Some people are perfectly happy buying and eating pre-made microwaveable meals. These meals are rarely amazing. They're never innovative. But they're quick, perfectly consistent, and they get the job done. The only flexibility on...
Last week, I was acknowledged by the Alum Rock Counseling Center for my personal commitment to mentoring at-risk students. As I prepared my thank you remarks, I was reminded how much I value youth mentoring nonprofits su...
Since Cisco UCS Mini launched last September, Cisco and our partners (Citrix, EMC, Microsoft, NetApp, Nimble Storage, Oracle, SAP, and VMware) have been hard at work putting together a wide variety of solutions. On the way to trad...
Organizations are under relentless attack, and security breaches happen every day. A global community of attackers creates advanced malware and launches it via multi-faceted attacks and through multiple attack vectors into organiz...
Last week, I shared with you how to set up WAN networking with Cisco Prime Infrastructure. Today, as the second blog of my 5-part blog series, I'm going to discuss with you how to connect your branch site users to the LAN and...
Last week, I attended a very interesting meeting in San Francisco for a program we call CHILL -Cisco Hyper Innovation Living Labs. The session, facilitated by the Factory, an incubator backed by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, inclu...
Many enterprises today want to build a private cloud to gain efficiencies such as on-demand service delivery and pay-as-you-go use of IT infrastructure services, all while maintaining control, accountability, and data sovereignty....
This post was authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Kevin Brooks Overview The use of macro enabled word documents has exploded over the last year, a primary example payload being Dridex. Last week, Talos researcher...
The debate of what we should be learning seems to be a more frequent topic today. For instance, there's been a long-standing question for each new networker: after learning a little about routing and switching, does a relative new...
Most of you who've either purchased or delivered cloud services have been asked for an SLA (Service Level Agreement). I've seen SLAs that can be measured on inches of paper. Why so big? Just consider getting 10 people in a ...
I recently wrote in my blog about a partner, WWT, that quickly developed a network replication solution across dual DC using the programming interface on the APIC. Our own development team, just published a complete manageme...
Who doesn't enjoy a vacation? And not just one day, but -four! What if there were a cloud service that saved you so much time, you could actually send all of London's working population on a 4-day vacation? Well, that's exactly wh...