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Is your city “smart?” From automatically dimming street lights, to stopping escalators when not in use, to finding out if your bus is on schedule – it’s fascinating how advances like these can make our lives easier and save money. Most of these changes seem magical to most of…

The IIT RTC Conference and Expo is a collaborative event where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together technical professionals and business executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, policy and reg…

As Meraki continues to drive cloud managed networking into new markets, we continue to evolve our offerings to help customers and partners adopt this mission. With large enterprise, campuses, and service providers all rapidly growing Meraki wireless deployments, Meraki continues to rapidly evolve to…

In recent years, Kubernetes has risen up in popularity, especially with the developer community. And why do developers love Kubernetes? Because it offers incredible potential for speed, consistency, and flexibility for managing containers. But containers are not all sunshine and roses for enterprise…

Earlier blog posts in this Cisco DNA Center series gave an overview of PnP, how to use the API and an introduction to the configuration template editor.  This blog post explores creating templates in velocity.  Velocity is a template programming language, used in Cisco Prime Infrastructure and APIC-…

Keeping your IT infrastructure operational Before I get into data models, I want to take a slight diversion to incorporate some of the feedback that I received from the first blog. It was pointed out that my use of the ios_config module was “naïve.” I contend that it is more accurate to say that my…

  Use this Script to Help Keep Your Bot (and Sensitive Information) Away from Prying Eyes There are times – like when you are first developing it, or when it is handling sensitive information – when you want your bot to be only available AND only respond to folks within your company…

Ansible Contribution and You Ansible is a great tool. While originally built for software provisioning and configuration management Ansible has spread into so many other technologies, for example, networking and compute hardware. Ansible’s Domain Specific Language written in YAML makes it an easy to…

Get your free DevNet account for access to developer resources, learning labs, and sandbox. I am a tremendous fan of J.R.R. Tolkien. His books are, without doubt, among the best epic fantasy novels. His characters, races, and the overall world are vast and abundant. There is a conversation between F…