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Digitization and the Inevitability of the IT Evolution
Have you realized that companies’ transformation towards Digitization ironically drive easier consumption models while technology behind it gets often more complicated? When I get a chance to sit on a table to discuss Digitization strategies, it is interesting how most of the times great ideas come…
Hide the Complexity of Building/Deploying your Applications on Kubernetes – DevOps Series, Part 9
“Draft” is a useful tool that enables developers to easily build applications and run them in Kubernetes (k8s). It helps you by hiding the complexity of building images, publishing them, and creating the deployments. That way you can focus on what is really important… your code. Wi…
Insights from Customer Zero: Enabling the Next Generation of Hybrid Cloud
Cisco’s own IT organization is one of our best customers for Cisco technologies, often acting as Customer Zero when new innovations are being rolled out. I recently chatted with Mike Duarte from Cisco IT to talk about the experience of being a participant in the early access program (EAP) for the Ci…
Cisco Live Preview: Serverless-on-the-Edge Driven Robot Arms
Cisco Live in Orlando next week will be an exciting time that will include new product announcements, but as a preview, I wanted to share a demo I’ve been working on with my friends in Enterprise Networking that involves the intersection of serverless and edge computing: We’re looking fo…
Solving Security and Compliance Problems with Cisco Business Critical Services
Organizations today need to be both nimble and secure. They’re adopting Cloud, IoT, and machine learning at increasingly quickening speed as well as evolving their applications and endpoints as well as campus, data center, and WAN networking to adapt to their digital business as well as address secu…
Cisco Demonstrates the Magic of Hyperconverged Infrastructure for SAP
SAP Sapphire in June in Orlando can be a magical experience…a hot, humid, magical experience. This year Cisco is showcasing a number of new SAP solutions. Our Sapphire magic starts with a big reveal: Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for SAP. Cisco has emerged as the experience leader fo…
Fast and Furious (and Easy) Kubernetes Deployments – DevOps Series, Part 7
Find previous blogs in Julio’s DevOps series. Moving forward in our DevOps series, I would like to explore with you some specific tools and processes that help with automation for your software. If you are involved in the lifecycle of an application I am pretty sure you will be interested in a…
Cisco Open Source Update
This year’s Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference is just around the corner and Cisco will be there. Many may know Cisco as a networking company. And, more recently as provider of the popular UCS and HyperFlex compute platforms. But over the past several years software, services, and security h…
Delivering On the Open Hybrid Cloud Promise with Kubernetes
When it comes to multicloud, containers are one of the most compelling technologies to emerge over the past few years. Containers offer new potential by making it possible for applications to start faster and use less memory, provide a consistent development environment, and run anywhere. However, c…