The Cisco UCS X-Series begins with the Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis. Our engineering teams rethought everything: modularity, size, power, cooling, and fabrics. The result is a great infrastructure choice to base your hybrid cloud computing platform for the next decade.   Modularity Modularity is key to flexibility and future proofing. Since the chassis has no midplane or fixed connections, every component can be replaced without requiring a forklift upgrade. The chassis can be upgraded by…

The adoption of new Catalyst 9800 not only brought new ways to configure Wireless Controllers, but also several new mechanisms to troubleshoot them. It has some awesome troubleshooting features that will help to identify root causes faster spending less time and effort. There are several new key troubleshooting differentiators compared to previous WLC models: Trace-on-failure: Summary of detected failures Always-on-tracing: Events continuously stored without having to enable debugging Radioactive-traces: More detailed debugging logs filtered per…

Juniper Networks is embracing an open campus-fabric management technology supported by other major networking vendors and at the same time making it simpler to use by removing much of the manual work it can require. The company is adding Ethernet VPN-Virtual Extensible XLAN (EVPN-VXLAN)  support to its Mist AI cloud-based management platform let customers streamline network operations. EVPN-VXLAN separates the underlying physical network from the virtual overlay network offering integrated Layer 2/Layer 3 connectivity as…

An astounding amount of information is becoming available now due to new monitoring methods that provide extraordinary visibility that will improve operations at no additional cost. Detection and forecasting the impact of undersea seismic events has been an area of research for many years. Early detection of such events has tremendous implications in minimizing loss of life and property. The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis1 (DART) system…

Did you know that walking 10,000 steps a day for better fitness and health is not a real thing? Yeah, I didn’t either, until now. It turns out that in the 1960s, a Japanese company thought it sounded good as an advertising campaign to sell their pedometer, which was the first commercial pedometer. The advertisement worked and they sold many pedometers while also kicking off a myth that persists to this day around the world….