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ASICS Europe chose a managed Cisco SD-WAN service from Avit Group to deliver on their cloud-first strategy.  The partner, the service, and the technology are all a perfect fit for ASICS and their business. Initially, ASICS focused on Europe, Middle East, African and Russia regions, but have plans to roll out an SD-WAN service globally. In 1949, Kihachiro Onitsuka founded the Onitsuka Company in Japan.  He became a shoemaker.  His goal was to help the…

Leaving college to enter the “real” world always was a scary thought for me. At the end of the day, a new job means presenting yourself to a new group of people. There is always anxiety when meeting new people, however, for those in the LGBTQ+ community – this anxiety extends into many more layers and ultimately needing to find safe spaces where we can truly be ourselves. In 2016, I received a call for…

If you run into problems building, testing or running complex bash scripts, don’t lose heart. There are many ways you can help ensure that your scripts will work flawlessly. In this post, we’ll examine some ways you can lessen the likelihood of errors and how to go about doing some simple but very effective troubleshooting. Through a combination of robust logic that tests for possible problems and some troubleshooting to help detect errors, your scripts…

With increasingly mobile workforces, it’s important to effectively backup corporate data that resides on laptops, which requires a unique set of features not found in traditional backup systems used for desktops attached to corporate LANs. Laptops have all the functionality of desktops, but are readily lost or stolen, have limited bandwidth for connectivity to corporate resources, and can spend unpredictable spans of time disconnected or turned off. So it’s important to find backup options that…

In today’s world, enterprises are undergoing a transition to innovate rapidly, keep up with the competition, and increase application agility to meet ever-changing customer demands. To achieve these goals, they often choose the hybrid cloud infrastructure approach, choosing different infrastructure environments to deploy different types of applications. Some applications are best suited for hosting on-premises, whereas others are better suited for hosting in public cloud. Thus, hybrid cloud is the new normal for many organizations….

We’re happy to announce that AnyWeb has achieved Advanced DevNet Specialization partner status. AnyWeb earned DevNet Specialization status in February of this year. Today, they completed the evaluation to become the first partner in Cisco’s Europe/Middle East/Africa/Russia region to achieve the advanced level. And coincidentally, on the one year anniversary of the DevNet Specialization program. Based in Switzerland, AnyWeb has built a practice around automating, integrating, and enhancing their customers’ infrastructure. When speaking to earning this advanced…

While it’s exciting to see more organizations start to return to the office, it’s a transition that comes with a new set of questions and challenges as customers evolve to meet the flexible working needs of today.  We know our channel partners will deliver answers and solutions to shape the future of work starting with software and hardware to build a bridge for wherever and however customers need to work. To help accelerate the safe return to…

Some questions may never be answered: Tea or Coffee? Cricket or Baseball? Should I implement segmentation in my application environment with or without an agent? Well, if you’ve ever struggled with that last question, I have some good news for you in this blog. If you study the segmentation products market, you will find a significant bifurcation in approach: segmentation via an agent residing within the workload (e.g., host-based firewalls) or by a device that…

Today’s incident response teams operate like hospital emergency rooms (ERs). When an alert comes in—malware infection, intrusion, anomalous behavior, etc.—a specialist is called in for diagnosis and remediation. In cybersecurity, as in healthcare, good preventive care can improve outcomes and reduce costs. At Cisco,  I’ve been a part of a team responsible for imagining a preventive-care approach to cybersecurity—“cyber hygiene.” Here’s our current thinking on what’s needed. Foundation: a holistic view of digital assets The…

  By Curtis Price, IDC, Program Vice President, Infrastructure Service   Service Provider Digital Maturity Index In 2018, IDC developed the Service Provider Digital Maturity Index to define five levels of SP digital maturity. This index provides a roadmap to help SPs assess the progress of their digital journey versus their desired end state. The development of the Service Provider Digital Maturity Index was driven by IDC’s Service Provider Digital Readiness Survey, which analyzed the…