The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for digital transformation across every sector. Over the past several months we’ve seen major disruption to many industries and organizations at a pace like never before.  Hospitals, schools, businesses, government, organizations, and communities now depend on the Internet in order to function at the most basic level. Now, more than ever, technology is an essential part of our lives. The “new normal” has become just normal. We have…

Register to attend the live webinar November 17, 9AM PDT. Cisco SecureX is a cross-product, cross-vendor security toolset that combines threat intelligence and defensive and response capabilities from multiple Cisco and third-party security and networking products. SecureX uses the APIs of these products in a coordinated fashion to bring security operations teams unprecedented simplicity, visibility, and efficiency. New updates for SecureX Now you might have noticed, Cisco SecureX has made some great updates recently: New…

Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Alisdair McKeand of CAE Technology Services, a Cisco Gold Partner in London, UK. I’m sharing our conversation as it illustrates the power of Cisco APIs and one of the methodologies – called JumpStart – that we use to assist resellers in developing new platform-enabled software to expand their market reach, implementing a successful go to market plan and building a sales pipeline. Click here to watch Julia’s…

Tags provide an easy way to associate strings that look like hash tags (e.g., #HOME) with commands that you run on the command line. Once a tag is established, you can rerun the associated command without having to retype it. Instead, you simply type the tag. The idea is to use tags that are easy to remember for commands that are complex or bothersome to retype. Unlike setting up an alias, tags are associated with…

When it comes to effectively managing a multicloud environment, there are a ton of network and application metrics that enterprise customers should be watching. Among enterprises, the trend is toward multicloud environments, which can include workloads running on-premises and in public clouds run by multiple cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM/Red Hat, Google Cloud Platform and others. Gartner predicts by 2021, more than 75% of midsize and large organizations will have adopted some…