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September 8, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Give enterprise customers what they want: Bridging the network services innovation gap

2 min read

Written by Cisco Senior Marketing Manager Wayne Cullen and Cisco Marketing Manager Melissa Zelyez Enterprise demands for fast, adaptable networks are at an all-time high. Some service providers are struggling to keep pace. So how can you ensure you’re not one of them? The answer is simple: virtual managed services. Consumer tools and behavior have […]

Lift and Shift Is Necessary but Not Sufficient

14 min read

Originally published in the book: Gray, Ken & Nadeau, Thomas. Network Function Virtualization, 1st Edition. (2016). Morgan Kaufman, also available here. This book by Ken and Tom on NFV is perhaps the first time they’ve laid out both a fantastic review of the vast landscape of technologies related to virtualized networking and woven in a subtle […]

August 10, 2016

NETWORKING

Cisco DNA Skills Evolution

2 min read

Enterprises are looking to design and deploy network infrastructure that responds faster to change. Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) can help organizations get in front of this market movement by providing a flexible, programmable and open architecture, delivering the foundation for transitioning your business, operations, and technology strategies to achieve digitization. With Cisco DNA, The […]

July 27, 2016

NETWORKING

“People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.” – Theodore Levitt

2 min read

This summer, I started teaching Leadership and character building to my 8-year-old son. To get some structure to the plan, I bought a good book which was organized into value based chapters and exercises. I would read one chapter with him everyday and complete the exercises at the end of the chapter. I had no […]

Segment Routing is crossing the chasm with real live deployments!

2 min read

As stated in my previous blog on Segment Routing, 2016 marks an inflexion point in Segment Routing adoption. I’m not making this claim in a vacuum. This is actually grounded on multiple Service Providers’ feedback expressed during a Tech Field Day event on Segment Routing held last week in San Jose. Tech Field Day brought […]

June 27, 2016

DATA CENTER

Micro Segmentation and Cisco ACI – From Theory to Practice Part II

6 min read

This is Part II in a four part series of blogs.  This is the second of a series of blogs where we will illustrate how to leverage Cisco ACI to implement Micro Segmentation. In the first blog we described how to use ACI micro segmentation to implement a web application that uses a tier of […]

June 16, 2016

CLOUD

How Cloud Native and Container Platforms Change the Way We Think about Networking

4 min read

Networking has been a foundational component of our economy since the Internet days. In the early days, defining protocols and standards for how to connect, route, and interoperate local, metro,...

June 15, 2016

DATA CENTER

Tetration Analytics: A Limitless Time Machine For Your Data Center

1 min read

No pill or product can make you Limitless. However, Cisco Tetration Analytics comes closer than anything in the industry to delivering Limitless capabilities!

June 8, 2016

DATA CENTER

Micro Segmentation and Cisco ACI – From Theory to Practice

8 min read

This is Part I in a four part series of blogs.  Micro-segmentation has become a buzzword in the networking industry. Leaving the term and the marketing aside, it is easy to understand why customers are interested in the benefits that Micro-segmentation provides. The primary advantage of Micro-segmentation is to reduce the attack surface by minimizing […]