In the ever-changing world of enterprise branch environments, a high number of businesses are planning to migrate their WAN to the Internet. To be exact, Nemertes Research (Benchmark 2012–13 Emerging WAN Trends) estimates that number to be close to
“Location, Location, Location” is what you need to keep in mind for real estate in the physical world. But in today’s enterprise environment where everything is virtual and many critical apps are in the data center or cloud, the most important thing
Cloud services and SaaS applications is enabling customers to accelerate their business processes and improve employee productivity while lowering their total IT spending. The Cisco IWAN solution is helping organizations adopt cloud applications with
If you have a Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) in your branch – which most companies do – you won’t want to miss the April 23rdwebinar on hidden capabilities of the ISR. These routers are the Swiss army knife of networking, and come loaded with
For the last 3 weeks, my colleagues have written on the topic of IWAN and its various components. Ido wrote about the basics (and more) about IWAN, Kiran on how to get twice the bandwidth with PfR, and Hector on how Glue Networks improves the IWAN
Network Operations Centers can be somber places. I’ve seen quite a few during my last two decades in technology. To monitor and manage a vast network is equal parts nerve racking and mind numbing boredom as you stare at wall-to-wall screens, waiting
How many times have we done something for others? Something for people we don’t even know. We all love doing things either for ourselves, family or friends but participating in a cause, which is entirely for people who do not currently enjoy the
What is all of this talk coming from Cisco of using Internet links to run an Enterprise-class network? Has Cisco lost its mind? We’re taught from the time we’re young Network Engineers sitting on our parents’ knees that Enterprise Networks are
It goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway): reliability is important, as well as ensuring that you have a backup plan to continue that reliability. Just yesterday as I was embarking on my 50-mile commute into the office, I discovered that one of
