Vijoy Pandey, vice president of emerging technologies and Incubation for Cisco, explains why automation has become an absolute IT necessity. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Michael Vizard: Hey, guys, thanks for the throw. We’re here with Vijoy Pandey, who’s vice president of emerging technology and incubation for Cisco. We’re […]
Will Splunk be Gobbled up by Cisco?
Word on the street is that Cisco and Splunk are in discussions about a possible acquisition. Splunk, the technology monitoring, search and analytics company could be acquired by Cisco—originally a networking company but now a complex hardware and software conglomerate. Splunk has generated quite a reputation as a ‘dealer’ over the years. The company, much […]
Cisco CEO Addresses World’s Largest Cybersecurity Conference: “Security Must Be Simple, Intelligent and Everywhere”
San Jose, CA, May 17, 2021 — Cisco, the leader in enterprise security, today unveiled innovations to further its journey to radically simplify and deliver end-to-end security, across users, devices, networks, applications and data. Announcements today improve Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with greater visibility across network, endpoint and cloud. New innovations expand Cisco’s vision for […]
Cisco Leans on HashiCorp to Manage Infrastructure as Code
HashiCorp and Cisco today announced a Cisco Intersight Service for Terraform offering based on HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Business software. Cisco Intersight is an IT operations management platform that enables IT teams to manage IT infrastructure across a hybrid cloud computing environment. Open source Terraform tools have emerged as the dominant tool for provisioning infrastructure as […]
Cisco Revamps Portfolio at the Network Edge
Cisco today announced a series of Catalyst offerings that combine the functionality of a secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and a router in a single platform. Archana Khetan, senior director of product management for enterprise routing and SD-WAN infrastructure within the Intent Based Networking Group at Cisco, said the Catalyst 8000 series is made […]
Cisco Aligns With Google to Meld DevOps and NetOps
The extension of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Google to drive tighter integration between their respective software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) offerings and cloud platforms promises to accelerate the convergence of NetOps and DevOps. John Apostolopoulos, vice president and CTO for Intent-Based Networking Group at Cisco, said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic […]
DevOps Chats: App Attention Index and The Era of Digital Reflex, with AppDynamics
Application performance company AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco in 2017) recently released its 2019 edition of the App Attention Index Report. The 2019 report is subtitled The Era of Digital Reflex. Joining me on this episode of DevOps Chats is Steve Long, AppDynamics regional CTO and technology strategy. Digital connections are a near-constant. Interacting with our […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Arms Race Heats Up
A massive amount of capital is pouring into DevOps companies as organizations finally begin to realize the extent to which they depend on software. While Marc Andreesen may have penned his famous “Software Is Eating the World” opinion piece way back in 2011, it’s only now that many organizations are starting to realize they are […]
Cisco Extends Ansible Support to Advance DevOps
Cisco Systems announced today that it is further embracing the open source Ansible automation framework on its storage area network (SAN) platform as part of an effort to extend best DevOps practices to IT infrastructure. The latest version of the Cisco MDS 9700 platform modules automates tasks such as VSAN configuration, device-alias and zoning configuration. […]
DevOps Chat: DevOps and the Programmable Network with Cisco DevNet
Network technology has undergone its own transformation in parallel with cloud infrastructure, how we create software and the adoption of DevOps. SDN, NFV, virtual network appliances and an ever-expanding suite of APIs make network and security technologies much more accessible to developers. Network engineers’ worlds are rapidly changing, too. From highly skilled to associate-level, all […]