When you move somewhere new, they say you should immerse yourself in the culture. In Colorado, that means scaling mountains. Whether you are grinding up a trail on a mountain bike, strapping on a headlamp at 4:00 a.m. to hike a 14er (a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet), or my personal favorite (yet least accomplished), jumping on belay and wedging yourself inside a crack in Eldorado Canyon and making the…

Amazon Web Services has rolled out a new, more native way to connect SD-WAN infrastructures with AWS resources. Introduced at its re:Invent virtual event, AWS Transit Gateway Connect promises a simpler, faster, and more secure way for customers to tie cloud-based resources back to data centers, remote office workers or other distributed access points as needed. Thirteen networking vendors including Cisco, Aruba, Arista, Alkira, Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Versa announced support for the technology, which…

Author: Joe Weiss. Editor: Nicki Vereschagin   In January of 2020, retailers around the world assembled in New York for NRF to see the latest and greatest in technology solutions to help enhance the guest experience in their retail stores. Most retailers were not aware of how their strategy would need to change and adapt in the coming months as the world changed in the blink of an eye. At Cisco we have seen a massive…

I’ve been a Mozilla‘s Firefox browser fan since it was a beta. Starting in 2004, it was my favorite web browser. That wasn’t just because it was open-source, but because it was so much better and more secure than Internet Explorer. Things have changed. The browser itself is still good, but fewer and fewer people use it. And The Mozilla Foundation appears to be getting in deeper financial trouble In Mozilla’s 2019 annual report, Mozilla…

As the SD-WAN enterprise customers increase their consumption of business-critical applications from cloud or directly as SaaS over the Internet, there is a growing need for on-demand SD-WAN extension to the cloud or SaaS of choice. Cisco has partnered with AWS, to deliver Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp to extend our SD-WAN fabric to AWS workloads. As our customers transition their workloads to AWS, Cisco continues to build on this partnership to accelerate our customer’s SD-WAN…