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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.  – Leonardo da Vinci For IT, complexity is the antithesis of agility. However, with the increased demand for remote healthcare, distance learning, hybrid work, and surging dependence on online retail, there is an urgent shift to hybrid and cloud-native applications to keep up with the necessary digital transformations—thus adding complexity. Hybrid cloud is now the reality for nearly all enterprises. Workloads are distributed across on-premises, edge, and public clouds. However,…

At DevNet Create last week, our community shared over 150 technical sessions for network and cloud developers. We had sessions for people just starting out, for app designers, for API creators, and for infrastructure operators. It was a great lineup. You should definitely browse the full line up to find sessions that match your interests. That said, I want to focus on 10 essential talks I think everyone should see. You’ll see a heavy representation…

Cost-efficiencies. Scalability. Mobility. Flexibility. These attributes of the cloud were driving adoption by organizations in every industry even before Covid-19 hit. Then, with challenges such as strained supply chains, stay-at-home orders, and an emerging new hybrid work reality, cloud adoption went into overdrive, spurred by renewed digital transformation priorities. In response to the pandemic, 61% of IT leaders planned to accelerate their digital transformation efforts, according to the 2020 IDG/CIO Covid-19 Impact study.  The cloud…

WOW – what an amazing event WebexOne turned out to be! With over 57,000 registrations, amazing keynotes, and impactful breakout sessions, we earned accolades across the board. Let me extend a big, “Thank you,” to all our partners for your attendance, participation, sponsorship, and support in driving customer registrations. This event would not have been made a success without you. Thank you! For me, the incredible pace of Webex innovations that has taken place this…

Wireless connections are ubiquitous and have become a part of our daily lives. But planning and then maintaining a Wi-Fi network, optimized for today’s radio coverage and capacity requirements, may not be a daily or even yearly task for an otherwise seasoned network administrator. While Wireless technologies are ubiquitous, they still interact with the physical environment.  Architecting the best coverage for a specific environment depends on many different factors like obstacles (walls, doors, windows), building…

Organizations have increasingly embraced the Internet, cloud, and SaaS as part of their network infrastructure.  While this new trend has enabled organizations to achieve new efficiencies in terms of agility, scale, and cost savings, it brings additional complexity. Network and IT teams are now consistently challenged to deliver application performance over networks they don’t have direct visibility nor control. Lack of network visibility severely hinders the ability to manage increasingly complex network environments. Application issues…

We are at a fascinating time in the technology industry. As Cisco Fellow Rakesh Chopra put it, we are seeing a confluence of technology, business, and moral imperatives that drives focus on sustainability in a way that has never been seen before and creates the perfect melting pot for innovation.   On October 8th, 2021, Stephanie Chan from the Cisco Newsroom moderated an informative and timely #CiscoChat panel of Cisco experts to discuss Cisco’s impactful initiatives in this realm. The panel included:  Rakesh Chopra: Cisco Fellow  Sripriya Narayanan: Product Manager, IoT  Dr. Cynthia…

This post was co-authored by Anna and Paul Burke. One of Cisco employee’s favorite hashtags might be #LoveWhereYouWork, but in our story, #LoveWhoYouWorkWith, is a close second! Being a part of the Cisco Sales Associates Program (CSAP), we had high expectations: we, of course, expected to learn a lot, to make life-long friends, and to jumpstart our careers. What we didn’t necessarily expect to find was the person that we wanted to share the rest…

NetApp used its virtual NetApp Insight 2021 conference as the launchpad for several new technologies and enhancements to existing products, as well as to announce an acquisition. All are meant to bolster the on-prem storage supplier’s cloud offerings. First up, NetApp introduced ONTAP 9.10 Enterprise Data Management software, which includes upgrades that protect against ransomware and enhanced detection and recovery capabilities. The new software also features expanded data management capabilities and NVMe/TCP support. NVMe traditionally…

Among the greatest component shortages bedeviling everyone is that of GPUs, both from Nvidia and AMD. GPUs are used in Bitcoin farming, and with massive farms around the world gobbling up every GPU card, getting one is nigh impossible or prohibitively expense. So customers need to squeeze every last cycle out of the GPUs they have in service. An Israeli company called Run:AI claims it has a fix with a pair of technologies that pool…