Networking

Our very first Networking.Next event was a huge success, and we appreciate the questions and feedback we’ve gotten from our attendees. During the event, we heard from analyst Will Townsend, futurist Radha Mistry, and Cisco experts on what to expect in networking technology, operations, and talent. S…

Sometimes technical innovations strike like lightning. In a flash, shiny new tech arrives and is instantly put in the hands of millions of people. Other times innovations seem like the ocean tide. You can see the slow change coming as the waters incrementally rise, but you’re never quite sure at wha…

Look up. If you’re in an office, there’s almost certainly a wireless access point on a ceiling very near you. But what is that access point doing, other than connecting you? Is your network using that access point to your business’ best advantage? Wireless access points can do much more than just co…

Some partners resell Cisco products. Some go beyond selling and offer services. And some of them believe in the products so much, they use them internally. Such is the case with Katalyst, a certified Cisco Gold Partner and managed service provider; they do all three. I recently had a chance to speak…

The first blog in this series highlighted the benefits of Cisco DNA software subscriptions, and marrying your hardware network to software consumption models. For this second post in the series, we’ll concentrate on one of those consumption models: Cisco’s Enterprise Agreement (EA), and introduce so…

Contributor:  Mike Ketabforoosh SD-WAN is a must-have for IT teams around the world. In fact, Cisco expects that 95% of its customers will implement SD-WAN within two years. The demand is incredible. One of the most impressive capabilities in SD-WAN is Zero-Touch Provisioning or “ZTP.” With its abil…

Whether you’re the CIO of a Fortune 500 company, or you’re managing the still-complex network strategy of a smaller company, you need to know what to prepare for—what are the trends in networking you can’t ignore? I am delighted to speak at next week’s Gartner IT Symposium/XPO in Orlando, where I wi…

On October 16, the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) will return to New York City for its Fall 2019 Conference & Expo, and Cisco will be there to showcase its latest networking and security advancements to the community. We’ve said it before: networking and security must converge to meet the nee…

Securing enterprise data and business applications is undoubtedly at the forefront of every IT professional’s mind. However, efforts to secure data and applications competes with the priority to open up resources for a distributed workforce by moving applications and data to multiple cloud and SaaS…