API

March 16, 2017

SECURITY

How to get started on programming Firepower using FMC APIs?

2 min read

If you are reading this blog then you most likely understand that APIs allow inter-working among products. In the context of Firepower Management Center, the REST APIs allow programming of the Firepower devices to allow one to automatically provision devices, deploy policies and controls, and monitor device health. In this blog I will try to […]

March 16, 2017

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Cisco Chat: Have APIs killed the CLI?

1 min read

Join our #CiscoChat at 8am PT on March 22. Is the CLI really at risk of going away, or can new network APIs and the CLI happily co-exist? Join Cisco Developers and Systems Engineers on developer.cisco.com to lead this discussion.

January 24, 2017

SECURITY

Keeping Up with Security Vulnerability Disclosures with the Cisco PSIRT openVuln API

3 min read

The Cisco PSIRT openVuln API is a RESTful API that allows customers to obtain Cisco security vulnerability information in different machine-consumable formats. It supports industrywide security standards such as the Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF), Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL), Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE) identifiers, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), and the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). This API […]

January 17, 2017

NETWORKING

Enabling Mobile Applications with Cisco Digital Network Architecture (#CiscoDNA)

4 min read

I’d like to share some of my favorite things inside Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA). Before we get going, I thought it would be fun to just spend a moment on what DNA is, from a layman’s perspective. Cisco DNA revolutionizes the way you deploy and manage your network for the digital era through a […]

November 29, 2016

NETWORKING

Over 1400 Customers Have Set the Foundation for Their Digital Transformation

2 min read

Just over a year ago Cisco announced the general availability of APIC-EM (#APICEM), a software defined networking (SDN) platform for the enterprise branch, campus and WAN. In just over 12...

November 23, 2016

GOVERNMENT

Orchestrating Smart City Ecosystems

5 min read

Orchestrating the smart city ecosystem is a combination of art and science that blends company cultures, business models, and objectives into a living, evolving expression of alignment with the goals of city leaders and citizens.

November 14, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Programmability

2 min read

Infrastructure automation, continuous deployment and efficient operations require programmable infrastructure. Developers want to treat physical infrastructure the way they treat other application services, using processes that automatically provision or change infrastructure resources. Your operations staff needs to provision, configure, and monitor physical and virtual resources. This allows them to automate routine activities and rapidly isolate […]

June 28, 2016

NETWORKING

Cisco DevNet DNA Community of Interest Launches

1 min read

Co-authored by Jeff Reed, SVP of Cisco Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions Since announcing The Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) in March, it has been generating a great deal of enthusiasm in the networking community. Cisco DNA represents an opportunity for the network to drive digital transformation in your organization and take you on a technology journey […]

Unleash the power of partners – your channel to new cloud revenue

2 min read

Many service providers have yet to tap into the full business potential of IT-as-a-service. If they’re willing to invest the time developing the relationship with their channel partners, the returns could be considerable. The dramatic growth of cloud services isn’t a new concept to service providers (SP). Recent research from AMI-Partners[1] forecasts global revenues of […]