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With the ever increasing demands of today’s IT environments, the complexity of security and incident management can easily get out of hand. Security, like every other area of innovation, needs to be smart, automated, and pro-active in order to meet the demands of the business and defend agains…

DevNet is now on Mars! OK, not really. But DevNet is now in the Mars Network Challenge game. Have you tried it? It’s great! What got me interested was a discussion we were having around the NetDevOps trend and I jokingly inquired with the Mars Network Challenge team, “so what happens when there is a…

Deep in the underbelly of Cisco a crackpot group of engineers, scientists and food preparation experts gathered to work on a project only known as the symbol, ‘!’. It was so classified that it didn’t even have a name. Meetings were created. Multiple teams were brought together. The…

Now that you are familiar with how Developers work in their local environments (see previous blog), it is time to explore their peer Operations teams. Once developers feel comfortable with code running in their laptops, Ops needs to start thinking about how it will go into production. That productio…

Wow. Where to begin? The DevNet Create Conference (second annual) took place April 10-11, and there was so much for attendees to do, learn, and experience. If you read my blog from last month, you know that DevNet Create is a two day conference focused on topics and technologies of interest to appli…

The ushering in of the app era has resulted in an increased focus on User Experience (UX) in practically every product, including those, like (say) networking products, that were traditionally considered as too technical to be simplified.  The “Consumerisation” of IT has led users, who a…

We all know how painful it is to enter the same text in to the CLI, to program the same network VLANs, over, and over, and over and over, and over…. We also know a better way that exists, with network programmability, but this solution could be a few years out before your company adopts the newest n…

Be a Data Superhero We all know the journey that Alice took down the rabbit hole. In her Wonderland, inanimate things came alive and spoke to Alice, guiding her journey. It is real now, there are things that talk to us today, give us notifications, and guide our way to a safe exit during a fire emer…

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…