#DevNet

Background The rise of the API economy has transformed how we use technology in the enterprise, but while technology has advanced, methods of doing business over the internet have not kept pace. Businesses today need to increasingly manage data & transactions among a large number of untrusted pa…

Back in January 2018 I wrote a blog post about the inroads I was making in discovering what the network intuitive is, and setting up Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Center and Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) for Cisco Live Europe in Barcelona. I also promised I’d come back with an…

This is part 5 in Julio Gomez’s series of blogs on DevOps.  Find previous blogs in Julio’s DevOps series here. Using public Cloud providers services (like GCP, AWS or Azure) is a nice option for multiple scenarios. Let’s say you do not have any on-premises infrastructure and would…

Last month, at the second annual DevNet Create conference, we started a new tradition with the first ever DevNet Creator Awards.  We wanted to recognize members of the DevNet community who have made significant contributions to community growth and member success in the past year.  (If you could not…

With the ever increasing demands of today’s IT environments, the complexity of security and incident management can easily get out of hand. Security, like every other area of innovation, needs to be smart, automated, and pro-active in order to meet the demands of the business and defend agains…

DevNet is now on Mars! OK, not really. But DevNet is now in the Mars Network Challenge game. Have you tried it? It’s great! What got me interested was a discussion we were having around the NetDevOps trend and I jokingly inquired with the Mars Network Challenge team, “so what happens when there is a…

Deep in the underbelly of Cisco a crackpot group of engineers, scientists and food preparation experts gathered to work on a project only known as the symbol, ‘!’. It was so classified that it didn’t even have a name. Meetings were created. Multiple teams were brought together. The…

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…

Wow. Where to begin? The DevNet Create Conference (second annual) took place April 10-11, and there was so much for attendees to do, learn, and experience. If you read my blog from last month, you know that DevNet Create is a two day conference focused on topics and technologies of interest to appli…