Cisco SDN

February 11, 2020

NETWORKING

SDN is Growing Up – It’s called IBN

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,…

November 14, 2019

PARTNER

In the time it takes for you to read this, one more person is diagnosed

‘Running makes me feel happy’ Like Max, that’s all I concerned myself with when I was his age. Just doing anything that put a smile on my face. As ‘responsible’ adults, we can be guilty of finding less time to do the things we enjoy. Not Max. He runs, he plays and does what is expected of a boy his…

April 2, 2019

DEVELOPER

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love SD-WAN

In the past… Unless you have lived under a rock for the past 10 years, you know that these days everything is software defined. Networking is software defined, data center is software defined, you name it, is software defined. Makes sense of course. Networks have become so vast, so central to…

January 15, 2019

DEVELOPER

What’s Next for Software Defined Networks?

Go to any trade show or technology event and you will see Software Defined {insert name here} everywhere.  Each vendor promising the panacea of ease of use, cost savings, and being ready for the future of IoT and beyond.  Moving the management duties off individual boxes into a centralized system do…

April 12, 2018

DATA CENTER

ACI loves KVM and Red Hat Virtualization

Cisco ACI has provided integration with KVM in OpenStack environments quite for some time now. OpenStack is a great technology to implement Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) with uses cases for Private, Public and Telco clouds. But indeed Openstack provides a cloud platform, tailored to “cattle-typ…

January 12, 2018

DATA CENTER

Demos: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) 2017-2018 Updates

Bookmark this blog! Future videos will be added.  Cisco ACI helps customers manage and excel in complex environments by increasing operational efficiencies, delivering network automation, and improving security for any combination of on-premises data centers, private, and public clouds. With ACI, cu…

June 27, 2017

NETWORKING

Access in the Era of Intent-based Networking

Intuition. It is one of the key traits that makes us human. What if we could make the network intuitive in translating intent into network configuration? Could a network learn to defend itself against malware and threats? In a digital world, enterprises networks are under the onslaught of a myriad o…

June 15, 2017

GOVERNMENT

Moving From CLI to Automation? You Have Choices.

Software Defined Networking (SDN), and the dizzying number of different ways IT organizations define it, continues to be a moving target. However, whatever the definition of SDN is this month, it is clear from talking to customers and seeing how the large web and cloud providers are transforming the…

March 22, 2017

DATA CENTER

Network Automation Fuels Scientific Innovation and Discovery

Written with Mara Fowler, Cisco Customer Stories Over the past several centuries, significant scientific discoveries have fueled the rise of modern medicine.  Researchers like Pasteur, Fleming, and Salk identified groundbreaking medical treatments that saved untold numbers of lives.  During this tim…