Omar Sultan

With Cisco Live in San Diego fast approaching next week, new are in plate spinning mode, but I did want to take moment to call out the "must see" demos...

We just finished working with the analyst firm Analysys Mason on a whitepaper on the factors behind successful automation projects

If you want to better understand how Rakuten is building RCP, I have some deep dive technical links at the end of this blog. For now, I wanted to explore why Rakuten decided to invest the time, effort and resources in building RCP.

Sometime late last year, we sold our 500,000th device license for Cisco NSO. To be honest, we really did not notice at the time as folks were heads-down working on...

I had the opportunity to chat with David Yen a few days ago on a number of topics–one of the things he touched on was how he sees the data center evolving.  Now seeing as David is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of our Data Center Group, there are more than just idle […]

On the road to becoming a shipping product, our Cisco ONE Controller goes thorough a number of steps.  One such step is interoperability testing at InCTRE Interoperability Lab.  I recently caught up Phil Casini, Product Manager for the controller to see exactly what that entails and why our customers should care. Phil, What exactly is […]

So, after weeks of biting my tongue through what seemed like a constant drip of leaks and rumors, we can finally take the covers off OpenDaylight.  So, lets cover some of the basics: What? OpenDaylight is an open source project formed under the Linux Foundation with the mutual goal of furthering the adoption and innovation of […]

So, we wrapped up our day with the Networking Field Day crew last week with a free form discussion on where we go next with SDN.  To be honest, the session did not go quite as I envisioned, but, in retrospect, I would not changed anything.  As Ethan Banks (of PacketPushers fame) noted in Twitter, […]

So, we have the Tech Field Day crew on the Cisco campus today.  As you may now, Tech Field Day brings some of the industry’s leading bloggers together with folks like Cisco to cover the latest technology and trends. We are lucky to have the TFD team here all way and we have a number […]