#CiscoDNA

These days, every customer I meet with is “going digital” And with research showing that mastering digital can result 26% greater profitability who wouldn’t want to? But, if you are evolving to a digital business, you must build on a rock-solid foundation. Otherwise, you’ll simply be playing with a…

Any change is tough. True transformation is even tougher –especially when we are talking about the transformation of your tried and tested networks to a new software-delivered model. Your network not only requires new technologies, but also new skill-sets and operational policies. I can’t imagine ho…

As an organization, providing secure guest and corporate Internet access at the branch can be a major challenge. Not only do you have to protect the enterprise, you also have to protect your customer. Protection is good… but it also needs to be simple to deploy, easy to manage, and integrates seamle…

#CLUS is quickly approaching which means Tech Field Day Extra is just around the corner! Ten influencers will be joining Cisco in our sessions on Wednesday July 13th starting at 9am-2:30pm to discuss several new features and additions. For those of you who haven’t seen Tech Field Day, here is the b…

It’s been a few exciting weeks recently at Cisco. On the heels of Cisco and Apple innovations for iOS 10, came the Tetration Analytics announcement to provide pervasive visibility across everything in your data center in real time. Now, I am ecstatic to continue that momentum with an update to our D…

Co-authored by Jeff Reed, SVP of Cisco Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions Since announcing The Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) in March, it has been generating a great deal of enthusiasm in the networking community. Cisco DNA represents an opportunity for the network to drive digital trans…

The pace of change in business is accelerating so fast, that many IT professionals may not have fully recognized and internalized the enormity of the changes happening in the networking space right now. We’re talking about taking a huge leap forward in the way networks will be designed, deployed and…

A wise man once told me, “There’s no better title than ‘Dad’.” We were talking about career achievements and family, and how to balance the two. I have to hand it to him — he definitely put things into perspective for me. That title carries a lot of responsibility, not only in prov…

Run your own virtual machine directly on a Cisco router. In 2013 we introduced a pretty cool new trick for Cisco routers. The ISR 4000 Series and ASR 1000 Series can host virtual applications directly in IOS XE operating system. Since then the ISR 4000 has supported a range of Cisco applications: st…