software defined networking
Zero Trust – Making a Deliberate Cybersecurity Lifestyle Choice
These days there are so many initiatives for cybersecurity and digital transformation across Federal Government that it’s getting hard to keep up, let alone figure out how to implement them all. But by adopting Zero Trust as your agency’s operational paradigm, you can chart a principled…
Cisco Live San Diego 2019 – Data Center Networking Sneak Peak
With friendly locals, miles of amazing coastline, and plenty of things to do and see… San Diego is the perfect summer destination. Next week, a double treat awaits visitors. The San Diego convention center will wear a festive look as Cisco Live 2019, Cisco’s world-renowned annual customer and partne…
Open programmable architecture delivering value beyond connectivity
Co-author: Srini Jasti In our last blog, we discussed how Cisco delivers consistency and simplicity, with integrated security, across Enterprise domains. Now we’ll discuss in more detail how this is done. “People who are serious about software should make their own hardware” – Alan Kay Cisco uniquel…
Delivering Consistency, Agility, and Operational simplicity across Enterprise domains
Co-author: Srini Jasti, Sr. Product Manager – Enterprise Switching Enterprises are demanding more and more from their networks even with reducing budgets and increasing complexity. Today, IT teams are looking for effective, simpler solutions to deploy and operate their networks. Many are already won…
The “what”, “why”, and “how” of intent-based networking
Co-authored by Bob Laliberte, Practice Director & Senior Analyst, ESG Earlier in 2018, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) published its whitepaper on how an intent-based approach to networking was enabling IT and networking teams to address their top operational challenges, including: budget costs,…
New XR Programmability Learning Labs and Sandbox Let You Explore
Get your free DevNet account for access to our developer resources, learning labs, and sandbox. Turning team focus to network automation and programmability I came from a network service provider background. Then, when I starting working at Cisco, I was working on the Cisco Security network team. Th…
Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited improves banking services availability with Cisco ACI
Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL), the first bank in Bangladesh to be fully automated, offers a wide range of financial products and services to businesses and consumers. It introduced “plastic money” and digital banking services to the Bangladeshi masses in 2003, and now operates the nation’s larges…
Grifols Increases IT Efficiency and Builds Global Data Center Network with Cisco ACI
Grifols is a global healthcare company working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Grifols has been working in the fields of transfusion, blood banking, protein therapeutics, and laboratory analysis for more than 70 years and distributes products in 90 countries. Challen…
Why is intent-based networking good news for software-defined networking?
In a previous blog post Cisco Engineering teams looked “under the hood” at intent-based networking. A common question we receive is: “What is the relationship of software-defined networking (SDN) to intent-based networking?” In this blog we: Compare the model of SDN with intent-based networking: H…