Empowering the four IT personas using Cisco DNA Center with Rings of Power

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There are many variations of the “Law of Constant Change”; while they all have their own spin on it, the common thread is that change is constant and that it needs to be harnessed. When looking at changes and disruptions in technology, it comes as no surprise that...

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Quick automation wins with Cisco DNA Center

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With the investment into today’s modern and agile networks, many IT organizations are searching for intelligent tools that can help simplify the complexity that comes with the advanced capabilities of today’s networks and keep up with the business demands. Topping off the complex challenges, many organizations are facing...

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How To Do DevSecOps for Kubernetes

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In this article, we’ll provide an overview of security concerns related to Kubernetes, looking at the built-in security capabilities that Kubernetes brings to the table.Kubernetes at the center of cloud-native softwareSince Docker popularized containers, most non-legacy large-scale systems use containers as their unit of deployment, in both the...

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What DevSecOps Means for Your CI/CD Pipeline

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The CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipeline is a major ingredient of the DevOps recipe. As a DevSecOps practitioner, you need to consider the security implications for this pipeline. In this article, we will examine key items to think about when it comes to DevSecOps and CI/CD.The type of...

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A Framework for Continuous Security

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Technology is at the core of business today. Maintaining the resiliency of critical data, assets, systems, and the network is mission-critical; crucial to meeting business goals. As a result, development operations (DevOps) professionals must continuously improve the overall resilience —along with the security posture — of workloads, software,...

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How do you gauge software quality before deployment?

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Business leaders often question software development processes to identify their effectiveness, validate if release quality is maintained across all products and features, and to ensure smooth customer deployments. While providing data from multiple perspectives, I hear teams struggling to respond in a meaningful way. In particular, it’s hard...

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Unify NetOps and SecOps with SD-WAN Cloud Management

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CIOs know that ubiquitous connectivity across domains—campus, branch, cloud, and edge, wired or wireless—is a baseline requirement for building a digital enterprise. But, as CISOs know, as the network fabric spreads to encompass devices and location-agnostic data and compute resources, the need for end-to-end integrated security is equally...

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Tune in: “Demystifying Cisco Orchestration for Infrastructure as Code”

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Automating the software development life-cycle DevOps teams are becoming more agile, reducing costs, and delivering a superb customer experience by automating the software development life-cycle. Cisco Orchestration solutions extend the benefits of automation to the entire stack. Each layer of the underlying infrastructure is delivered as Code (IaC)....

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