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June is one of my favorite months of the year because the beginning of summer is also the time for our largest conference of the year – Cisco Live! This year, Cisco’s annual conference of innovation was on full display in sunny Orlando, Florida. Cisco Live is our best opportunity in the year to enga…

Background I have written a number of blogs on Network Plug and Play (PnP) on APIC-EM and wanted to provide an update of the new improved PnP in Cisco DNA Center. This new series covers the changes and enhancements made to PnP on Cisco DNA Center 1.2.   The PnP application was not officially exposed…

  Contributing author: Matthias Falkner, Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer    Previous blogs in this series have gone “under-the-hood” of intent-based networking and explored how software-defined networking (SDN) is a foundational element of an intent-based network. In this blog,…

Going to a foreign city for a conference can be an exhilarating experience, but it can also be a bit frustrating when it comes to your wireless network. Does your home carrier work in the conference city? How easy is it to go from one public network to another? What’s the security like? How is…

What’s Really Out There in IoT Cyberspace? Do you know what is connected to your network right now? If you don’t, your network is vulnerable to attacks you might never see coming. You can’t protect what you don’t know exists. You’re in good company if you’re mistaken about what’s connecting to…

Cisco Live was a whirlwind of a week. We had a lot planned in the World of Solutions and for our healthcare session on measuring your hospital’s infrastructure capabilities. But those weren’t the only healthcare highlights this year. The keynote kicked off with an impactful healthcare story. Childr…

As intent-based networking enters the industry, do you and your team feel ready to take on the analytics and automation opportunities that come with it? If not, you have plenty of company. According to Gartner, by 2020, only 30% of organizations will be ready to fully realize the benefits of investm…

My mother is 82 years old and she occasionally suffers from incredible back pain, leaving her in the hospital. and it is sad that she spends a lot of her time at hospitals. Often when I take her to the hospital, the visits are long and stressful. I can testify that it is challenging for hospitals, d…

525,600 minutes.  An iconic Broadway anthem immortalized this number as the total number of minutes in a year.  At Cisco, we have spent many of these last 525,600 minutes developing, innovating and working together with customers and partners to help advance their Intent-based networking journeys. …