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It’s November in the Northern Rockies and the snow has begun to fall. Skiers all over the world are getting excited for the forthcoming dumps of powder. Gear is getting dusted off and tuned while ski mountains are grappling with their own variant of business resilience: ways to keep their mountains open and their pass holders safe amid the pandemic. This permeates their entire business, as it’s not just the ski hills, but the lodges,…

After you’ve worked in technology for a while, you discover that all those jokes about buzzword bingo are based on reality. For those of us who work with words, translation of tech jargon into plain English is something we deal with almost every day. One of my least favorite buzzwords is future-proof. Fortunately, the Cisco branding folks don’t like it either, and according to the style guide, we’re not supposed to use it. Instead we…

The ps command is key to understanding what’s running on your Linux system and the resources that each process is using. It’s useful to know how to display the information that ps provides in whatever way helps you focus on the problem you’re trying to resolve. One aspect of this is being able to sort the output of the ps aux command by any column to highlight particular information, such as how much memory processes are…

It’s Monday morning. You’ve scheduled a call with key teams to prepare for a busy week. From around the world, your team joins one by one. Well, they try to anyway. Some can’t find the invitation link. Or can’t get the tool to launch. Others don’t receive a calendar notification. Several find that their mobile device can’t connect; a few join without audio or video. One person tries to join on the wrong platform and…

After its purchase of cloud storage automation specialist Spot for $450 million this past June, NetApp is releasing its first new product under the brand. Called Spot Storage, it’s a “storageless” solution that’s designed to enable automated administration of cloud-native, container-based applications. NetApp describes Spot Storage as a cloud-based, serverless offering for application-driven architectures that run microservices-based applications in Kubernetes containers. “Serverless computing” is a bit of a misnomer. Your application and data still reside…

Back in 2008, Domain Name System (DNS) server cache poisoning was a big deal. By redirecting the results from DNS with misleading Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, hackers could redirect your web browser from the safe site you wanted to a fake one loaded with malware. Fixes were discovered and DNS cache poisoning attacks became rare. Now, thanks to a discovery by the University of California at Riverside researchers, a new way has been found to…

Co-authored by Jeremy Witikko, Cisco and Phillip Priestley, NTT Ltd. When your organization is the world’s leading building standards organization, it’s important to lead by example. So when ASHRAE, a global society advancing human well-being through sustainable technology for the built environment, set out to move its Atlanta headquarters to a new location, it decided that building would serve as one of the most secure, innovative, and sustainable workspaces to date. Like buying a home,…

I’ve written extensively about the performance and economic advantages of Cisco UCS servers. Just last year they claimed seven new world-record benchmarks, showcasing ongoing innovation in online analytic processing, Java enterprise middleware, and raw CPU performance. But benchmark tests are conducted in a lab under carefully controlled conditions. What truly matters is how well the servers perform in the real world and how capable they are in supporting multifaceted – and continually changing – business…

We recently announced the launch of our fifth annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, with prize money totaling $1 million USD. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is a competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage technology entrepreneurs solving the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems. Atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory Increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere trap heat, drive up global temperatures, and impact the Earth’s ecosystem. Despite several…

Applications can be thought of as living and evolving pieces of your organization. They are unique, constantly changing and running everywhere. From the time they are written by developers, to being tested, deployed and finally hitting runtime, the application journey leaves room for increased attack surface. Let’s explore how you can you keep yourself at lockstep with securing apps with these three must-dos: 1. Secure the workloads that apps run on Protecting workloads is the…