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Let’s Connect What’s the hardest part about meeting someone new or going to another country or just interacting with something you are unfamiliar with? Typically, it’s how to start the interaction, how do you connect, stay connected, and reconnect. Sometimes the relationship or the place just…

In no more than two years, ChatBots have raised from a techie’s gadget to strong interest from all industries, due to their unique ability to smoothly engage with end-users via messaging. More recently, bots have also found their way inside the corporate walls –  making enterprise workers more…

Guest blog by: Jacob McGill Network Automation Engineer Network to Code Ansible has quickly become a popular platform for network engineers to get started with network automation and eliminate repetitive day to day tasks. There have been Ansible plug-ins (in the form of modules) for Cisco IOS, NX-OS…

Guest blog by: Ajay Chenempara Senior Network Automation Engineer Network to Code If you were to tell your cloud or server admin friends that in this day and age you have to manually configure every switch as you un-box and deploy them, you’ll probably get expressions that range from sympathy…

Digitizing a country is not an easy task. However, Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, wants to make this real for his country to bridge the digital divide and drive growth in the country. The Smart India Hackathon 2018 is a unique initiative in its second year.  Its goal is to ignite the c…

A partner in education This week at Cisco headquarters in San Jose, California, we’ve had the pleasure of welcoming the winners of the eighth edition of the SENASoft competition. SENASoft is organized by the National Training Service (Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje – SENA) which is a nationa…

Looking for that special gift for the application developer or network programmer among your friends or family? Or for yourself? Sometimes, we get stumped looking for gifts and are very thankful for the great gift guides that spring up this time of year. Well look no further, here again for the seco…

Jim Grubb talks to Jeff McLoughlin, Principal TME, Cisco Enterprise Switching & Wireless, about the value adds of SDA (efficiency, automation, scalability, security) and what they mean for network operations now and in the future. Guest Star In the pilot episode of The Grubb Cast I introduced my…

The first ever IETF Hackathon was held March 21-22, the weekend before IETF 92 in Dallas, TX. It was a late addition to the conference schedule, answering the call to action from Engineering CTO and Chief Architect Dave Ward’s talk at IETF 91, Open Standards, Open Source, Open Loop. Cisco DevNet tea…