First off, CBRS is an acronym for Citizens Broadband Radio Service, and the upshot for IT pros is that it’s enabling enterprises to build their own private 4G/5G networks and result in improved 4G/5G offerings from service providers. Here’s a primer on CBRS—because you are going to want to know about this. CB, as in CB radio? No, good buddy, this has nothing to do with the Citizens’ Band radio service used by truckers for…

IBM continues to fine-tune its mainframe to keep it attractive to enterprise users interested in keeping the Big Iron in their cloud and AI-application development plans. The company released a new version of the mainframe operating system—z/OS V2.5—that includes beefed-up support for containers, AI, and security. According to IBM, applications are at the heart of transactional and batch workloads running on z/OS. Fundamentally, developing new applications while modernizing existing applications is part of the digital…

Xilinx continues to be arguably the most productive chip maker in the Valley with the introduction of the Versal HBM adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP), the latest in its Versal processor portfolio. Xilinx is known as a FPGA company, but the Versal line is so much more than that. Versal is the mashup of many different processor technologies into one die. Of course it has the FPGA programmable logic gates, but it also has Arm…

There is arguably no networking technology surrounded by more hype than software defined WANs (SD-WAN), and much of it is well deserved. A significant number of network professionals either have an SD-WAN deployment underway or on their near-term roadmap. The reason is that SD-WAN architecture is optimized for cloud computing while legacy WANs were designed when client-server computing was the norm. As work-from-home has shifted more apps to the cloud, the adoption of SD-WAN has…

If the past 18 months have taught us anything, it’s that the only constant is change and the future is uncertain. According to McKinsey research, companies report that one month or more of disruptions occur every 3.7 years, resulting in losses worth almost 45 percent of one year’s EBITDA over the course of a decade. Organizations need to be adaptive to this change and attain true business resiliency—the ability to withstand, adjust, and thrive in…

Co-Author Sanjay Hooda, Cisco Distinguished Engineer As the world starts recovering from the COVID pandemic, returning to the workplace poses new challenges for IT. The workforce has come to enjoy the benefits of being mobile, and IT must prepare for a hybrid workspace that delivers an inclusive and immersive experience without compromising access, convenience, or security. Campus networks are at the heart of the modern enterprise, and these networks must be interconnected in a manner that…

SecureX is Cisco’s free, acronym-defying security platform. (“Is it XDR? Is it SOAR? Does it solve the same problems as a SIEM? As a TIP?” “Yes.”) From the very beginning, one of the pillars of SecureX was the ability to consume and operationalize your local security context alongside global threat intelligence. And to that end, SecureX includes, by default, a few very respectable threat intelligence providers: The Cisco Secure Endpoint File Reputation database (formerly AMP…