catalyst

January 28, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

New Year, New Challenges, New Successes: SDN Bringing Agility, Security and TCO to Campus and Branch Networks

4 min read

Before recently taking on a new role as Cisco’s vice president and general manager of Software-Defined Network (SDN) with the enterprise networking group, I served as the vice president and...

June 5, 2013

NETWORKING

Announcing the New Cisco Catalyst 2960-X Series Switches

3 min read

What do you get when you take Cisco’s best-selling campus access switch line, double almost everything (including port density in-stack, stacking bandwidth, buffers and CPU), then make it more secure and simpler to use, all with power-saving capabilities that possibly make it the “greenest” access switch in the industry? You get a GameChanger This is […]

Catalog Management in Digital Services Mash-Ups

1 min read

By Greg Scullard, Technical Leader, Cloud Systems Management Technology Group  In recent years, catalogs have had a major role in allowing product offer and service creation sourced from complex value chains. At the Management World conference expo held between 13th and 16th May 2013 and organized by TM Forum, which is a global, non-profit industry […]

May 11, 2013

TECHWISETV

Funny Thing Happened on the Way Past the Casino

3 min read

Interop was made more fun for us this year since we got to be on stage. Most of what we usually do is on camera of course…but presenting in front of people is the best. Since we started TechWiseTV 7 years ago, we have tried to always get better at our on-camera skills. This has […]

March 26, 2013

SECURITY

Cisco Still Number One for Data Center Security

2 min read

We were excited to read the Infonetics Data Center Security Strategies and Vendor Leadership: North American Enterprise Survey, which was released yesterday. It revealed Cisco’s continued leadership in a market that spans a multitude of vendors – application/database, client, data center integration and network. The report indicates that leaders need to offer the right mix of […]

March 11, 2013

NETWORKING

Announcing my3850

1 min read

Not mine, exactly, but it could be yours. my3850 (lowercase intentional) is the new community for people interested in learning more about the new Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switch.  This community is also for those currently using the Catalyst 3850 or those partners helping plan, deploy, or run a network with these new converged-access switches .  We actually launched this […]

February 19, 2013

NETWORKING

Demystifying the Catalyst: Cisco Context Aware Secure Access (Security Group Tags – SGT) Technology

In this blog, let us take a look at how Catalyst access switches enable and enforce context aware access to IT resources. Many types of devices, including laptops, smartphones, and tablets, are used by end users to connect to the network wired, wirelessly, and remotely through VPN. With bring your own device (BYOD) access, the […]

February 7, 2013

TECHWISETV

More from London – Unified as ONE

I was really impressed with Cisco Live London..for those of you who took the time to shake our hand and say hello…THANK YOU!  You make us feel like geek rock stars!  Good thing the doors are really big at these conferences so my inflated ego could still make it through.  I mentioned our Fundamentals of Converged Wireless and Wireless […]

February 6, 2013

TECHWISETV

Wired and Wireless Convergence

Lots of big announcements around the new Catalyst 3850 that are very very interesting for how we design networks.  Check out our latest ‘Fundamentals’ to fully appreciate what has been accomplished here! Thanks for watching as always! Robb