Most of us have dealt with hardware that stays in service well past its planned end-of-life date or that, for reasons of budget and bureaucracy, doesn’t even make it into service until well into its lifespan. Step one in planning and prioritizing server-hardware upgrades is inventorying and evaluating your existing hardware, which may seem like an appropriate job for an IT intern, it’s also a perfect job for PowerShell. Read system telemetry with PowerShell The…

Physical infrastructure is central to any edge computing strategy. The power and cooling equipment and enclosure support the computing resources that run various applications and enable countless edge use cases. Deploying the right physical infrastructure is critical at the edge given that many deployments are in locations without on-site IT support and where remote monitoring and management are required. Navigating edge infrastructure is made more complicated with the broad and varied definitions of edge. These…

Palo Alto Networks has bolstered its security software to better protect  enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The company rolled out a new version of its core cloud-security package, Prisma 3.0, which includes the ability to code security directly into SaaS applications. The package includes a cloud-access security broker (CASB) to control access to cloud resources. Prisma is a cloud-based security bundle that includes access control, advanced threat protection, user-behavior monitoring, and other services that promise to…

Episode 16 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 16 Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 16. Silicon photonics explained, with Ron Horan. Part 2 of 5. Silicon photonics was a buzzword in the optics research community for years before it finally became a reality. Cisco recognized it as not only a hot technology, but one that would deliver real value. Hence three key acquisitions in this…

Another day, another major internet outage. This time around, Google reported that it had experienced a global issue with its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) networking at 12:53 PM US Eastern time. The result? Many of us have seen 404 errors when trying to get to some of our favorite web pages, such as Spotify, Facebook, and ZDNet. Indeed, according to DownDectector, there appears to be more major sites having problems than not.  According to internet…

This blog is authored by Adrienne Moherek, Cisco Engineering Technical Leader I’ll be delivering a live talk for Girls in Tech on November 17 at 2:00pm CT, and I’m so nervous! I’ve worked hard on it, and it’s personal. So — I really hope you will join me for the session, but also kind hope you won’t. I will be talking about the start of my career as a woman in tech — the good,…