cloud

May 3, 2018

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Episode 44: Adventures in Application Integration with the Italian Data Center Dream Team

Are you clear on the difference between Cisco’s Tetration and AppDynamics offerings? Yes, they are both extraordinarily powerful monitoring tools. But do you know what they actually monitor? And would you know how to use them together if you needed to? If the answer to any of those questions is “No,…

May 2, 2018

DEVELOPER

Unveiling the Magic Behind On-premises Infrastructure – DevOps Series, Part 4

Now that you are familiar with how Developers work in their local environments (see previous blog), it is time to explore their peer Operations teams. Once developers feel comfortable with code running in their laptops, Ops needs to start thinking about how it will go into production. That productio…

Setting a New Standard for Production-Grade Kubernetes

Some of you may be surprised to learn about Cisco’s involvement in the open source community. In fact, we’ve been working with open source technologies for close to 20 years. We are heavily invested. Our releases of Cisco CloudCenter 4.9 and AppDynamics for Kubernetes today are not only milestones i…

May 1, 2018

CLOUD

CloudCenter 4.9 Now Supports Kubernetes and Azure Stack

The Cisco team is focused on continuing to deliver multicloud solutions to customers, which is why we are proud to announce the release of CloudCenter 4.9. This release comes with several key updates including, but not limited to, native support for Kubernetes and Azure Stack, as well as new feature…

April 29, 2018

CLOUD

Towards #ConsistentAI

Data is already a first-class citizen in many enterprises. Today, data is used to derive insights, influence decisions, automate and optimize operational efficiency. The above can be done by deterministic rules and policies or using Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) wherein patterns…

April 24, 2018

CLOUD

Managing Production-Grade Kubernetes in Production

Kubernetes is a production-grade container orchestration solution that automates management of cloud-native applications. Features that make Kubernetes production-grade include automated rollout and rollback, auto-scaling, and self-healing of containerized applications (among other things). It is ea…

April 20, 2018

CLOUD

The Southern California Linux Expo is Not Just About Linux

Did you know that? I didn’t. I really thought it was just an entire conference dedicated to Linux. Which is fine, but I remember thinking “Wow. A whole lot of really cool open source projects have come along in the wake of Linux. And it’s been sixteen years since they launched this show. Why are the…

April 18, 2018

COLLABORATION

BroadSoft, Now Part of Cisco, Enhances Cloud Calling Portfolio

BroadSoft is delighted to be participating in this year’s Cisco Collaboration Summit as a new member of the Cisco family. I’m personally thrilled to be joining along with other BroadSoft colleagues, including our co-founders Mike Tessler and Scott Hoffpauir. We’re looking forward to meeting with Cis…

April 17, 2018

DEVELOPER

A Day In the Life of a Modern Applications Developer – DevOps Series, Part 3

Welcome back! If you followed my previous posts you are really fluent on Docker and Kubernetes, so now let’s put that knowledge into practice! The Life of a DevOps Team Have you heard about DevOps from multiple sources and still don’t have a clear idea what it really is? Would you like to create a r…