to go into another interface to identify the affected assets. Supporting the Cisco network…

Hopefully by now you’ve been embracing industry trends around network programmability.  Many network engineers are learning programming using popular languages like Python.  Indeed, it is a notable part in the blueprint from the DevNet Associate (DEVASC) certification.  You may be like me; you learn by doing.  We start with pretty simple script development to solve some current need – push config changes to many devices, upgrade software images across a set of branch offices, collect…

Intel on Monday expanded its network processor roadmap with the announcement of the Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU). Think of it as the next step in the SmartNIC market, because Intel does. The announcement was made at the Six Five Summit 2021, where Navin Shenoy, the head of Intel’s Data Center Group, announced its intention to create the new processor family specifically for cloud workloads. There has been a move toward dedicated networking chips, called SmartNICs,…

Episode 6 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 6 Overcoming the next hurdle to get to 800G pluggable optics, a conversation with Mark Nowell, part 2 of 4. What are the industry’s technical experts in pluggable optics thinking about today? What are the technical boundaries that the smartest minds are pushing past to make the next generation of high speed optics? In episode 6,…

On June 2nd, the Cisco UCS team was excited to introduce the world to the brand-new Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System powered by Intersight. With UCS X-Series, we intend to simplify data center environments by enabling the deployment of standardized, common hybrid cloud infrastructure that can shape pools of resources to the diverse needs of modern applications. Our tag line is “Un/Box the future”, UCS X-Series is a system that visually looks like a chassis…

SecureX turns one year old next month. It has been quite a journey from the first announcement at RSA Conference 2020, when there was one 3rd party integration (VirusTotal), to the release of SecureX the summer of 2020 with a large ecosystem. When SecureX was launched, we had several turnkey partner integrations into SecureX, like the Splunk add-on and QRadar extension. However, for all other SecureX threat response 3rd party modules, there was a requirement…

Cisco has extended its family of Catalyst networking gear with routers designed to integrate remote, industrial-edge network resources. The new Catalyst 5G Industrial Router family includes three modular routers and a gateway that run Cisco’s core operating system, IOS XE, and support a variety of network access technologies such as SD-WAN, Wi-Fi 6, 5G, 4G, Private LTE, FirstNet and Wi-SUN. The ultimate goal is to let customers tie together enterprise networks and SD-WANs with remote…