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If you want to move assets out of your data center but for whatever reason can’t shift to the cloud, a colocation, or “colo” for short, is increasingly a viable option. Colo is where the client buys the compute, storage, and networking equipment but instead of putting it into their own data centers, they put them in the data center of a hosting company. They still own and manage the hardware, but they don’t have…

Major League Baseball is taking network visibility to the next level. “There were no modern network-management systems in place before I came in. It was all artisanally handcrafted configurations,” says Jeremy Schulman, who joined MLB two years ago as principal network-automation software engineer. Legacy systems, including PRTG for SNMP-based monitoring and discrete management tools from network vendors, allowed MLB to collect data from switches and routers, for example, and track metrics such as bandwidth usage….

As we approach Cisco Live Global 2021 (March 30 – April 1), the DevNet Partner community has much to celebrate. So, amp up and bring the noise for this year’s electrifying virtual event. If you’re a Cisco Partner and you’re building out your schedule, I encourage you to plug in “DevNet” into the search function and sign up for all our DevNet-focused sessions available with your free Explorer pass. Browse the catalog of sessions and…

Competition in the retail food space became even fiercer when Amazon bought Whole Foods, catapulting the digital giant into 450 physical locations across the United States. This move put all grocery store chains on notice: Digitally transform or perish. Easier said than done. Digital transformation essentially requires migrating workloads and applications to the cloud. But traditional brick-and-mortar grocers are unlikely to have all the expertise in house to go it alone. And no single vendor,…

With average fixed broadband speeds projected to peak up to 110+ Mbps and the number of devices connected to IP networks ballooning to 29+ billion (more than three times the global population by 2023), Internet growth remains unabated and could even be stronger as the ongoing pandemic makes the internet more critical than ever to our daily lives, defining a new normal for humanity – video conferences replaced physical meetings, virtual “happy hours” with coworkers…

Digital technologies have become prevalent in healthcare after the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009. Though we have seen adoption and meaningful use of technology in at least 96% of the hospitals in the United States, electronic access to health information is stymied. What is Information Blocking? “Information Blocking” means any practice that intentionally interferes, prevents, or materially discourages patients, providers and others from accessing, exchanging…

It’s no secret that manufacturing was one of the hardest hit industries by COVID-19. The mass shuttering of factories tanked businesses, disrupted supply chains, and put millions out of work around the world. The numbers are quite staggering. A report from Interact Analysis noted that nearly $3 trillion of global industrial production would be lost due to the pandemic. Between January and April of 2020, 1.4 million manufacturing jobs were lost in the US alone…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces an investor call focused on the Client Solutions Group (CSG) to be held Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. CT / 3:00 p.m. ET. Sam Burd, CSG president, will cover a wide range of CSG-related topics including CSG strategy and its importance to Dell Technologies’ overall business, the opportunity for client business provided by the “Do from Anywhere” future and an…

Last week I told you about an immersion-cooling firm called LiquidStack being spun off from its parent company, the China-based server vendor Wiwynn. The story mentioned how Microsoft was experimenting with immersion cooling, and now Microsoft has pulled back the curtain on the whole show. It’s been trying out immersion cooling for two years but is now going full throttle, at least at its Quincy, Washington, data center. Situated in the middle of the state,…

Everybody has their own preferred way of absorbing information. Some prefer to read it, some prefer to watch it, and some prefer to listen to it. For those of you in the latter category, we have released the Cisco Optics Podcast. It lives within the Cisco Podcast Network and is available on all major and many not-so-major podcast platforms. Check it out and look for new episodes every two weeks or so. And subscribe! Better…