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You know the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) for its Let’s Encrypt certificate authority, the most popular way of securing websites with TLS certificates. The group wants to do more. Its newest project, Prossimo, seeks to make many basic internet programs and protocols memory-safe by rewriting them in Rust. Rust, like some other memory-safe programming languages such as Go and Java, prevents programmers from introducing some kinds of memory bugs. All too often memory…

The theme of this year’s Partner Summit conference is “Everything Possible,” and it ties perfectly to what’s happening with our partner programs, where we are expanding your possibilities on many levels. We’re giving you new ways to differentiate yourself with your customers, new ways to transact where and how the customer wants to consume, and new ways to earn incentives and rebates based on the value you deliver to your customers. The starting point for…

Back in December of 2019, we took a bold step when we announced that Cisco would be evolving from a pure full systems company to one that also embraces a true disaggregated consumption model for the open-source community. Customers can now leverage our world-class technology in a way that best meets their needs. Our entrance into the routing and switching merchant silicon market is a unique value proposition. Cisco stands alone in this space because…

Next-generation 7050X and 7060X delivers two times the performance SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET), a leader in data-driven networking, today announced the next generation of the widely deployed 7050X and 7060X Series, providing performance and cost benefits for customers of all sizes as they transition to 400G networks. Arista Expanded 400G Series (Graphic: Business Wire) The introduction of the 7050X4 and expansion of the 7060X Series, combined with the Arista 7280R3 / 7800R3,…

Experiences matter to our customers. Think back 20 years, when Blockbuster dominated the movie rental business. Netflix began renting DVDs via subscription and delivered them through the mail. Customers no longer had to travel to a retail store for their evening entertainment. Blockbuster went bankrupt because their experience couldn’t compete. That’s why we’ve created an Enterprise Agreement that dramatically improves the way customers purchase and consume Cisco software and services. Cisco is launching its third-generation…

The CRN 2021 Tech Innovators Award is an incredible endorsement for Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard, a cloud-based dashboard that helps operations teams manage industrial IoT devices and equipment. IoT Operations Dashboard addresses the needs of enterprises as they move forward in their digitization journey. The promises of digitization at the edge through industrial IoT are many. They include gaining operational efficiency, improving customer experiences, and enhancing business resiliency. Deploying an industrial IoT solution provides connectivity…

Back in 2010, transforming Cisco’s world-class product portfolio into one of the largest software companies in the world felt like a daunting mission. Historically, the company is touted as the top hardware provider, supplying the backbone of corporate and public networks everywhere. And while this remains true, 10 years later at our Investor Day in September 2021, Cisco forecasted that half of revenue will come from software and other recurring sales by 2025. That’s nearly…

Cisco Partner Summit is always a time to celebrate the incredible things partners have made possible, and every year, as part of this great event, we recognize our top-performing partners and their incredible achievements. I’m thrilled to announce the 20 global partners receiving top honors at this year’s Partner Summit. Each partner was selected for their innovation and the ways in which they are defining new experiences, driving more engagement, and delivering greater value for…

Organizations sustained and thrived in the recent past by rapidly adopting digital transformation technologies and adapting to remote work. As organizations look ahead to the upcoming year, flexibility is top of mind for both business leaders and employees. Executives are looking to embrace a hybrid work model that enables employees to find balance between working remotely and working from the office. But with cyberattacks on the rise, security is a key ingredient in the recipe…

Find the code sample for this project on DevNet Code Exchange Selenium is an open-source tool that automates web browsers. It provides a single interface that lets testers automate user actions using multiple programming languages such as Ruby, Java, NodeJS, PHP, Perl, Python, and C#. But what if we try to automate some tasks that we can do only by using Web GUI interfaces/Dashboard? Let’s check it out. Some of the described examples were born…