Last week, I was acknowledged by the Alum Rock Counseling Center for my personal commitment to mentoring at-risk students. As I prepared my thank you remarks, I was reminded how much I value youth mentoring nonprofits su...
I recently wrote in my blog about a partner, WWT, that quickly developed a network replication solution across dual DC using the programming interface on the APIC. Our own development team, just published a complete manageme...
Most of you who've either purchased or delivered cloud services have been asked for an SLA (Service Level Agreement). I've seen SLAs that can be measured on inches of paper. Why so big? Just consider getting 10 people in a ...
The debate of what we should be learning seems to be a more frequent topic today. For instance, there's been a long-standing question for each new networker: after learning a little about routing and switching, does a relative new...
This post was authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Kevin Brooks Overview The use of macro enabled word documents has exploded over the last year, a primary example payload being Dridex. Last week, Talos researcher...
Many enterprises today want to build a private cloud to gain efficiencies such as on-demand service delivery and pay-as-you-go use of IT infrastructure services, all while maintaining control, accountability, and data sovereignty....
Who doesn't enjoy a vacation? And not just one day, but -four! What if there were a cloud service that saved you so much time, you could actually send all of London's working population on a 4-day vacation? Well, that's exactly wh...
In the era of digitalization, mobile, social and the Internet of Everything, Data Center and Cloud infrastructure are more and more representing a strategic business asset for organizations of all kind. Companies are looking...
I've been a huge fan of Cisco and NetApp's FlexPod since 2011, when I had the pleasure of working with it for the first time. We had just gotten two brand new UCS Chassis full of B-Series blades, and I was impressed wit...
Inspire and connect women, celebrate achievements, encourage more women into technical and leadership roles, recruit men to be advocates for women, make a measurable difference. We can't wait for the day when we don't have to talk...
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we'll be talking about the Cisco UCS E-Series with Cisco Technical Marketing Engineers Kishan Ramaswamy and Tony Banuelos. Listen to the Podcast. ...
Photo courtesy of Breville, USA, Creative Commons license.We talk to customers all the time that want to move to OpenStack, but the tools and processes they rely on just aren't ready. Or the policies around their applications or d...