automation

We all know the stats. The security workforce shortage is impacting two-thirds of organizations, while the gap — currently at 4 million — continues to grow. Security teams are short-staffed, to the point where a 25% say the inability to keep up with the workload is a root cause of security incidents…

In the market for cloud and digital services, speed kills. There’s just so much competition, so many organizations constantly pushing new solutions to meet changing customer needs. If you can’t get new digital products and features out the door quickly—if you can’t retool on the fly to capture new o…

Recently, there have been some questions circulating about whether software-defined networking (SDN) has been a success and even whether it has a future at all. In fact, if you look at the actual adoption numbers, SDN has been hugely successful in helping enterprise IT teams achieve more simplified,…

Automation is priority 1 NetOps teams consistently tell me they are overwhelmed by the growing complexity of the networks they’re required to manage and struggle to keep pace with rapid release cycles. Automation is the key to making sure that network changes are configured flawlessly and new…

Over the past few years, we have seen the rapid growth and maturity of tools and platforms that enable operations teams and software developers to deliver important outcomes for their businesses.  From the explosive growth of services in the public cloud, to a plethora of open source automation…

Author:  Andy Scholl, Marketing Manager @ Cisco What keeps CIOs up at night? According to CIO Magazine’s annual survey of CIO concerns, everything from security threats, to data protection, to the skills gap to digital transformation are top-of-mind. What’s not on their list? Their networks. The he…

Zero trust and complexity management represent a new basic combination for a closed-loop approach to anomaly detection and mitigation for critical infrastructures. This abstract introduces a set of functional blocks that could enable automation and assurance for secure networks. These blocks are des…

Service Providers (SPs) represent some of the largest enterprises in today’s changing world. Influenced by the fluid macro-economic and geo-political climates in which they operate, they are at the forefront of network transformation in a fiercely competitive, global market. Meeting the expectations…

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…