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Five episodes and eight guest speakers later, we have officially wrapped up our first Financial Services podcast series.  Over the past five weeks, Cisco’s Conversations & Coffee Podcast Channel has focused exclusively on financial services. Each week co-hosts Danny Vicente and Garry Senna welcomed new guests and dove into a different aspect of the industry. In the first episode, “The Future of Financial Services”, Philip Farah, Head of Digital Transformation Services at World Wide Technology…

Application Hosting Overview With the 17.3.1 IOS XE release, Cisco introduced the Application Hosting on Access Point feature. In conjunction with Cisco DNA Center support starting from version 2.1.1, Application hosting on Cisco Catalyst 9100 series Access Points enables developers to create and host applications using Docker style container apps. The Cisco Catalyst series Access Points, through their modular capability and IOx framework, facilitate flexibility for third party software and hardware integration. Application Hosting Topology Let’s…

This blog is co-authored by Matthew McCullough and is part three of a four-part series about DevSecOps. Previously, the series explored a framework for continuous security and looked at one aspect of maintaining application security, a software Bill of Materials (BOM,) and associated vulnerabilities. This blog focuses on application security and how Cisco validates its software based on industry and internal security standards. After an application is developed, multiple tests are run (e.g., unit, functional,…

Arm Holdings has introduced the Armv9 microarchitecture, the first overhaul of its CPU architecture in a decade, with heavy emphasis on security and all things artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Arm, for the unfamiliar, does not make CPUs like Intel and AMD. It makes basic architectural designs that licensees modify with their own special technological sauce. It makes variances for high-performance, mobile, embedded, and edge/cloud. [Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for…

In a previous blog back in December, we announced the Tech Preview of Intersight Kubernetes Service (IKS) which received tremendous interest. Over 50 internal sales teams, partners and customers participated and provided valuable recommendations and great validation for our offering and strategic direction. Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of IKS! Intersight Kubernetes Service’s goal is to accelerate our customers’ container initiatives by simplifying the management effort for Kubernetes clusters across the…

Cisco Blogs / Cloud / New #CiscoChat: Strategies for Infrastructure as Code Automation Across Your Hybrid Cloud It is becoming increasingly complex for IT and DevOps teams to keep pace with expanding cloud footprints and diverse set of technologies that they must manage daily. Tools such as infrastructure as code (IaC) automation can help by reducing or eliminating inconsistent, error-prone provisioning practices across multiple environments. In this CiscoChat, the panel will discuss the outcomes of the Cisco and HashiCorp collaboration to extend the benefits of IaC automation to on-premises and private/hybrid cloud environments. Session attendees…

If you need to access information about Cisco’s optics quickly and easily, we have good news for you. Written with Peter Wong, Product Manager, Cisco Optics A couple of months ago we highlighted two online tools that make life easier when choosing optics for your Cisco switches, routers, and servers. We have received a wealth of positive feedback, which we appreciate. We’re pleased to announce a third tool that has the same look and feel…

As small businesses start unearthing themselves from the rubble of the COVID-19 pandemic, one positive outcome they are likely to carry over is letting their employees to continue to work remotely. This trend is part of a larger movement called hybrid work or hybrid office that promises to transform the “how” of work forever. The Cisco 2020 Global Workforce Survey revealed how significant this transformation might be with nearly 60 percent of the survey reporting that they expect to work from home at least eight days every month.   Small businesses are no exception to this rule. If anything,…

Hear directly from Cisco Partners and their experiences enabling customer agility with DevNet.This video features insights from Rickard Östman of Miradot, Meredith Rose from WWT, Robert Bailkoski of Logicalis, Andra Ehlert from NTT Global and Jose Bogarin Solano of Altus. Each share their own perspective on how they have been skilling up their teams to lead in software and automation and why it was important to ensure that they are equipped with these capabilities to…

Before I started in my new role as leader of Central Partner Operations and Global Partner Readiness, I carefully meditated on what key factors should be part of my team’s strategy, as it is crucial to continue providing our partners and distributors with the guidance needed, so they can achieve the right level of operational maturity and operational business transformation. One concept that came to my mind immediately was that digital is foundational. Why? Well,…