Cisco DevNet

November 2, 2017

DEVELOPER

Developer Community at Cisco Live Latin America

The time has come again for the biggest Technology conference in Latin America: #CiscoLiveLA.  This will be my third year making the trip to Cancun.  Previously, I spread the word and highlighted the real-life scenarios and wins made possible by the #dCloud team.  This year, I am representing #DevNe…

August 22, 2017

DEVELOPER

How a Traditional Network Engineer Got Started with Network Programmability

When I was asked to write my experiences preparing to present in the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live 2017, the first thought that came to mind was, “The greatest trick I ever played was convincing the room I was an expert.”  Now I may be taking some artistic liberties with Kevin Spacey’s monologue from th…

August 16, 2017

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

#CiscoChat – Six Female #CiscoSE Pay it Forward

If you look around, there is a strong push for female recruitment and retention within technology companies. The problem that remains is having a large enough pool of seasoned women for these companies to do their recruiting and retention. Companies are starting to do their part, now we established…

May 18, 2017

CLOUD

The Force is Strong With the Bold New Tech Buyer

The recent CNCF CloudNative 2017 conference in Berlin played host to the crème de la crème of IT, niche container-focused software vendors, and integrators. All of them came equipped with their most switched-on engineers and marketers (intentionally leaving the usual marketing glaze behind). I was t…

Developers, Meet DevNet Create

You’ve heard us talk about it for months! #DevNetCreate: Cisco’s first developer conference, where applications meet… Applications have met a variety of challenges and ideas. We’ve collected our favorites here: blog.devnetcreate.io   Now, we invite YOU to join the conve…

March 28, 2017

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

#CiscoChat Recap: Have APIs Killed the CLI?

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…

March 27, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Spelunking. Exploring Cisco’s Splunk Community and Other News Bits

  Splunk is one of our key Cisco UCS ISV Partners in the area of data and analytics for the Data Center.  Big Data as we all know throws off tons of structured and unstructured data and the ability to discover its meaning and therefore value requires good analytics capabilities. This is where S…

March 24, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud Buyers and the Org Charts They Live In

Cloud products have a very different kind of buyer than traditional hardware gear.  Sure, there’s some overlap between these two constituents but for Cisco, who has long been a trusted supplier of the IT organization we have a new group of people we’re getting to know: Developers in line of business…

March 16, 2017

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Cisco Chat: Have APIs killed the CLI?

Have you heard of Cisco DEVNET?  We are the single resource for everything ‘developer’ at Cisco, and we are here to help you learn, code, inspire and connect. One of our favorite partnerships is with the Systems Engineering organization, #CiscoSE.  Together, we are hosting a #CiscoChat t…