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…