NETWORKING

A shortage of all sorts of processors and other components could affect the availability and price of IT hardware for the next 12 to 18 months, according to CEOs of major tech companies including Intel, IBM, Extreme, Cisco and Juniper. COVID-19 triggered an explosion of the global remote workforce, which created an extraordinary demand for new tech gear. It also forced the shutdown of processor plants, and restarting them and renewing supply chains to their…

In the first installment of this two-part blog series, I described Cisco IT’s motivations for shifting to a software-defined access fabric network – part of our ongoing journey to an advanced network architecture. In this blog, I will explain our guiding principles for implementing Cisco Software-Defined Access (SD-Access), along with lessons learned and outcomes achieved thus far. In Cisco IT’s Customer Zero organization, we partner with various internal business entities to deploy the company’s latest…

5G is enabling accelerated digital transformation and more innovation for enterprises and mobile network operators (MNOs), with support for massive IoT deployments, ultra-high reliability and low latency wireless networks. However, as with all new technologies, 5G also introduces new security challenges that need to be addressed at the same pace of business requirements. To keep pace, and not introduce bottlenecks, security must operate at the same speed as 5G network ecosystems. Indeed, to realize the…

Futurum Research joins the Insider Networking Podcast to talk 400G As we near the mid-way point of 2021, a lot has changed from remote work to technology trends. Data and the transport of data are incredibly important in the modern day we live in. From professionals taking video calls from their comfortable at-home desk to kids enrolled in virtual classes to continue their education – everyone is using the network to complete their daily tasks….

Pure Storage is upgrading to its Portworx Enterprise software that improves the scale of Kubernetes while simplifying the process of supporting multiple platforms. Portworx Enterprise 2.8 features new integrations across Pure’s line of products and services and with VMware Tanzu, VMware’s container-orchestration software. It comes with dynamic storage provisioning on Pure’s FlashArray and FlashBlade hardware and offers unified visibility and support via Pure1, Pure’s AI-drive operations software. This allows volumes and file systems to be…

We have created a new blog series that will focus on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Each blog in this series will highlight a different Cisco employee who works closely with CSR initiatives across the company. Cisco Corporate Affairs Program Manager, Hoa Tran Hoa Tran manages Cisco’s San Francisco Bay Area Community Impact Grants (CIG) program, and Habitat for Humanity Build Grants program, and other employee-engaged initiatives from the Cisco Foundation and…

As dynamic network, data center, and cloud environments become more complex, effective security requires greater visibility and intelligent policy recommendations. We recently co-sponsored a survey of almost 500 security and IT pros, from organizations with at least $250 million in annual revenue, and 73% said they lacked actionable insight in their application environments. That’s a cry for help. The good news for our partners, and their customers, is that help is on the way. Today’s…

It was just over a year ago we were together at the RSA Conference at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. It was just before life as we knew it took an abrupt turn. Looking back, we could have never imagined how the world would change and just how critical the work we do as security professionals would become to businesses, schools, hospitals and governments.  Most organizations did not have a contingency plan for a global pandemic. The digital transformation projects that…

I’ve been fortunate to be part of a few great teams and products. Among the most consequential is Secure Firewall Threat Defense 7.0, announced today at the RSA Conference. We’ve increased throughput by up to 30%—across enabled AVC, IPS, and VPN services—for the majority of Cisco Secure Firewalls. And those massive performance gains are simply the beginning of the story. Today, we’re also announcing a new way forward: NetWORK security. It’s our vision for simplifying…

It’s been a year since Cisco launched SecureX, and we recognize it takes a village to innovate and celebrate. Throughout Cisco’s journey delivering the first-ever integrated security platform to market, our team of experienced cybersecurity experts, accomplished engineers and product management have remained closely aligning with CISOs and security customers to deeply understand—and think ahead of—the challenges of the modern security portfolio. We remain steadfast in our commitment to a radically simplified security experience for…