NetOps

CIOs know that ubiquitous connectivity across domains—campus, branch, cloud, and edge, wired or wireless—is a baseline requirement for building a digital enterprise. But, as CISOs know, as the network fabric spreads to encompass devices and location-agnostic data and compute resources, the need for…

Network automation can be used for many things. The other day Jon Hudson posted a question on Twitter. “Can anyone point me to a Troubleshooting example in an automated network?”.  This was a timely question as I had actually just done that exact thing in the DevNet Sandbox network to he…

Cisco’s Innovation Strategy In this episode of #TheGrubbCast, I set the stage by talking about Cisco’s Five-Way Strategy for innovation – Build, Buy, Partner, Invest, Co-Develop. Build refers to Cisco’s 19,000+ engineers and $6.3B investment in Research & Development – but of course no on…

Cisco Migrates Thousands of Business-Impacting Apps with Higher Accuracy and Confidence, Saving 70% in Staff Time Recently, Forbes Insights published a survey of hundreds of CIOs about their views on the challenges and the opportunities to migrate to a hybrid IT environment. Not surprisingly perhap…

Before Apple came out with the iPhone’s iOS, there was Cisco IOS—the original Internetworking Operating System.  The two operating systems serve different purposes; however, the concept of applications is becoming more of a similarity.  Developments in Cisco IOS XR, a carrier grade train of IOS, beg…

Change is tough. True transformation is even tougher –especially when we are talking about the transformation of your tried and tested networks to a new software-defined model with Cisco’s Digital Network Architecture (DNA). And to take full advantage of these emerging network technologies, you will…

These days, every customer I meet with is “going digital” And with research showing that mastering digital can result 26% greater profitability who wouldn’t want to? But, if you are evolving to a digital business, you must build on a rock-solid foundation. Otherwise, you’ll simply be playing with a…