Design Your APIs with a UX Mindset

The ushering in of the app era has resulted in an increased focus on User Experience (UX) in practically every product, including those, like (say) networking products, that were traditionally considered as too technical to be simplified.  The “Consumerisation” of IT has led users, who are used to...

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Cisco Small and Medium Business Switch Portfolio Refresh

Big Game tonight with the Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs square off for the final game, Game 7, in Boston Garden! Always a great time of year with Basketball and Hockey Playoffs, Baseball Season is in high gear, tennis is happening in Barcelona, with Roland Garros...

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A New Type of WAN that Grows with Your Business

Wide Area Networking has seen disruption like never before in the past 5 years. The use of technology to transform how businesses interact with their customers and partners combined with the changing behavior of how employees connect and use the network is challenging existing WAN architectures. For those...

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Cisco Spark and Webex Platform Convergence: More than a Rebrand

The convergence of the Webex and Spark platforms is far more than just a rebrand. Significant technical work has gone into combining these platforms, and I wanted to highlight several of the key customer benefits that come as a result. ...

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New Partner Program Opportunities to Recognize Expertise and Reward for Success

This week we are in the Bahamas at Partner Connection Week, Cisco’s flagship mid-year partner event focused on partner technology enablement. Today we are sharing our progress on the partner programs we announced at last year’s Partner Summit. I am excited to announce a few new programs updates...

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New Cisco and ConnectWise Solution Helps MSPs Capitalize on the Growing Managed Security Services Opportunity

It’s a great time to be a managed service provider (MSP). Small businesses and enterprises alike are embracing managed services, and spending is expected to grow to $257.84 billionin 2022 with a CAGR of 11.1 percent. ...

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Increase Your Cross-Selling with the 3 P’s for Extended Enterprise

It doesn’t matter if you are an account manager or a customer success manager, you want to be a trusted advisor as your customer embarks on their digital journey.  Customers want personalized engagement with trusted partners, and it is important to be able to solve your customers’ business...

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ACI loves KVM and Red Hat Virtualization

Cisco ACI has provided integration with KVM in OpenStack environments quite for some time now. OpenStack is a great technology to implement Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) with uses cases for Private, Public and Telco clouds. But indeed Openstack provides a cloud platform, tailored to “cattle-type” of workloads, as opposed to...

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Redefining Security for the Modern Data Center in a Multicloud World

Global security challenges are ever-growing, especially with the rise of sophisticated threats. A growing concern for many of our customers is around security for today’s complex data centers. How do you keep data safe while you’re running applications in both on-prem data centers and in public, private, and...

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IcedID Banking Trojan teams up with Rovnix for distribution

In November 2017 security researchers reported a new banking Trojan known as “IcedID”. At the time of discovery IcedID was being distributed by Emotet. In late February and throughout March 2018 Cisco noticed an increase in IcedID infections being detected throughout the AMP ecosystem. Like in November 2017,...

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How to Deploy a UCS Manager Environment with Far Less Python Code

A co-worker sent me some infrastructure code to check out and get my opinion. The code was fine, but it was a lot of code… I mean a lot of code. Looking at the thousands of lines of purpose written code I started thinking that there could be...

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