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With just over two weeks to go before the OpenStack Summit EU, the Cisco team is starting to get very excited about being back at this awesome event. For those of you who have been to an OpenStack Summit before, you know what I’m talking about. This will be my 11th Summit and I’m just as excited for…

The astute among you may recall that just a few months ago – specifically, at the ANGA conference in June – we announced a new Cloud Native Broadband Router, the cnBR, aimed at making the industry’s CCAP deployments radically more feasible and economical. This week, going into the Cable-Tec Expo, I’…

Security is a topic that is a top-of-mind for every CIO out there. It is interesting to know that according to a study performed by Research 451, 64% of enterprises report information security is not a separate line in terms of budget, instead, it is part of their IT infrastructure one. In other wor…

If you are an IT Ops professional responsible for running cloud-native applications built with containerized application services, then you should consider boosting your skills to be ready for changes likely coming your way. Cloud-native refers to an application architecture, not a workload deployme…

Authored by Jared Headley, Senior Director of Cloud Platforms and Services  Twenty-five years ago, the pain in my wrists was unbearable.  I was spending 10-12 hours a day creating presentations about the OSI model and the power of a multiprotocol network (yeah, I’m old).  After visiting a doctor and…

The most difficult thing in any high-tech job is to predict the “tipping point.” Imagine the possibilities if we had the benefit of hindsight. We could all be “IT Historians” with the ability to explain why and how a given technology went through the hype cycle and then eventually took off. But, loo…

According to recent studies like Cisco Global Cloud Index, 94% of all workloads will be processed by Private & Public Cloud Data Centers by 2021, so I guess that adopting the Cloud is not a matter of if, but a matter of when. Once we accept it and understand the benefits, the quest usually begin…

The journey towards the intelligent enterprise  When talking about modern data processing in the digital economy, data is often regarded as the new oil. Enterprise companies are already competing in a race for the best mining, extraction and processing technologies to gain better insights into their…

Change is inevitable and it may be a fortunate consequence of growth. In an era where agility is needed and delivering new and better services faster may be the difference between outpacing our competitors or not, IT is many times perceived as one of the major roadblocks. For example, think about a…