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I’m delighted that Cisco Secure has just confirmed our membership of the Security Advisor Alliance. This will allow us to do great things together, for the benefit of security leaders and also our community, and so I wanted to write this post to talk a little about our joint missions, and how we can help you. About our CISO Advisor team I lead Cisco’s global CISO Advisors team, a group of security leaders dedicated to…

I never thought I would work for Cisco. Even though I had worked for several years in the Bay Area with a background in Networking and Security – Cisco was not on my list because I had bought into some of the stereotypes like Cisco’s red tape or Cisco’s political culture which leaves very little autonomy. All that changed when my recruiter convinced me to give Cisco a shot 5 years ago – it was…

Data-center operators, perhaps stung by accusations that they’re power hogs, are making a major push to be green. Both Microsoft and Google have promised their data centers will be carbon neutral by 2030, while AWS is targeting 2040. I’m sure this is driven by good intentions, even as the cynic in me remembers that every dollar saved in the power bill goes right to the bottom line. So every effort helps, even if some are more…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced several expansions of its managed GreenLake services during its HPE Discover conference this week. GreenLake is HPE’s consumption model for hardware and services. Rather than make an outright purchase, customers determine the configuration they will need and HPE installs it, with a slight overprovisioning just in case. If the customer ends up needing more hardware capacity, it’s just turned on. Until then, it just sits there, unused, and at no charge….

This article was written in collaboration with Paula Silveira Temple, Cisco Communications & Engagement Manager.         Translation: Happy 20th birthday to Conexión, our Employee Resources Organization (ERO) for Latinx employees. Spanish for “connection,” Conexión has become one of our most recognized EROs. What began in 2001 as a simple mailer from a few Hispanic engineers to connect Latino employees around the world has turned into an organization of more than 1,500 members….

One of the things that used to keep me up at night is that troubleshooting a data center network typically involved multiple disparate teams, each having a different view of the network, user interface, and the applications it supports. Historically, it took probing the network manually with complex questions and use the answers derived from custom scripting, spreadsheets, and CLIs for troubleshooting and remediation. And with scaling into the multi-cloud in modern data center fabrics,…

Cisco SD-WAN unlocks new possibilities with our network infrastructure, the new architecture is replacing the long-established role of the wide-area network (WAN), connecting our users at the branch office location to applications hosted on servers in the datacenters.   Often VPN (Virtual Private Network) tunnels or Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) were implemented for segregation of data and security. This approached worked well for years, but as our customer moved into a mobile digital application world and their data move to the cloud, a…

To operate at the speed of business today, network automation, integrated security, and AI-power insights are needed. At Cisco, we are transforming customer networks with intent-based networking. Like most journeys, the journey to intent-based networking can be different for every networking team. In my regular interactions with IT practitioners, I hear that networking projects are often planned and prioritized on the basis of short-term demands. I understand why this is the case, but I think…

Show More (6 items) When I started cord-cutting, only hardcore techies and television fans were doing it. It was really difficult to do. Today, there are more people watching streaming shows than there are paying for cable or satellite TV and anyone can do it with any high-quality streaming device and a decent broadband connection.  There are three reasons for this shift. First, the best live TV streaming services now offer pretty much anything you’d…

Service Providers and enterprises can now include Multi-Gigabit 5G wireless as an SD-WAN transport with Cisco’s new Catalyst Cellular Gateways. Go beyond Gigabit connectivity with mGig cellular edge routing that is fully manageable in Cisco SD-WAN vManage. Easily connect your gateway via Power over Ethernet (PoE). You can also bolster your SASE solution with Multi-Gigabit 5G for faster and more flexible cloud security. What Makes 5G for Cisco SD-WAN Unique In order to take advantage…