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September 11, 2019

DEVELOPER

Preparing to Automate a New Data Center for DevNet Sandbox

You don’t need to look hard to see that DevNet is growing, and as DevNet grows, DevNet Sandbox must grow. DevNet Sandbox provides engineers and developers access to Cisco, partner, and open source infrastructure, and software as a service from “the cloud.”  For a variety of reasons…

August 27, 2019

DEVELOPER

Some Real World Network Automation Lessons Learned

Eight months ago I joined the DevNet Sandbox Engineering and Operations team. For the first time in about eight years, I was back in a role where I had day to day responsibilities for a production environment. A big reason for my interest in joining this team was to see what it was like to apply the…

August 5, 2019

DEVELOPER

How Do I Get Started Learning Network Automation? – Revisited

Back in March of 2018 I wrote the blog “How Do I Get Started Learning Network Programmability?” to help answer, well that question.  It was (and still is) one of the most common questions I get asked.  It’s been a wicked ride this last year and half in network automation, I figured…

May 31, 2019

DATA CENTER

VXLAN EVPN – De-Facto Standard, Open and Interoperable

Authored by Faraz Taifehesmatian: Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco Why interoperability and standardization is relevant to you Interoperability provides options for you to mix and match the technology based on your business needs. Either you want to adapt new innovations, or refresh your infrastr…

April 30, 2019

CLOUD

How To Get Started with ACI & Multicloud Software Defined Networking

If you have been reading my previous blogs, you might have learned a bit on why MultiCloud Networking and Automation are key in today’s IT-driven world. In this blog I wanted to change the pace a little bit and address one of the most recurrent questions I get from many customers: “How do I start?”…

Cisco is Looking Forward to Seeing You at the Big 5G Event

Building on the tremendous momentum generated at MWC-Barcelona a few months ago, Cisco is the Diamond sponsor for the Big 5G Event May 6-8 in Denver, CO.  This is a great opportunity to learn about the Cisco 5G architecture, how it is being implemented today, and to learn about some new cloud-native…

April 9, 2019

DATA CENTER

ACI Anywhere Now Extending From On-Premises to AWS Cloud

Cisco is pleased to announce availability of a brand-new solution, Cisco Cloud ACI on AWS. This solution automates management of end-to-end connectivity and enforcement of consistent network security policies for applications running in on-prem data centers and AWS public cloud regions. Decentralize…

Rakuten Cloud Platform is a Blueprint for the Future

Things that seem obvious today were not always that way. At some point, someone with a bit of courage and a flash of insight makes a bold move—like sticking a digital camera on the back of a phone. The rest of the world responds with a collective “of course!” and the world is changed, never to look…

March 20, 2019

DEVELOPER

Detecting Network Abuse with Automation

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…