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How Cisco DNA Center Is Improving our IT Operations
What if we could have a system to view and manage everything in the network? Today, we’re answering that question within Cisco IT as we transition our corporate network to Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) and making a parallel transition to Cisco DNA Center to complement our network manageme…
Cisco’s New Intent-Based Networking Platform in Use: An Example
Earlier this week we unveiled an important evolution to our intent-based networking suite: Platform capabilities for DNA Center. It gives Cisco partners and customers a way to program applications that take advantage of their networks’ capabilities – without requiring detailed knowledge of the parti…
Collaboration at #CLUS, Day 2: Innovation and Inspiration
How do you know if you’re getting the most out of CLUS? A simple indicator: If your feet don’t hurt and your step-counting device of choice isn’t smoking, you’re not trying hard enough. And Tuesday in Orlando has drawn to a close. It was another busy day in the wonderful world of networking technolo…
Building the Intent-Based Network with DevNet
Networkers are developers Here’s some news: If you’re building and running a network, you are a developer. Why? Because your network is transforming and getting more capabilities. Your network is a software system that runs software and hardware. Your network is programmable. Your network has APIs.…
Cisco Stealthwatch and Cisco DNA Center bridge the SecOps – NetOps divide
By sheer necessity, there is an increasingly interdependent role between NetOps and SecOps in many enterprises. Cisco has been monitoring three trends: Networks are connecting ever more devices, locations and users. The complexity of managing them is creating openings for new threats. As advanced t…
Finally! An Open Intent-Based Networking Platform Managed Service Providers Can Embrace
Today marks another milestone in the journey to Intent-based Networking. Today is good news for Managed Service Providers! First though, some data points regarding the current state of managed network services. There are fewer than 25% of US businesses using managed LAN/WLAN services from providers.…
The Network is Open for Business: Imagine New Possibilities with Cisco DNA Center’s Open Platform Capabilities
This week, thousands of Cisco customers and partners are meeting in Orlando, Florida – the best location I can think of for sparking the imagination. From Walt Disney World to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, everywhere you go offers a creative, immersive, and often personalized experience. So i…
Intent-Based Networking’s Next Evolution: The DNA Center Platform
For more than 20 years, organizations have been running their networks pretty much the same way. But recently, that way has become increasingly difficult, fragmented, and expensive. Modern networks need to be both more integrated, and yet more flexible. So a year ago, we launched our most ambitious…
Cisco DevNet Hits 500,000 Members, Gaining Critical Mass for the “DevNet Effect”
Back in 2014, we started DevNet, Cisco’s developer program. We knew that software, APIs, and programmability would become core to the network, and we knew that we were going to drive programmability into our products in the years ahead. There was buzz around SDN in the research community, but we kn…
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