automation

Recently I had the good fortune to be invited to address a Light Reading BCE audience in Austin, where the theme was the future of big networks. There was plenty of discussion, as you might imagine, about software defined networks/SDNs, network function virtualization (NFV) and artificial intelligen…

Henry Tam is Sr Product Marketing Manager for F5’s Cloud Solutions and BIG-IP application delivery controller (ADC) platforms (hardware and software). Henry is responsible for the outbound marketing and go to market strategy of these solutions. We are publishing this Blog on behalf of Henry. T…

Some of the most challenging issues facing businesses today can be directly related to limitations on the network. It’s time to usher in the next generation. In this special iTalk edition of #CiscoChat, we’ll focus on certain key innovations in networking that enable you to take full advantage of th…

We all know, as a Service Providers you have to operate much faster. You have to adopt much faster and to respond much faster to consumers like us. The good news is, we see many examples of how this can be done. Network operations is picking up speed fast. And as technology matures the momentum is p…

Our last blogs highlighted the success factors for SDN & NFV transformation and the three pathways to Service Provider (SP) transformation. Many of you have responded to the results of the study. While the research was a qualitative look at issues facing SPs as they adopt NFV and SDN, we will fo…

Double Digit Spend with Single-Digit Growth Across North America, cable operators face the same challenge of driving down network complexity and operating costs. The math is simple, how can they continue to spend in the double digits to support bandwidth demands, while only recouping single digit re…

The new release of Cisco UCS Central Software makes it easier for you to manage a wide range of environments at scale, even if the servers are in different corners of the globe. It incorporates significant enhancements to automate and simplify routine tasks, enhance consistency, and reduce risk.…

Cloud Scale Networking software innovations are the outcome of a partnership with some leading innovators to utilize data center ‘DevOps’ principles and techniques to offer new levels of agility, efficiency, and simplicity. Key benefits include: Large-scale automation for provisioning and network c…

What’s an API (Application Program Interface)? What’s a CLI (Command Line Interface)? Are APIs really poised to take over CLIs? On Wednesday, March 22, @CiscoDevNet hosted a lively #CiscoChat to discuss these questions. Developers and engineers from all over the world joined the chat to talk about t…