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Modern cloud application development relies on microservice-based architectures that span both public and private clouds, and connect to on-premise applications. But fitting applications and microservices into both environments can feel like forcing a square peg into a round hole. Cloud developers n…

According the Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report, 40 percent of the dynamic networks, endpoints, and cloud infrastructure in enterprises is leading to significant blind spots and lack of real-time awareness for security teams. In addition, 53 percent of organizations host at least half of their…

Cisco’s own IT organization is one of our best customers for Cisco technologies, often acting as Customer Zero when new innovations are being rolled out. I recently chatted with Mike Duarte from Cisco IT to talk about the experience of being a participant in the early access program (EAP) for the Ci…

There is a learning curve associated with scheduling containers in production on Kubernetes. But if your cloud architect or platform engineering team can integrate and configure the set of tools needed for deploying and managing containerized workloads, then Developers, Application Ops, and Cluster…

To better compete in a rapidly evolving marketplace, companies are turning to the cloud and making applications the lifeblood of their business. The pressure to innovate has never been greater. This is one of the biggest IT transformations of our generation. New and emerging technologies are changin…

It’s that time! Cisco Live US is next week in Orlando and among the many exciting events going on during the conference, Tech Field Day will be one of them. For the uninitiated, Tech Field Day brings together IT vendors and technical influencers (bloggers, podcasters, freelance writers, and social m…

Questions about containers? Curious about Kubernetes? We’re not surprised. Though you’ve no doubt heard of them both, you’re probably wondering if they’re actually worth exploring or if they’re hiding behind the hype. Sure, the simplicity and speed offered by containers may have caught the eye of le…

Greetings from Cisco Live Barcelona! It’s great to be here, sharing and showcasing the big things Cisco and our partners are doing to help our customers embrace multicloud. We announced one of those big things earlier today. The Cisco Container Platform is a new Cisco software offer to simplify the…

I’m on my way to Barcelona and I’m more excited than ever to attend another Cisco Live! The reason why I’m so pumped up is twofold. First of all, the economy cabin of my long-haul flight from San Francisco to Munich treated me much better than expected and I almost slept for the entire duration of t…