Scott Harrell

For more than 20 years, organizations have been running their networks pretty much the same way. But recently, that way has become increasingly difficult, fragmented, and expensive. Modern networks need to be both more integrated, and yet more flexible. So a year ago, we launched our most ambitious…

The Internet of Things has changed the game for network professionals. Instead of being responsible for keeping people’s computers and smartphones online and keeping the data on servers secure, on today’s networks, network professionals are becoming responsible for keeping new kinds of devices – and…

Today at Cisco Live Barcelona, we rolled out the next chapter of our strategy to reinvent the network for the digital era. We announced powerful new software innovations for the data center and enterprise focused squarely on assurance, ones that will enable the network to quickly identify the root c…

It’s here. Cisco has solved one of the biggest challenges facing the security industry – and now thousands of Cisco customers can start using this breakthrough new network security technology. Back in June, Cisco announced Encrypted Traffic Analytics – a breakthrough technology that identifies malwa…

2017 has been a year of incredible progress and change for Enterprise Networking at Cisco. We redefined networking this year with the world’s first intent-based networking system. We believe that intent based networking is the future of networking – fundamentally changing how we think about networks…

Today, Cisco completed the acquisition of Viptela, which further accelerates our Network Intuitive vision we launched in June. Viptela provides a world-class, cloud-first SD-WAN solution with advanced routing, segmentation, and security capabilities for interconnecting complex enterprise networks. I…

”Dog years”, the term is usually used to describe the age of a dog.  In the rough formula 1 human year = ~7 “dog years”.  I often feel that technology runs in its own form of dog years.  Every human year that goes by the rate of technology innovation accelerates.  This ever accelerating rate of chan…

Episode 2: Don’t Fly Blind – Network Analytics in Real Time The phrase “flying blind” was first used in World War II when, during nighttime or bad weather, pilots were forced to fly only using the limited instruments they had available. For IT professionals, visibility is a tricky thing.  There is…

Episode 1: Quality of Service Made Simple Quality of Service (QoS) is a critical requirement to an optimal user experience on the network. Having the right priority across voice, video, and data traffic can be the difference between a good and great network. Yet ask any networking professional and…