NETWORKING

What is Cisco ACI? Since its development in 2012, Cisco ACI has been the industry’s most secure, open, and comprehensive software-defined networking (SDN) solution. ACI enables automation that accelerates infrastructure deployment and governance, simplifies management to easily move workloads across a multifabric, hybrid cloud or multicloud framework, and proactively secures against risk arising from anywhere.  It radically simplifies, optimizes, and expedites the application deployment lifecycle. Cisco ACI enables customers to build a truly agile and…

Late last year, Kaustubh Das unveiled our ambitious vision for the Intersight Hybrid Cloud Operations Platform. Today, we are excited to share details of the latest updates and new services in the industry’s smartest and simplest cloud operations platform. diving deeper into hybrid cloud operations with Intersight Today, applications are at the very core of the digital experience for most enterprises. Companies in every industry use software and applications to engage with their customers. And…

The internet is rapidly becoming a universal and economical choice to connect the widely distributed workforce, workplaces, and cloud applications that comprise the essence of the new normal enterprise. In response, ITOps is fast at work rearchitecting the enterprise WAN to adapt to increasing reliance on cloud and SaaS applications via internet connections from branches and home offices. However, ITOps teams are being challenged to deliver consistent and reliable connectivity and application performance over networks…

As the world returns to work, new technologies, focal points, practices, and responsibilities are raising the bar for networking excellence. Operators continue to meet rising application demands in an accelerating and evolving digital business environment. Advanced network analytics and automation solutions are essential to manage these ever-growing requirements with the same resources. The result is increased visibility, faster troubleshooting and remediation and greater control over the network infrastructure, networked resources, connected end users and endpoints….

We are very excited to announce new Secure Network Analytics features! With release 7.3.2, we have furthered our efforts to extend the zero-trust workplace to anywhere on any device through significant enhancements to Secure Network Analytics’ ability to provide complete and continuous remote worker visibility and have also expanded data collection from integrated Cisco Secure solutions to offer extended visibility beyond the parameters of the traditional network, and more! Preamble: The great network visibility blackout of 2020…

Over the past 20+ years, Snort has become the de facto standard by which all network intrusion detection systems are measured. The release of Snort 3 in January 2021 represents a significant upgrade to the tried and tested network security tool. Snort 3 includes important updates going so far as to change the entire code base from C to C++. It consists of some entirely new code, some rewritten code, and some code ported to…

We are very excited to announce new Secure Network Analytics features! With release 7.3.2, we have furthered our efforts to extend the zero-trust workplace to anywhere on any device through significant enhancements to Secure Network Analytics’ ability to provide complete and continuous remote worker visibility and have also expanded data collection from integrated Cisco Secure solutions to offer extended visibility beyond the parameters of the traditional network, and more! Preamble: The great network visibility blackout of 2020…

No one who works in technology operations – network management, software engineering, security, or IT – needs to play Whac-A-Mole when they go to the arcade. Because it’s a game we play in real life every day. We focus on the gopher holes in our domains, and keep smacking down the issues as they pop up. Hopefully, fast enough to solve them. In our jobs, as in Whac-a-Mole, it’s critical that we focus on observing…

There’s an adage that states if you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.  The same can be said for your network and datacenter infrastructure. Agile infrastructures that enable secure connectivity, flexibility, scalability and reliability, while delivering high-performance are imperative for dynamic business critical operations. According to Gartner, by 2025, 85 percent of infrastructure strategies will integrate on-premises, colocation, cloud, and edge delivery options. Hybrid/multi-cloud architectures satisfy customers’ demands for agility….

The continuous influx of open-source software (OSS) into enterprise IT departments is, in many ways, an enormous boon to both vendors and users. For the former, the ability to use open source components means getting rid of a great deal of duplicative effort—rather than having to design every part of, say, an IoT sensor and monitoring product from scratch, a vendor can adopt a well-understood, well-supported open source library for its networking stack, and focus…