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On October 24th 2019 we will discuss “Demystifying Cisco Orchestration for Infrastructure as Code” on BrightTalk. Register Here.  The following blog is a primer for this upcoming webinar. Automating the software development life-cycle DevOps teams are becoming more agile, reducing costs,…

Time to take gaming seriously Video gaming is huge, by any measure you choose. By revenue, it’s expected to be more than $150 billion in 2019, making it bigger than movies, TV and digital music, with a strong 9% CAGR.  And it’s not just teenagers. Two-thirds of adult Americans — your paying customer…

In our previous blog, we looked at how Cisco can help service providers (SPs) deliver high-quality 5G solutions to their enterprise customers. We now continue the story by focusing on two important 5G-network enablers: automation and orchestration. In the light of today’s changing market trends, thi…

More great news for Cisco from a report completed by Analysys Mason – Cisco maintained its #1 market share position for Network Control and Orchestration solutions in 2017, cementing its place as the industry leader for service provider network automation and orchestration solutions. With 19%…

We are incredibly excited to be the premier sponsor at Light Reading’s Software Defined Operations & the Autonomous Network event in London on November 7th and 8th! Light Reading has established this event as an opportunity for service providers and telecom industry leaders to engage in high-lev…

Authored by Jared Headley, Senior Director of Cloud Platforms and Services  Twenty-five years ago, the pain in my wrists was unbearable.  I was spending 10-12 hours a day creating presentations about the OSI model and the power of a multiprotocol network (yeah, I’m old).  After visiting a doctor and…

As we have discussed in our Software-Defined Branch (SD-Branch) blog series, Part 1 examined SD-Branch hardware and software, while Part 2 explored orchestration and management options. To sum it up-the Cisco SD-Branch solution provides a simplified, software-based approach to branch office network…

As we have discussed in this series, enterprise and service providers are consolidating network services from dedicated hardware appliances into virtualized on-demand applications running on branch office software with centralized orchestration and management. Eliminating the hardware need for each…

We are all indebted to the many network engineers who have performed their tasks faithfully through the years. They laid the foundation for the vast internet ecosystem that we enjoy today. And while we do not wish to replace them, it’s time to let the machines take over work that has become routine…