network operations
Are You Going About the Talent Shortage Wrong? It’s Time to Stop MacGyvering
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Transforms your security teams from business blockers to business enablers with Cisco SecureX - the industry broadest security platform that unifies visibility, enables automation, and simplifies security
Automating Your Network Operations: Focus on Outcomes
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Automation should begin with a thoughtful process that identifies the most important outputs of your infrastructure and what the current bottlenecks are in producing those outputs.
Automating your Network Operations, Part 5 – Just the Facts
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To come up with a template or model for all your network devices before you automate any of them would delay the benefits of automation.
Automating Your Network Operations, Part 4 – Dude, Where’s My Data?
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If you are relatively new to Ansible, you might have noticed that the playbook examples in my last blog did not have any variables defined in them. Common examples often...
Automating Your Network Operations, Part 3 – Data-Driven Ansible
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The combination of YANG and NETCONF give us structure and determinism to enable network programmability, and give us several operational advantages over CLI.
Automating Your Network Operations, Part 2 – Data Models
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Before I get into data models, I want to take a slight diversion to incorporate some of the feedback that I received from the first blog. It was pointed out...
Automating Your Network Operations, Part 1 – Ansible Basics
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New blog series gets you beyond the hype and simple demonstrations, and lets you dive more deeply into how and why to automate your network operations.
Smart Services Build a Better Business Model
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Cisco Software-Enabled Services Help Transform Network Operations Imagine that you’re a network operations director for a large company. You’re pleased that your management has invested millions of dollars in Cisco equipment to provide a world-class network on which to drive the company’s business. Now, your company is counting on you to keep it running smoothly […]
Behind the WiFi Network @ Mobile World Congress 2014: Site Surveys
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In my last blog I discussed setting the stage in preparation for the Wi-Fi network for Mobile World Congress 2014 which supported more than 80k devices over a span of...