This is Part 2 of our blog series about NG-Firewalls. See Part 1 here. Part 2: Enter Threat-Focused NG-Firewall What does a Threat-focused NG-Firewall do differently? Just about everything. Let's compare the most popular NGFW...
Everyone knows that data is important. Modern enterprises compete with data and win with the agility and insight it provides. Thus the "Big Data Era" as metaphorically captured by terms such at Data Lakes, Data Reservoirs, Data Sw...
I am a millennial and my entire financial life fits in my front pocket. Whether I am setting up automatic credit card payments, paying a friend back for a dinner he paid for, making my monthly rent payment, or buying the latest Wa...
Co-authored with Dani Schrakamp We're ready, are you? We are now in an age so normalized by the proliferation of technology that the United Nations has declared access to the Internet a basic human right and securing ubiquitous ac...
In case you haven't heard, 802.11ac Wave 2 is here. We've been shipping our first 802.11ac Wave 2 access points, the Aironet 1850 and 1830 since the the middle of 2015 and the list of 802.11ac Wave 2 client devices is growing almo...
This blog was originally published on the Cisco Learning Network. I'm not an engineer. I'm not technical. I didn't pursue STEM studies in university, either. So, why am I making so much noise and effort around getting more g...
Who likes Tomorrowland? Some people go to the futuristic part of Disney's theme parks for the rides. The rides are certainly fun, but I go because it makes me think of the future. Perhaps that's why people post so many predictions...
Having spent several days last week at the Internet of Things World Forum in Dubai, I am more convinced than ever that the Internet of Things (IoT) is not some hyped-up futuristic vision of whatcouldbe, but a present-day reality t...
One of my favorite things to do is to talk to Cisco customers, partners and industry analysts about common trends they are seeing in their business and the overall market. We look at trends similarly to why we conduct analytics, ...
Luuuuuke, I am your Faaather. And also, I need coffee.Cisco employees are really excited about the upcomingStar Warsmovie,The Force Awakens. Especially me. Opening night. I'm there. Which got me thinking, maybe I could channel Yod...
One of the things I really believe strongly is that modern SaaS software development -both the practices and code it produces -are significantly different from traditional enterprise premises-based software development. Yet, I fin...
Over the last few years, I've watched cloud technology evolve beyond the cloud. Today, many of the companies I work with need flexible access to IT resources and services outside their on-premises data center. With "hybrid" cloud ...