Cisco on Cisco

Cisco Live Barcelona’s roaming reporters are done roaming and reporting, for now. After a week filled with plentiful interaction, hard work and fluctuations between chaos and entertainment, the team successfully delivered six full fledged videos and four commercials in a span of four days! Whe…

✅Hotel and Flights. ✅Passport. ✅Laptop bag. ✅Camera charged and ready. That’s it! The Cisco IT Roaming Reporters are ready to descend on the IT Management Program at Cisco Live in Barcelona once again. We’re excited to get back into the thick of the action and meet everyo…

With 12,000 Cisco UCS servers installed in 22 company data centers worldwide, Cisco IT had a big challenge tracking when individual UCS units were due for replacement as part of our infrastructure refresh program. Compounding the problem: Many different server models were installed at different time…

Software localization is often an afterthought instead of being embedded into projects from the start. In 2017, we started a localization project for the software-fulfillment process in our Tokyo office. The regional team had approached us because partners and end customers were having a “broken” us…

If you fell asleep in a ’90s data center and woke up in a modern one, you’d know instantly. But if you dozed off in your office and woke up 25 years later, it’s possible you’d be none the wiser until you confronted the espresso machine. In the ’90s, we added one building a month to our San Jose camp…

If you could change anything about network management, what would it be? Having been both a network project manager and program manager at Cisco, I’ve given this a lot of thought. We already have great tools for zero-touch deployment, software image management, and fabric management. What could be b…

Cisco on Cisco is a key program that collaborates across various groups within Cisco to support Sales by sharing the story of IT with customers, partners, and internal employees. The Cisco IT Internship Program is a special version of the Cisco on Cisco program that nominates employees (mostly exper…

If you looked around my TV room a few years ago, you might commiserate with me about the number of remote controls: TV, cable box, VCR, sound bar, Roku, and our ancient VHS player. Playing back a recorded episode of 24 wasn’t for the faint of heart. As an engineer (can’t help myself), I saw the prob…

With 12,500 Cisco UCS servers, we’re constantly looking for innovative ways to simplify management. We use on-premises Cisco UCS Director and UCS Central servers to manage our blade servers, and Cisco Integrated Management Controller to manage our standalone rack servers. At this point our managemen…