programmability

Uniserver, a leading cloud and IT services provider in the Netherlands, has a single, clear mission: to make IT simple. Internally, however, the effort involved in provisioning cloud infrastructure and services for customers was anything but. Today, Uniserver is using Cisco virtualization and networ…

Let me just start by saying this…10 minutes before we even started the webinar, the questions started rolling in. The first question, of course, being “Do I need to understand programming to be a network engineer?” Something we’re hearing over and over these days. If you̵…

A blog from Cisco, dedicated specifically to developers? Really? Yes really. In fact, if you still think of Cisco as the routers and switches company… well, I’m not sure what rock you’ve been living under. Cisco is a software company, playing a major role in this era of digital transformation. Our p…

”Dog years”, the term is usually used to describe the age of a dog.  In the rough formula 1 human year = ~7 “dog years”.  I often feel that technology runs in its own form of dog years.  Every human year that goes by the rate of technology innovation accelerates.  This ever accelerating rate of chan…

Wow, what a week it has been for Cisco and especially for DevNet! Last week on May 23rd and 24th something magical happened. A lot of people were caught by surprise, but Cisco organized its first-ever conference catering to its developer community. As we ramp down a very successful event, it is wort…

Written by Ola Mabadeje, Marketing Manager “Recalculating”… “Recalculating”… was all I heard when I eventually turned on the GPS navigator with the latest navigation software. I had been stuck in traffic and then decided to take some backroads to my destination. I had initially tried to…

Network programmability is such a generic term, like SDN and the whole Software Defined X paradigm, that it means different things to different people. Not so long ago network programmability was synonymous with Openflow but as time passed and pragmatism kicked in, the industry settled around a comm…

The next time you fly, look at the instrument panel the pilots are using to fly the plane. Gone are the quivering dials and cloudy gauges. Flight decks are now dominated by sleek, digital displays and advanced on-board systems that allow pilots to focus on flying the plane rather than managing the i…

If you are reading this blog then you most likely understand that APIs allow inter-working among products. In the context of Firepower Management Center, the REST APIs allow programming of the Firepower devices to allow one to automatically provision devices, deploy policies and controls, and monito…