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Red Hat and Cisco are market leaders offering best in class technology with the solutions to deliver on the business outcomes our customers need.  Red Hat is a clear leader in cloud native with Open Shift and Ansible.  Cisco is a leader in networking and converged infrastructure, both of which matter when implementing cloud native and automation solutions. Implementing automation has become table stakes for the enterprise.  Reducing repetitive, error-prone manual tasks and streamlining infrastructure…

The pro-Trump rioters who invaded the Capitol on January 6 came with smartphones to record and celebrate what they thought was a righteous effort to prevent president-elect Joe Biden from taking office two weeks later. Now those electronic devices, along with the GPS data they generated, are being used to track the location of rioters within the building as federal law enforcement officials continue to make arrests and build criminal cases. Among the acts being…

Cloud migration is a necessary step for digital transformation, which is proceeding faster than planned at many enterprises because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research from Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), a cloud computing organization based in the United Kingdom. The cloud is an important steppingstone for getting off legacy on-prem technologies and outfitting today’s more flexible, remote workforce. Supporting a remote workforce requires a digital transformation, and to do that, companies need the cloud…

I’m back with another question related to model driven programmability.  This one came in from David Frizelle who came to the wonderful world of Model Driven Programmability through radio.  The new O-RAN Alliance (Open Radio Standard) is using NETCONF for configuration interface. How cool is that! Here’s David’s question: When considering a read only leaf in a YANG module, if a get or get-config is done in NETCONF, the read only leaves in the YANG…

What is this? On December 11th, 2020, the U.S. government and the company SolarWinds disclosed a breach into their SolarWinds Orion Platform network management software. This attack was conducted by a sophisticated and likely nation-state based attacker. SolarWinds Orion is a commonly used network management software stack used to manage complex switched and routed IT/OT architectures. High profile customers of the Orion platform are numerous U.S. government agencies, and many private entities. The adversary was…

Just like the businesses they support, modern technologies are more distributed than ever before. No longer confined to a single, centralized data center, infrastructure and applications are in branch offices, retail outlets, and remote work sites. They’re spread across private and public cloud environments. And they’re fueling countless edge and IoT capabilities. What’s good for business can be difficult for IT, of course. Managing, supporting, and scaling these distributed systems and workloads can be extremely…

This blog was written & authored by Rob Tappenden, Technical Marketing Engineering Leader at Cisco Simplicity. This was the key fundamental principle of Cloud Mailbox Defense that we introduced in our earlier blogs. So how did the first customers and partners to try Cloud Mailbox Defense (CMD) think we did? “We have tested dozens of solutions. Cloud Mailbox Defense is the first solution that is ‘as easy as it claims to be’. There are no…

Machine reasoning can automate complex networking management tasks and create workflows for tedious processes. This groundbreaking technology in Cisco DNA Center empowers inexperienced engineers and saves time for seasoned IT pros.   Machine reasoning is a new category of AI/ML technologies that can enable a computer to work through complex processes that would normally require a human. Common applications for machine reasoning are detail-driven workflows that are extremely time-consuming and tedious, like optimizing your tax…

The Create 10x Better Experiences Than in Person Interactions series focuses on enabling and empowering secure inclusive experiences in real-time or anytime, with a focus on seamless collaboration and smart hybrid work experiences Back in the day when face-to-face meetings were the norm, we used things like gestures and non-verbal cues to emphasize or support the words we’d verbally say. The feedback loop is such an important part of effective meetings. Smiles or a thumbs…

Since the earliest days of computing, we’ve endeavored to provide users with efficient, secure access to the critical applications which power the business. From those early mainframe applications being accessed from hard-wired dumb terminals to the modern cloud-based application architectures of today, accessible to any user, from anywhere, on any device, we’ve witnessed the changing technology landscape deliver monumental gains in user productivity and flexibility.  With today’s workforce being increasingly remote, the delivery of secure,…