Articles
Tetration Analytics Shines a Light on Your Data Center
3 min read
I was very excited to finally get a chance to cover Tetration, especially when I learned that Cisco IT wanted to weigh-in on their experience with the platform. As you know, IT isn’t prone to blindness by “shiny objects.” They’re interested in solving real problems, and Cisco IT is no different.
CliQr: Have Your Cake and Eat it Too.
2 min read
The idea of ‘one size fits all’ never worked for me. And it certainly does not work for picking a cloud vendor. CliQr has become Cisco CloudCenter and you will love how easy this is making things.
Digital Ceiling and the Semiconductor Blues
7 min read
Light-Emitting Diodes (LED’s) create light by sending an electrical signal to a sandwich of semiconductor materials to create electromagnetic radiation that we see as light or ‘Electroluminescence’. It’s actually a specific wavelength of light depending on the chemical make-up of the materials used.
Oxymoronic or Not? Legacy Next Generation Firewalls…
2 min read
Cisco announced “the industry’s first fully integrated, threat-focused Next Generation Firewall. “ But what the heck is ‘fully integrated’ and ‘threat focused?’ These sound like important distinctions.
Are you reaching your Digital Potential?
2 min read
So as to avoid burying the lead, you will get a chance to experience Enterprise Network Function Virtualization (E-NFV), APIC-EM updates and demonstration, the network as a security sensor with a little Lancope update, changes to CMX now in a ‘cloud’ version, and end to end quality control for applications like Jabber…end to end QoS.
Enterprise NFV Fundamentals
3 min read
Enterprise NFV is focused on bringing this SDN style functionality to your branch office capabilities. Any large enterprise is thinking like a service provider these days because the IT department (or whatever you might call it now) are providing business critical functions. The faster it can be done, the more it can be used and at the lowest cost..the better.
Let there be “Networked” Light
3 min read
How the Digital Age has us re-thinking the victor of the AC/DC wars.
Why do we need NBASE-T?
2 min read
How well do you understand the data bottleneck that NBASE-T Alliance is helping us solve? What are the cost effective options for preserving your cable investment? Robb Boyd explains in this latest, ‘Fundamentals of NBASE-T’ from TechWiseTV.
Network like it’s 1999 with BGP EVPN
4 min read
BGP EVPN brings both layer 2 and 3 capabilities to the hamstrung overlay but how would it work for your network? How well do you understand the additional benefits and limitations of this design?
Network Automation for DevOps
2 min read
Network automation is an integral part of the overall infrastructure automation. Yet, it has been largely left out of the DevOps movement.
Splunk on TechWiseTV: Operational Intelligence at Scale
1 min read
Cisco UCS, and the ability to expand to thousands of servers, supports the massive scalability that Splunk deployments require to deliver exceptional performance
More Wi-Fi. Less Controller.
1 min read
Surely the notion of enterprise quality does not equate to some kind of increase in complexity?
Open NX-OS featured on TechWiseTV
4 min read
NX-OS is now more modular, more open, more capable of third party integration providing a wide variety of programmability choices ideal for Dev-Ops environments. C'mon Network Engineers. Time to brush up on your Linux...maybe a little Python...
Microsoft Lync Made Better
1 min read
Jabber supports Lync interoperability despite having to work with proprietary Microsoft protocols.
Cisco Modeling Labs on TechWiseTV
3 min read
Designing, building, testing and launching physical networks can be an expensive, complex and time-consuming endeavor, and these trends are putting a premium on the need to speed up the process.
Intercloud Fabric: Unleashing Hybrid Cloud
1 min read
TechWiseTV Episode 174 featuring Cisco Intercloud Fabric, part of the Enterprise Cloud Suite with guest John McDonough, @johnamcdonough YouTube Preview https://youtu.be/XjPGaZK-yTE Watch the full show right now. Related Episode 171: Cloud Agility for automation in the private cloud featuring Cisco Prime Service Catalog, Stack Designer. Short on time but curios? Watch the Short Promo of 171. The […]
TechWiseTV SP: Cloud VPN
2 min read
We ARE going to show you a specific service, using YOUR network, where the technology can be ready to go faster than your marketing or sales department can be ready to sell it.
Network Service Orchestration enabled by Tail-f
2 min read
These engineers recognized that network management was full of increasingly complex ‘stuff’ being ladled over the top of our networks ignoring the root issues. They believed that a standardized data construct that could be used within any vendor, but it would be such a monumental undertaking that up to that point, nobody had tackled it. This significantly changes how services are created. It changes the focus from defining a configuration to defining a service. This is a capability that a business leader can understand and get behind.
Fundamentals of 802.11ac Wave 2
4 min read
Wi-Fi technologies continue to pick up speed as 802.11ac Wave 2 is now making its way into new deployments. What is really happening within these latest changes and what do they mean for your strategy? Watch and learn as Robb Boyd shares the five most important nuances found within these advancements on this TechWiseTV Fundamentals.
How to Dress for the Camera
5 min read
What should I wear on your video? We get this question all the time. As much as camera technology has advanced over time, there are still some important things to understand about how light is processed through a lens and what your choice of attire can do to mess it up. Our eyes are still better at adjusting to many things than a camera is. The color and the patterns we see will look different through the lens. When it comes to TV, you really want to dress for the camera to look your best. Some people worry too much - but it is good to have a little knowledge as to WHY we are asking you not to do certain things. I have divided these tips that I generally share into a couple of simple categories to make this as easy as it really is.
Tour the Cisco Allen Data Center
5 min read
I had been looking forward to revisiting one of my favorite data center's. We had done this first back in 2011 and that video continues to do pretty...
Inside Meraki and Cloud Networking
1 min read
“If it seems to good to be true…” In this statement lies the central problem to a couple of guys with a career in networking: Meraki does some beautifully complex things…but in a deceivingly simple wrapper.
Smarter Routers for the Intelligent WAN
1 min read
I really don’t envy the Cisco ISR team. It is really tough to be a leader and still out perform yourselves on a consistent basis. One could argue there is nowhere to go but down. I think is cool that TechWiseTV has been around long enough to chronicle the changes over time. Heck, many of […]
Explore Cisco TAC
1 min read
Just another Call Center? Initially, I was not too excited about doing a show on TAC, Cisco’s Technical Assistance Center. This topic has been requested in various forms throughout the years and for whatever reason, we just never took the time to do it right. Until now. – Watch the entire Show Right Now– Cool thing about […]
ASA now with FirePower Services?
1 min read
I get tired of the word NGFW because it tends to lend itself now to more of a marketing term. Anytime you hear that type of stuff it's like, "What makes it next generation?" If you look at Star Trek, what makes Star Trek Next Generation is they got android on the bridge. It's like, "So there's some differences there." More than just marketing.
One Data Center. Two Locations.
3 min read
TechWiseTV covered San Francisco to St. Louis for the reality multi-site data center design.
Internet of Things – The Technical Reality
11 min read
There are very real and substantive things being done with IoT