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The traditional development of applications is giving way to a new era of modern application development. Modern apps are on a steep rise. Increasingly, the application experience is the new customer experience. Faster innovation velocity is needed to deliver on constantly changing customer requirements. The cloud native approach to modern application development can effectively address these needs: Connect, manage and observe across all physical, virtual, and cloud native API assets Secure and develop using distributed…

At a time when production from anywhere is a must, those that create, distribute, and secure content needed to pivot overnight, adopting new tech and workflows. Back in the old days, the studio was the central repository for this content, but now that it needs to be securely shared online with teammates around the world who are working from their home offices, the challenges continue to mount. Now more than ever, high availability is needed…

In all industries, there are inflection points where suddenly, things accelerate. Right now, that is happening in the sports and entertainment industry. The next few years there will be significant transformation across distribution and consumption. Incredible change is going to occur with converged networks, wireless, IP-fabric, sensors, AI and much more, which are going to deliver speed, reliability, and opportunity like never before. The Cisco Sports & Entertainment Solutions Group has been evaluating these dynamic…

The phone in your hand, the network it runs on, the public transportation app you’re using to commute… It’s likely that each of them contains a touch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make your experience more efficient, seamless, secure, and personalized. At Cisco, we develop innovative services that advance healthcare, enhance education, provide remote working, improve government services to citizens, expand accessibility, and strengthen cybersecurity. We deliver technological advances that help us go beyond what…

What a year 2020 turned out to be! This year’s Cisco Live was about more than just IT. It was about people coming together to affect change. A large part of that change centered around remote work, with research showing that, by 2025, 36.2 million Americans (22% of the workforce) will work remotely.1 The rapid and sudden shift last year to remote work around the world brought with it a range of new business and IT challenges to enable secure remote collaboration and accelerated digital transformation….

New features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are tuned to provide better remote support for edge networking where processor- and memory-constrained devices can present management problems. RHEL 8.4 announced this week at Red Hat Summit has new capability to send lighter-weight universal base images and is designed for potentially less capable edge devices, letting Red Hat customers deploy edge applications more flexibly. In addition to the new RHEL version, Red Hat announced updates to…

Big Blue kept its checkbook open this week buying AI-based application and network-performance management vendor Turbonomic for an unconfirmed estimate of $2 billion. The acquisition is the eleventh hybrid-cloud and AI-focused buy since Arvind Krishna became IBM CEO in 2020. “Hybrid cloud and AI are the two dominant forces driving change for our clients and must have the maniacal focus of the entire company,” he said at that time. The Economic Times and Reuters said…

20 years ago, I used to work as a network engineer for a fast-growing company that had multiple data centers and many remote offices, and I remember all the work required to simply onboard a remote site. Basically, it took months of planning and execution which included ordering circuits, getting connectivity up and spending hours, and sometimes days, deploying complex configurations to secure the connectivity by establishing encrypted tunnels and steering the right traffic across…

20 years ago, I used to work as a network engineer for a fast-growing company that had multiple data centers and many remote offices, and I remember all the work required to simply onboard a remote site. Basically, it took months of planning and execution which included ordering circuits, getting connectivity up and spending hours, and sometimes days, deploying complex configurations to secure the connectivity by establishing encrypted tunnels and steering the right traffic across…

Episode 3 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. And check out Ray’s video on 400G migration. Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 3 How did we go from 1G to 400G? The history of pluggable optics, a conversation with Ray Nering, part 3 of 4. Have you ever wondered why pluggable optics exist? Have you ever wondered what acronyms like QSFP, LR4, FEC, and PAM4 actually mean? In this episode…