As an SMB, you thought there are solutions/options completely out of your range -10 Gigabit, Virtualization, Stacking, 16TB Storage, POE+, Layer 3, etc. If I told you you can get all of the following (an entire future-proofed feat...
In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged, Tim Swanson (@tiswanso) and Nigel Kersten (@nigelkersten) discuss NXOS and Puppet, and the Cisco/Puppet plug-ins created for configuring network switches. What does this mean? Watch a...
In my role as Cisco's Chief Futurist, I get many questions about what the future holds and how new technology and emerging solutions will change our lives. Given the positive feedback and the volume of questions being submitted fr...
There is a plethora of connected devices out there and even more that will bombard us in the coming months and years. I thought I'd put together a sample of the ones I'm interested in and give my two cents on each. Nest Prot...
It's that time of year again-the Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication will go live in seven days. As a reminder, the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) releases bundles of Cisco IOS Software ...
Enabling a Platform for Branch Innovation In an era of content explosion, where IT is challenged by exponential traffic growth due to mobility, video, cloud and Internet of Things -no place is this problem more acute than the bran...
Security plays an important role in the success of mobility implementations worldwide. We assume security threats are always present, however it's not always apparent where threats may arise from. Being aware of these potential ri...
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists, hosted by Cisco's Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week we're talking about UCS Invicta. Listento the Podcast Featured Guests:Cisco Champions: Trevor...
More people than ever are talking about "shadow IT" nowadays. As the name implies, it's mysterious, perhaps even malevolent by some people's standards. From a traditional IT vantage point, this negative view may be som...
We hope you were able to join us and several hundred of your peers, for the 7th Annual Connected Health Summit at HIMSS14. It was a half-day meeting featuring sessions by healthcare thought-leaders who discussed ways to tran...
According to Wikipedia, "mayday" is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications. It derives from the French expression "venezm'aider", meaning "come tohelp me." Mos...
With Interop less than three weeks away, we were doubly excited to learn that Cisco APIC, the controller for our Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric, and the Cisco Nexus 9516 switch have been selected as Best of Intero...