#DevNet

Evolve. Be Relevant. Get Certified. Why are a bunch of CONEs (Crusty Old Network Engineers) rallying around a certification focused on programming? The short answer is that we, too, must evolve and keep our skills relevant. The new Cisco DevNet certifications announced at Cisco Live US 2019 give us…

Cisco Innovation Hub at SXSW You are in for a treat if you are headed to SXSW this year, as Cisco Webex and our partners descend upon one of the most innovative thought leadership conferences of the year. South by Southwest, (March 14-15) is deemed as the world’s largest gathering of creative techno…

Talent and tools define the limits of success for any network deployment – and those leveraging IoT technologies are no different. The IoT world continues to progress at a rapid pace, and developers and network engineers constantly need to learn new skills to keep up with this pace. The need to auto…

Simplifying IoT security A critical element to the success of any network is ensuring and maintaining security – it’s a need that is applicable to all networks and network devices, including those that power Cisco Internet of Things technologies and solutions. In an effort to simplify cybersecurity…

Business customers in every industry are facing fierce competition from digital born-in-the-cloud disruptors. As their businesses have grown, so has the complexity of their networks. Yet, the network is at the heart of their business, and increasingly so is software, cloud, and IoT, so digital trans…

Only 56 percent of security alerts are investigated, and more than half of those are not remediated, according to the Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report. Responding to these alerts is an overwhelming job, and most organizations do not have the security staff to keep up. Companies of all sizes fa…

Cisco Live Europe opens next week in Barcelona, and as always the DevNet Zone has an awesome agenda of hands-on workshops, speaker sessions, and more ready for attendees. In addition, this year we will have FIVE “DevNet Zone Takeovers” – sessions during which you can focus in on a specific Cisco tec…

Learning never ends, and that’s never been truer for the trusty network engineer. Of late Network Engineers have been moving up the stack, changing the way we deliver network services, becoming programmatic and using new tooling. A not so scientific graph of what network engineers need to be aware o…

It’s a new year and a new decade, so it’s time for a NEW BLOG about network automation. I am getting ready for Cisco Live Europe 2020 and want to give everyone a preview of some of what I’ll be talking about in my session How DevNet Sandbox Built an Automated Data Center Network in…