infrastructure

Cisco Introduces a New Era in Networking, Powered by Software Innovation and Subscription Buying

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Yesterday’s introduction of Cisco DNA Advantage and Essentials subscription-based network software will transform how infrastructure software is bought and deployed in the new era of networking. These latest innovations...

June 16, 2017

HEALTHCARE

Outdated healthcare network? Don’t miss the signs and symptoms

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Electronic health records. Patient monitoring devices. Imaging systems. Mobile communications. It’s true: virtually every function in your healthcare facility relies on a robust, modern digital infrastructure. Healthy network security is...

March 21, 2017

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Save the Date for DevNet Create

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Please meet DevNet Create, held in San Francisco, CA, May 23-24, an industry-led two-day conference that is built to dive deep into the blurred lines between infrastructure and applications. Through two session tracks, networking, keynotes, workshops, mini-hacks and learning labs, the conference offers top notch content combined with hands-on learning, to break down the barriers between infrastructure and applications.

February 7, 2017

NETWORKING

Introducing DevNet Create: The Developer Conference Where Applications Meet Infrastructure

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We’ve grown DevNet over the last 3 years and, thanks to you, we have had tremendous success together. We feel that it’s now time to work with the broader developer community to drive an important industry transformation in front of us: how modern applications and modern infrastructure can work better together to help society and […]

November 2, 2016

NETWORKING

CMX Lets the University of British Columbia Improve Comfort and Save Money

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It seems almost counterintuitive. How can a solution that improves the campus experience for students and staff also save the university hundreds of thousands of dollars annually? Better and cheaper rarely co-exist in the same idea. But with Cisco CMX, they do. The University of British Columbia has always been a forward-looking institution, looking for […]

Building an Experience-Centric Network

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By Melissa Zelyez, Cisco Marketing Manager Why are 50% of all businesses open to changing cloud providers? Service providers can be the top choice, if they prepare now… Today most businesses currently using cloud services do so through cloud providers, value-added resellers (VAR), system integrators, and other vendors; not through direct relationships with service providers. […]

May 13, 2016

CLOUD

Don’t Fix it, Throw it Away! Disposable Infrastructure @ OSCON 2016

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Next week at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Austin, Texas, I’ll be teaching systems administrators and developers how to throw away their servers each time they want to make a simple change. Sounds ridiculous? That’s what I thought as first too. But ask any experienced sys-admin how many times a “simple, one line […]

April 7, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Trash Talking: What is Your City’s Digital Transformation IQ?

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Removing city trash daily requires tremendous logistics. But it’s not just a question of curbing bad aromas; it’s an issue of public health and sanitation. Cities are becoming smarter about deploying city services, going through a digital transformation to improve citizens’ quality of life and more. Read on ...

January 21, 2016

SECURITY

Why Aging Infrastructure Is a Growing Problem

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Defending a network against threats of growing complexity requires a mix of technology and policies that are as sophisticated as the campaigns created by attackers. A necessary component to an efffective defense includes tackling the low-hanging fruit—that is, basic tasks such as patching vulnerabilities and updating old software. However, as we relate in the Cisco […]