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Meet Alice, she is a developer at a fast-growing company that creates a face filter app. What is Alice’s worst fear? Seeing her competitor launch the newest filter into market first.  Their security team lead, Bob, would have probably hoped that her worst fear would be writing vulnerable code. More often than not, however, this is not top of mind for developers like Alice. So, as you’d expect, Alice and Bob sometimes have difficulties communicating…

One year ago, we announced the Cisco 8000 Series routers, combining the revolutionary Cisco Silicon One chipset and Cisco IOS XR, to deliver a breakthrough in high-performance routers. The first platforms shipped leveraged the Silicon One Q100 chipset, doubling the network capacity of all other high-scale routing ASICs. The award-winning Silicon One Q100 chipset is the first routing silicon to eclipse the 10Tbps network bandwidth benchmark, without compromising carrier-class capabilities, e.g., feature richness, large queue…

Researchers at Gartner said that all IT spending segments—from data center to enterprise software—are forecast to have positive growth through 2022 with overall IT spending projected to hit $4.1 trillion in 2021, an increase of 8.4% from 2020. Gartner forecasts the highest growth will come from devices such as laptops, desktops, tablets, and mobile phones (up 14%) and enterprise software (up 10.8%) as organizations shift their focus to providing a more comfortable, innovative and productive…

Dan Sheldon, Senior Consulting Systems Engineer at WWT, has a truly ambitious goal for using technology worldwide: celebrate uniquely local stories.  Here, we discuss how he prepares to “climb every mountain.” SECURITY Before taking the first step on any new journey, we need to know what our support systems is.  Cisco Partners help customers embark on transformational endeavors, providing guidance, course correction, and assistance, step by step by step.  One of the reasons why World…

As the calendar turns to April 2021 we’re reflective about the past year and more importantly, looking forward with determination and hopefulness. Along with the continuation of successful public health measures such as mandatory masks and social distancing, as vaccine administration in the APJC regions grows, we find ourselves cautiously optimistic. A successful rollout – both in our region and abroad – provides a clearer path forward to a more open world in 2021. Vaccine…

CloudVision 2021 extends cognitive client to cloud experience SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced CloudVision® 2021, a further expansion of Arista’s software-driven approach for modern enterprises. CloudVision 2021 delivers new automation capabilities designed to improve network agility and streamline enterprise business outcomes. “Arista’s solution provided us with the ability to deploy quickly through automation combined with high-level visibility. It saved us a lot of time, and we met the goals, which included…

System crashes. Outages. Downtime. These words send chills down the spines of network administrators. When business apps go down, business leaders are not happy. And the cost can be significant. Recent IDC survey data shows that enterprises experience two cloud service outages per year. IDC research conservatively puts the average cost of downtime for enterprises at $250,000/hour. Which means just four hours of downtime can cost an enterprise $1 million. To respond to failures as…

Texas is a state known for many things – extreme winter weather isn’t one of them. But there we were, with a week of weather that dipped well below our average temperatures into single digits. My mom and I sat in our car for three hours, trying to generate warmth, and put on our best Survivor impression as we watched the news of over 4 million Texans being impacted by this unprecedented winter storm. Texans…

If you don’t already work in a “smart building,” chances are that you will soon. By 2025, more than 75% of new construction will fit this category—and that’s not counting existing buildings. Connecting building systems like heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, physical access controls, and fire detection to the IP network can increase energy efficiency, health, comfort, and safety. But smart building networks need security protections. Attacks on a building controllers can shut down heating…

Intel today launched the third generation of its Xeon Scalable server-processor line with more than three dozen new chips built on its long-overdue 10-nanometer manufacturing process and featuring a host of specialized features for security and AI. The new chips were developed under the codename Ice Lake and were long in coming, due to the delays Intel had getting its manufacturing process down to 10nm. AMD, through its TSMC manufacturing partner, is at 7nm and…