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Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of security alerts and potential threats hitting your SOC? Security risks have never been greater, with networks expanding into the cloud, the explosion of mobile and IoT devices, and increasingly sophisticated threats. On top of that, disparate security tools make it…

Intersight’s open AI Ops framework provides the potential for a wide range of enhanced user experiences using Alexa and other natural language processing technologies. Guest Blogger: David Soper, Technical Marketing Engineer Benefits of AI Ops Cisco established our cloud-based operations management…

Cisco launched our cloud-based platform for AI-driven IT operations (a.k.a. AI Ops), Cisco Intersight, last September. It already delivers significant benefits, and we intend to take it to the next level with artificial intelligence and machine learning.  Guest Blogger: Gautham Ravi, Director, UCS P…

The wide-spread adoption of the Internet is simply phenomenal. 2018 marks the year where the number of Internet users has surpassed half of the world’s population with 3.6B users. And, according to Cisco VNI, IP traffic will grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 24 percent from 2016 to 202…

Today, Yvette Kanouff, posted a blog explaining how Cisco is expanding our software disaggregation capabilities in the areas where it makes the most sense, for added scale and functionality, and to provide more flexible options for customers who need it. What does this mean for Cisco Service Provide…

Cloud architects and IT operations need a consistent policy model for all applications and for the virtual and physical infrastructure hosting it. A policy model for control, monitoring, and enforcement contributes to bringing today’s siloed operational teams together, with the ability to integrate…

Some random, yet strangely connected, thoughts the night before Halloween… Zombies can be scary: Death Metal* can be scary: Click here to listen. Learning new skills and using new tools to automate your network can appear to be scary if you don’t have a coding background. But that doesn’t n…

Over the past several years, I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of two important trends in the networking industry – the evolution of open standards and open APIs, and the definition of policy as the key interface to the network. Open is an extremely important word to the future of networking…

In my previous 3-part blog series I discussed the challenges in the Enterprise WAN and relevancy of SDN in overcoming these challenges and how Cisco ONE Enterprise Networks Architecture addresses these WAN challenges. In this blog post I will discuss how Cisco ONE (Open Network Environment) and ONE…