IAC

April 19, 2023

DATA CENTER

Unleash the Power of Nexus Dashboard with the Connector for HashiCorp Terraform

2 min read

We are announcing today a unique value proposition through our integration with Terraform Cloud for Business. Together with our strategic technology partner, HashiCorp, we are extending Nexus Dashboard to include a secure and compliant automation platform, complete with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities.

July 11, 2022

DEVELOPER

Why Your Network Automation Should Shift Left Now

3 min read

“Shift left” security is moving security to the soonest feasible point in the development process. We look at what it means to combine security concerns with the NetDevOps model to ensure that security is an integral part of the software development life cycle and for network automation.

February 4, 2022

DEVELOPER

Securing Python Code with Cython

2 min read

See the detail for how compiling modules with Cython addresses the challenge of protecting a Python-based codebase.

October 4, 2021

NETWORKING

Cisco ISE on AWS Expands Zero-Trust to the Edge

3 min read

To increase deployment flexibility of Cisco’s NAS while supporting IT’s journey to public cloud platforms, Cisco ISE 3.1 is now cloud-ready and available on the AWS Marketplace.

April 2, 2021

CLOUD

New #CiscoChat: Strategies for Infrastructure as Code Automation Across Your Hybrid Cloud

1 min read

In this #CiscoChat, panelists will expand on a conversation started at CiscoLive about the Cisco and HashiCorp collaboration and Intersight Service for Terraform. Join us April 8th at 10am PDT.

March 31, 2021

DATA CENTER

Accelerating to Hybrid Cloud with Cisco Nexus Dashboard

5 min read

Cisco Nexus Dashboard provides a single focal point to unite the disparate views of globe-spanning multicloud data center operations, application deployment, and performance.

March 24, 2015

DATA CENTER

Deliver Services at Internet Speed

2 min read

How quickly can your organization stand-up a new application or deploy new services?  Most customers tell me, “not fast enough!”   I am clearly hearing from them that the new standard expectation across the organization is to receive precise data center resources in “internet time,” easily and definitely on-demand. But customers are not the only […]

December 2, 2014

DATA CENTER

Is IT Automation the Key to Operational Excellence? Industry Analysts Think So

1 min read

Businesses move quickly until they have to cross rough roads paved with technical challenges. That’s because even though data centers are sophisticated, the components that support most businesses still include far too many 20th century manual processes, silo based resources and administrators pressured to keep up. Although automation can speed up IT, and your business, […]

April 9, 2014

DATA CENTER

Open Source Acceleration for Applications

3 min read

In previous blogs I have described how organizations are maturing beyond provisioning of individual servers to provisioning of richer cloud-based application stacks.  Known as platform-as-a-service (PaaS), this capability takes cloud technology beyond infrastructure to automate the application life cycle.  PaaS allows developers and IT operations to collaborate and ensure that application stacks are consistent and […]