July 23, 2021

DATA CENTER

Why I’m Still at Cisco After 16 Years

4 min read

Eeshita Grover has been a Cisco tech writer and manager for 16 years because "I’ve had the opportunity to work on groundbreaking technologies, to have my voice and ideas heard by superiors, to advance my career from individual contributor to manager, and to witness the evolution of Cisco into a close-knit family." 

July 15, 2021

DATA CENTER

Nanosecond Buffer Visibility with Hardware-Based Microburst Detection

4 min read

Learn how the advanced hardware capabilities of Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches, the streaming telemetry provided by NX-OS, and the cutting-edge microservices-based Day 2 Operations functions provided by Nexus Dashboard Insights application simplify the process of identifying congestion in the network before it becomes a significant problem.

July 15, 2021

DATA CENTER

Making the Most of Network Telemetry in an Imperfect World

4 min read

Nexus Dashboard Insights is a powerful correlation engine with intelligence derived from machine learning that speeds time to recovery for a wide variety of data center network issues.

July 13, 2021

DATA CENTER

How Cisco Cloud Application Centric Infrastructure (Cloud ACI) powers Application Service Chaining

3 min read

Manual service chaining can be cumbersome and error prone. Cloud ACI helps automate service chaining for your workloads in the cloud with ease, all the way from routing to security policies.

June 29, 2021

DATA CENTER

How to easily collect Cisco MDS 9000 log files

3 min read

Troubleshooting MDS 9000 fabrics starts from collecting tech-support files and contacting the Cisco TAC. What is the suggested approach for doing so?

June 29, 2021

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS C245 M6 server based on AMD EPYC sets 14 world records

2 min read

Nothing is hotter than the 14 new SPEC.org world-record benchmarks just delivered by the Cisco UCS C245 M6 Server based on 3rd generation AMD EPYC™ CPUs.

June 29, 2021

DATA CENTER

Deploy 5G O-RAN with Cisco Nexus 9000

5 min read

Open RAN (O-RAN) deployments based on Nexus 9000 swiches save costs by eliminating vendor lock-in and enabling telecom service providers to leverage virtualization at the edge for innovative apps and services. Learn about the Open-RAN architecture, the PTP telecom profile, and deployment models of O-RAN using Cisco Nexus 9000 switches.

June 28, 2021

DATA CENTER

F5 & Cisco ACI Essentials: ServiceCenter — One stop shop for IP address facts

1 min read

Debugging a network issue can be daunting, involving 100's of IP addresses spread across your entire deployment. Imagine having a tool that can get all the information you want from an IP address with a click of a button. The F5 ACI ServiceCenter is designed to do exactly that, and more.

June 17, 2021

DATA CENTER

Enable faster, more secure application deployments with Network Infrastructure Automation by Cisco and HashiCorp

2 min read

HashiCorp and Cisco are lighting the way to Network Infrastructure Automation (NIA) with Cisco ACI and Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS), accelerating application delivery by automating networking related tasks.