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When we look at our strategic initiatives across Cisco, nothing says “customer-driven,” like what we are doing to support each customer’s unique cloud strategy. Cloud isn’t something we are pushing; it is from listening to customers and their business needs. But this journey, which has been accelerated in response to the global pandemic, is unique for each organization. Many customers want to take a hybrid approach, across many clouds. Teams require flexibility and choice. IT…

In this age of sequels, it’s important to remember that endings are no longer sad. Today Cisco announces the end-of-life for the following Aironet 802.11ac Wave 2 (Wi-Fi 5) Access Points: 1815i, 1815m, 1815t, 1815w, 1830, 1840, 1850, 2800, 3800, 4800, 1540 and Mobility Express. But this isn’t a bad thing. We understand that the Aironet brand has been around for a long time and it might be tough to see it go, but cheer…

Cross-tier Visibility and Troubleshooting On A Single Pane of Glass Today marks an important milestone in Cisco’s Cloud Networking offerings to our customers with the unveiling of new solution for Cisco Nexus Dashboard with our strategic ecosystem partner: Splunk®. We are very excited to announce the availability of “Cisco Cloud Network Insights” App and Add-on for Splunk Enterprise. This announcement comes on the heels of Cisco’s unveiling of the Nexus Dashboard 2.1, a single pane of…

This blog post is a collaboration between David Keith, Cisco; Jayakrishna Mada, Senior Product Manager, ACI and Eugene Vakulenko, Senior Product Manager, Cisco Cloud ACI David Keith, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Delivering Capabilities Companies have sped up their digital transformation efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, with an increased drive for machine learning (ML) powered business operations and the growth of cloud computing accelerating. In addition, with the growth of SDN (Software…

In the United States, there are over 600 Native American and Alaskan Native tribes, representing approximately 1.5 to 2 percent of the population. Lack of critical mass often leads to underrepresentation of Native American viewpoints and representation in racial disparity assessments–particularly in the tech industry. Native Americans make up less than .005 percent of the tech workforce in United States. Environmental, education, and a tech-monoculture (which refers to a generic corporate culture) approach to recruitment…

If you’ve ever left your job for a new one, you probably know the ranges of emotions – unhappy, ready to leave, eager to start somewhere new. I’ve been there. I started my very first job in a state I had never visited. Then, in my second job, I moved to another new state all by myself. Each time had me experience all those feelings, and then, finally, I moved back home to work at…

EOS Network Data Lake architecture endorsed by Equinix, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, Slack, Splunk, VMware, and Zscaler SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced the next major expansion of the Arista EOS® network stack with the introduction of the EOS Network Data Lake (NetDL™). Coupled with the AI/ML-driven Autonomous Virtual Assist (Arista AVA™) and a broad ecosystem of industry leaders, Arista is extending the EOS network stack architecture to provide a high-fidelity…

There are quite a few ways to search through compressed text files on Linux systems without having to uncompress them first. Depending on the format of the files, you can choose to view entire files, extract specific text, navigate through file contents searching for content of interest, and sometimes even edit content. I First, to show you how this works, I compressed the words file on one of my Linux systems (/usr/share/dict/words) using these commands:…

VMware is once again a standalone company as it has officially split with its parent firm, Dell and untied the knot that has held them together since 2016. The move is widely seen as a way for both companies to work with new partners and expand their respective technologies while keep close ties to each other. It also has financial impacts. According to the Financial Times, Dell Technologies will shed its 81% stake in publicly…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Nov. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) has completed the spin-off of its 81% equity ownership of VMware Inc. The spin-off was completed through a special dividend of 30,678,605 shares of VMware Class A Common Stock and 307,221,836 shares of VMware Class B Common Stock distributed to Dell’s stockholders of record as of 5:00 p.m. ET on October 29, 2021. Each share of VMware Class B Common Stock was converted into one share of VMware Class…