Adrian Iliesiu

This blog is authored by Ioannis Theodoridis (Yannis for friends and workmates). I am a network and systems engineer specializing in fault, performance, and service level monitoring for the Network and IT services. I work in the Network Department, in the IT Division of the Bank of Greece, as a memb…

In the past… Unless you have lived under a rock for the past 10 years, you know that these days everything is software defined. Networking is software defined, data center is software defined, you name it, is software defined. Makes sense of course. Networks have become so vast, so central to…

Retail Industry My preparations for NRF 2019 gave me insight into the retail industry as a whole and the challenges it faces, along with ideas of how Cisco is addressing these challenges. For a while, the likes of Ebay and then Amazon seemed to disrupt retail at a scale like nothing before. In a wor…

History of WAN circuits I still remember the mid to late 1990s and my first interactions with the Internet. At that time I had my Pentium personal computer for around a year and Windows 95 was all the rage. And while Solitaire and Minesweeper were fun enough, that Broadcom 56kbps modem really opened…

Scaling up to train more partners and customers on Cisco APIs Some of you reading this post might know what a DevNet Express event is, but you probably don’t know the history behind it. Let me give you a bit of background on how DevNet Express events came to be and what they actually are. We f…

Back in January 2018 I wrote a blog post about the inroads I was making in discovering what the network intuitive is, and setting up Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Center and Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) for Cisco Live Europe in Barcelona. I also promised I’d come back with an…

Here we go again folks! We just wrapped-up the second edition of DevNet Create, Cisco’s developer conference. If you are still surprised by Cisco having its own developer conference, you must’ve lived off the grid for the past 4 years. What started in 2014 with DevNet is nicely evolving…

With only a few days before Cisco Live Australia and New Zealand kicks off, and still with a couple of open registration spots available, I want to invite the attendees of this event to sign up for the two workshops I will be running in Melbourne: DEVNET-2101:NXOS in the real world using NX-API REST…

My first Cisco event I still fondly remember my first “Cisco Live” type of event back in 2006. It was not an actual Cisco Live in the way the event is run these days, but a local Cisco event in Romania, called Cisco Expo. Back then Cisco Live was still called Networkers and the smaller s…