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Whew… I’m freshly back from Barcelona and Cisco Live Europe 2018. It was without a doubt my favorite and most rewarding, Cisco Live yet!  #CLEUR 2018 marked my one year as a part of the #DevNet team and as an event it provided an excellent bookend to an amazing year where we were able to…

When the telephone rings in the IT department, you can bet there’s an unhappy user on the other end. “I can’t connect.” “My app won’t load.” “The network keeps kicking me off.” “The wireless has been flakey for two weeks.” The only thing more certain than dissatisfied users is a frustrated IT depart…

Last time in this space I covered APIGee, a component of the Cisco and Google Hybrid Cloud announcement that enables legacy data stores to be front-ended by a modern, secure API with analytics and monitoring.  But if you have business logic running in the public cloud, how can you securely and relia…

Introducing Software Defined Application Visibility and Control The Network Intuitive has ushered in a new era networking and as the landscape of this era reveals itself, it becomes apparent that there are several innovative ways of managing the network. One such service, that my team has been passi…

Greetings and Happy New Year to you all. I trust you all enjoyed the Holiday Season. Like many, I took some time off during the Holidays. We spent a week up in Mammoth Mountain here in California and while the snow quantity was a little lacking, the snow quality and somewhat smaller crowds more than…

Hello all, This is the last blog post of 2017. It truly has been a great year for our team. We launched the RV340, RV340W, RV345 and RV345P VPN Security Routers. These RV Series models provide business firewall protection and high-performance network access and protects businesses from unwanted con…

As an IT service provider, Germany’s Kommunales Rechenzentrum Minden-Ravensberg/Lippe (krz) knows a thing or two about the technology world. That’s why it’s no surprise why they choose Cisco to outfit their organization with the most cutting-edge devices. When the company needed to improve network a…

The Cisco Small Business Switching Team is excited to announce the availability of 2.3.5 software release, delivering significant feature updates to the 250 Series Smart Switches. We have added Static routing (IPv4/IPv6) Security with ACL QoS with ACL CLI through Telnet/SSH Dual image Time based…

If you’re on the fence about whether to purchase (or renew) Cisco Support Services, I’ve got a story for you. I recently met with a group of Cisco Account Managers to better understand what customers are looking for in a protection policy. As the team began to whiteboard all the reasons, I saw a pat…