Game on: Level up your AI knowledge with Cisco U.

Game on: Level up your AI knowledge with Cisco U.

I have been at Cisco many years and seen a few transformational events affect network engineers. After I first joined Cisco in 1998, IP telephony came on the scene and disrupted not only classical circuit-switched communications but those of us in networking as well.   More recently, automation, programmability, and software grabbed everyone’s attention, promising to upend the way we think about, design, and operate networks.  Today, you can’t go 10 feet (3 meters for those…

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Cisco Revolutionizes Networking with Pay-As-You-Go for Equinix Network Edge and Equinix Fabric

Cisco Revolutionizes Networking with Pay-As-You-Go for Equinix Network Edge and Equinix Fabric

Network infrastructure has typically been static and fractured with enterprises dealing with multiple vendors across the globe. With the evolution of software defined networking, Equinix has made it possible to create global network infrastructure through their Network Edge and Fabric offerings, accessible in a matter of minutes at a global scale. The deep partnership between Cisco and Equinix for optimizing middle-mile connectivity with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN allows customers to have a single platform (Cisco Catalyst…

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Ingress security from Cisco Multicloud Defense: Protecting cloud networks and infrastructure against advanced inbound threats

Ingress security from Cisco Multicloud Defense: Protecting cloud networks and infrastructure against advanced inbound threats

Digital transformation and the cloud are driving unprecedented innovation and growth. However, the move to the cloud is expanding threat surfaces out beyond the perimeter – often on endpoints, applications, and cloud services that fall beyond the visibility and control of the organization’s security team. The lack of visibility and control across multiple clouds, regions, and accounts has created a major security gap for organizations looking to continue to innovate and grow through the scale…

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Egress Security: Part of a Holistic, Multidirectional Security Strategy for Today’s Multicloud World

Egress Security: Part of a Holistic, Multidirectional Security Strategy for Today’s Multicloud World

Cloud transformation has given rise to a new era of business innovation and growth. According to Enterprise Strategy Group, more than half of production workloads will be running on public cloud infrastructure within the next two years, positioning cloud computing center-stage as the best practice for solving critical business issues and enabling agility. However, the unforeseen by-product of this evolution is complexity, and complexity is the enemy of security. Decentralized IT infrastructure, expanding threat surfaces,…

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Cisco and Nutanix Team Up in Response to Customer Demand: Another Win for Customer-Centric Innovation

Cisco and Nutanix Team Up in Response to Customer Demand: Another Win for Customer-Centric Innovation

In the ever-evolving landscape of IT, organizations continually seek solutions that simplify complexity, break down silos, and enhance agility. At Cisco, we’re continually tuned into the demands and requirements of our customer base, and it’s this laser focus that has led to our most recent collaborative venture. We are thrilled to announce our new integration with Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing solutions. Listening to You: Our Driving Force Time and time again, our…

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Google Cloud’s Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2024 Include Generative AI-Based Attacks

Google Cloud’s Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2024 Include Generative AI-Based Attacks

A November report from Google Cloud details possible nation-state malware tactics in 2024 and new angles of cyberattacks. What will cybersecurity look like in 2024? Google Cloud’s global Cybersecurity Forecast found that generative AI can help attackers and defenders and urged security personnel to look out for nation-state backed attacks and more. Contributors to the report included several of Google Cloud’s security leaders and security experts from Mandiant Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting, Chronicle Security Operations, Google…

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Introducing Cisco Cloud Protection – Complete Protection, from Ground to Cloud

Introducing Cisco Cloud Protection – Complete Protection, from Ground to Cloud

A few weeks ago, I was speaking with a CISO who said, “Our team is coming to the conclusion right now that we need to hire experts for every cloud – GCP, Azure, AWS – just to maintain our existing security. We don’t have the headcount for that.” This wasn’t the first time I’ve heard this. In fact, it’s become a common theme in my conversations with customers and partners. That’s because today, most organizations…

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Cloud Connectivity: Learn How to Connect the Cloud (The Right Way)

Cloud Connectivity: Learn How to Connect the Cloud (The Right Way)

A few years ago, you could be forgiven for not worrying about cloud computing and cloud providers, especially at the enterprise level. In fact, in your daily life, you might have only known “the cloud” as something that allowed you to binge-watch your favorite streaming series or enabled speedy response times on your mobile apps, whether you’re in Los Angeles, London, Lima, or Lagos. Nowadays–whether you know it or not–your enterprise is probably in the…

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Evolve to Cloud-Enforced Security to Empower Your Anywhere Workforce

Evolve to Cloud-Enforced Security to Empower Your Anywhere Workforce

Part 4 of the six-part series – The 2023 Global Networking Trends Report series The next generation of enterprise architecture has arrived. Organizations are moving away from a complex patchwork of best-of-breed point solutions to a single-vendor strategy for a more consistent, secure networking platform that allows their distributed workforce to access hybrid cloud and multicloud applications more efficiently, reliably, and securely. In recent years, the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) has been favored for its ability…

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