secure data center

The applications we need to do business are no longer just residing in a single, physical data center. Sure, there are some applications running in your on-premises data center. But some are also running in offsite data centers. Or in your private cloud. Or on Amazon Web Services. Many are likely mo…

‘Data center anywhere’ requires security everywhere It’s 9am. Do you know where your data is? If you’re like most businesses today, it’s everywhere. Your data center is no longer a physical place – it’s wherever your data is – on-premises, in SaaS-based applications, and in public clouds. In fact, G…

For most businesses, the rapidly changing nature of the modern data center poses a significant security challenge. The data center remains the heart of digital enterprises, and IT departments are looking for solutions to make the data center accessible anytime, anywhere. At Cisco, we have redefined…

The data center of today is dynamic yet complex. The constant evolution of new infrastructure, applications, distributed systems, and users has made the demands on the data center acute. Add to that the heightened need for security. No matter where the data center is hosted, mission critical informa…

George Tupy’s recent blog described how the growth of cloud and over the top (OTT) video presents a massive market opportunity for service providers to deliver video content anytime, anywhere, and on any screen. He also discussed how open IP networks and cloud-based delivery methods introduce new se…

If you were to ask any security administrator who had to manage the security policies across an organization, they would probably define the “5-Tuple” as a “hard to understand, cryptic method leftover from the 1990s’ policy management for implementing access control and segmentation capabilities in…

If you’ve ever caught an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music, the TV series that profiles rock bands and personalities, you may agree with me that it can be fascinating. I especially like the interviews about the creative process. I’ve learned that great songs can come from just about anyw…

I have a keen interest in the Latin American region because several of my closest friends and my respected colleagues are from this region. Also, internal market forces and global demand are accelerating the rate of data center projects, further heightening my interest. Last year, I visited the regi…

As the demand for next-generation data center services increases, organizations have embraced virtualization and cloud-computing technologies that require security architectures to be more dynamic, automated, and services-oriented. Most network security technologies have not kept pace, they are stat…