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Written by Alon Bernstein, Distinguished Engineer, Cable Access Business Unit Web-scale giants, like Amazon, Google and Facebook, design their infrastructure, applications and deployments to be cloud native because this is the ideal environment for supporting their core applications, including sear…

UPDATE — September 22, 2017:  I am pleased to announce we have completed the acquisition of Springpath, Inc. today. A hearty welcome to the Springpath team members! Our customers and partners in the data center space are frequently asking for solutions that can help them simplify management operati…

Everyone knows the story by now. We have siloed groups of people working on various parts of our data center infrastructures. There’s a lot of red-tape, a lot of disparate ideas on who should do what and when they should do it. That’s why public cloud is so appealing to people in our organizations w…

Seven years ago, the team behind Unleashing IT started with a question: “What do IT and LoB professionals really need to know to help their organizations succeed?” The answer today is the same as it was then: Less hype. More insight. That’s why we’re committed to bringing you the latest perspectives…

Peter J. Welcher is a Cisco Champion, an elite group of technical experts who are passionate about IT and enjoy sharing their knowledge, expertise, and thoughts across the social web and with Cisco. The program has been running for over four years and has earned two industry awards as an industry be…

In several parts of the world December 6 is a day that especially children look forward to:  It’s St. Nicholas Day and children hope to be on St. Nicholas’ good side to receive a small gift. If you want to read more about the different activities to celebrate St Nicholas Day, you can learn more abou…

They go by names like Blackbeard & Basis-Pro. They’re the best of the best. The top of the SAP cognoscenti food chain. The SAP Mentors, an elite group of gurus from customers, consultants, and SAP. They’re in their element here, prowling #SAPTechEd for the slickest, tastiest new technologies, ju…

The VP of Data Center Operations at a B2B cloud provider cannot guarantee that his enterprise customer’s sensitive records are protected from attacks — even with his arsenal of threat detection and mitigation tools. Amongst rows of opaque racks with thousands of consolidated workloads, h…

Countless new innovations and solutions are launched everyday, and it’s really hard to keep up. How do you cut through the noise and get quality information? One way to do it is by attending Cisco Live, the premier educational event that top industry engineers attend to stay updated with the latest…