NETWORKING

The marriage of networking and security into the secure-access service edge stands to improve application performance, reduce infrastructure complexity, and protect sensitive data, and as such SASE is an attractive architecture for enterprises large and small. Due to the newness of SASE offerings, though, providers are still building and refining the features of their services, so available offerings are complex, often incomplete and require integration with customer organizations’ existing network and security architectures. Vendors of…

Hank and the Automation Trolley are here to help with your questions! As 2020 was wrapping up I got a great question in over email from a customer I’d been exchanging ideas on automation with for a bit.  It was just the perfect project and distraction to work on as I got ready to start my holiday break. The gist of the question is: We’ve a need to grab the IP table off our core,…

New tools and goodies under the tree After a long year of furthering the network automation space, the holiday season is getting into full swing and folks are starting to take their much-deserved breaks. The DevNet datacenter networking team is no different. But before I sign off for a few weeks filled with lots of coffee and unneeded desserts, I’d like to talk about what new tools and goodies you can use to occupy your…

Sometimes it’s easy to overlook how complete the Cisco Designed small business portfolio really is. So with apologies to partridges everywhere, here’s a holiday Cisco product retrospective from all of us to all of you. Feel free to sing along and read more about how you can simplify your IT. [Verse 1] On the first day of my small business, my Cisco Partner set up for me: [Verse 2] On the second day of my…

Another a year has come and gone, and wow, what a year it has been! The vast majority had never experienced a global pandemic before now, and it’s without a doubt something we won’t forget. We have come together as a united world in unheard of ways, and we have embarked on new paths to business resiliency and personal connection. I will specifically remember how hard each of you worked, not to mention how you made…

    The continued shift toward digital business and remote work has made the demand for consistent availability and flawless performance of applications and digital experiences more critical than ever before. The increased demand to deliver seamless digital experiences has caused enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation projects at record speed, leading to more complex and distributed application architectures that, in many cases, are proving too complex to fully comprehend. No matter the complexity or…

While major attacks like ransomware and COVID-19-themed campaigns made headlines across the globe this year, many attacks were prevented through simple practices of finding, disclosing and patching vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos’ Systems Vulnerability Research Team discovered 231 vulnerabilities this year across a wide range of products. And thanks to our vendor partners, these vulnerabilities were patched and published before any attackers could exploit them. Each vulnerability Talos addresses is an opportunity lost for attackers. Mitigating possible…

Edge computing is flagged as a key networking technology for 2021 as well as open radio-access framework, both of which are fundamentally driven forward by mobile data carriers and their rush to deploy 5G, according to Deloitte. The Edge Edge computing, including compute workloads being handled on or close to endpoints deployed outside the data center, will be among the biggest technological growth areas in 2021. Deloitte predicts that the global market for edge products…

On December 8-9th, we hosted WebexOne, Cisco’s premier digital collaboration event where our partners and customers came together to explore the power and impact of collaboration.  At Cisco, we are proud of the work the Webex team has done this past year to ensure nearly 600 million users (MAU as of Oct 2020) were able to stay connected and productive; in addition to that, we connected over 1.2 billion phone calls every month for our…

A poem for virtual education heroes of 2020  T’was the last class before Winter Break, and all through educator houses  Computers were shutting down, a rest for keyboards and mouses  We’ve earned a holiday break more than ever, time for lights and for cheer  And time to reflect on what was accomplished this year Educators were warriors, the backbone of support our students needed  Who knew educators could rise to this occasion? No doubt, we did.  Classes looked like never before, lesson plans could not have expected  That soon, Webex would be how…