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Last week I told you about an immersion-cooling firm called LiquidStack being spun off from its parent company, the China-based server vendor Wiwynn. The story mentioned how Microsoft was experimenting with immersion cooling, and now Microsoft has pulled back the curtain on the whole show. It’s been trying out immersion cooling for two years but is now going full throttle, at least at its Quincy, Washington, data center. Situated in the middle of the state,…

Everybody has their own preferred way of absorbing information. Some prefer to read it, some prefer to watch it, and some prefer to listen to it. For those of you in the latter category, we have released the Cisco Optics Podcast. It lives within the Cisco Podcast Network and is available on all major and many not-so-major podcast platforms. Check it out and look for new episodes every two weeks or so. And subscribe! Better…

Until recently, optical systems have been closed and proprietary. They come as a package that includes optics, transponders, a line system, and a management system. In the traditional optical architecture, these components were provided by a single vendor, and interfaces between those functions were closed and proprietary. While the concept of disaggregated or open optical components is not new, some components can now be optimized and sold separately. This enables providers to assemble a system…

There was a time not so long ago when you were at a party and another party goer asked the question “Oh, and what do you do for a living?” Odds are, their answer might have simply been something like “I’m an architect” and from that you could infer that they designed and authored blueprints for construction related to houses and buildings. But these days, you can be a network architect, a security architect, a…

We’re thrilled you were able to join us at Cisco Live Global 2021 last week for all the incredible broadcast content, which was seen by more than 100,000 customers and partners. Now you have three months to access the broadcast and Anytime sessions, including the CX Innovation Talk with Thimaya Subaiya, Cisco SVP, Customer Experience Operations & Renewals, and Alvio Barrios, Cisco SVP, Customer Experience Americas, “Unleash MultiCloud Innovation for Digital Agility,” plus one month…

María Laura Ruggiero, Narrative Designer and Founder of SeirenFilms This blog comes to us from María Laura Ruggiero, Narrative Designer and Founder of SeirenFilms, a storytelling lab based in Argentina with a nomadic spirit and an experimental heart. Hear how Maria’s using this technology for good at Cisco’s upcomingWomen Rock-IT broadcast on April 22. As a filmmaker, I have always been passionate about storytelling in all forms. From bedtime stories or heroic mythology when I…

ISE 3.0 – Control access and contain threats within zones of trust  You wake up to find out that another security incident has occurred. You are confused and not sure how the attacker was able to get by your perimeter. But then you realize you haven’t had a perimeter for some time as it has been pulled apart by cloud, mobility, and IoT. Like your network resources, your permitter is distributed. Now with the sudden…

After graduating high school, I was every country song I had ever listened to – your typical ‘peaker’: captain of the wrestling team, driving a Trans Am, and dating the same girl for over two years. On the surface, everything was great – but as I entered the collegiate chapter of my life, I struggled to find my footing and direction. After the second semester, while friends pursed their sophomore year of college – I…

In the broadcasting space, the competition and need to differentiate is intense. Content is being distributed as quickly as it is produced, and web and app-based channels are powered by high-end smartphones and ever-increasing bandwidth, changing the competitive landscape for traditional broadcasters. The migration of broadcast technology to IP infrastructure is well underway. Nine, a leading free-to-air television network in Australia that broadcasts news, sports, and lifestyle & entertainment content, recognized the need to adapt…

Arista Networks has added intelligent features to its core CloudVision management platform to help manage and automate distributed workloads. CloudVision provides wired and wireless visibility, orchestration, provisioning, telemetry, and analytics across the data center, campus, and more recently, IoT devices on edge networks. CloudVision’s network information can be utilized by Arista networking partners such as VMware and Microsoft. To that mix, Arista has added what it calls CloudVision 2021 and CloudVision Studios, which adds network…