I recently bought a Nest Hello to replace my perfectly good, near new, Ring Video Doorbell. The experience got me thinking about sunk cost in IT and how significantly it strangles the business and costs companies ridiculous amounts of money. When I first saw the Nest Hello, I had no…
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Intent Driven Architecture Part III: Policy Assurance
Here I am finally getting around to the third part of my blog on Intent Driven Architectures, but hey, what’s a year between friends. If you missed or forgot parts I and II the links are below: Intent Driven Architectures: WTF is Intent Intent Driven Architectures Part II: Policy Analytics…
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Best Practices of Women in Tech
The following is a guest post by Sara (Ms. Digital Diva) Today’s tech industry has a new face, and that face is female. Though traditionally male dominated, more and more women are making their mark as leaders in the tech field. Contributing not only to the continuous advancements we’re seeing…
Intent-Driven Data Center: A Brief Video Overview
Here’s a brief video overview of Intent-Driven data center. More blogs to come. Related posts: Intent Driven Architecture Part III: Policy Assurance Intent Driven Architectures: WTF is Intent? Video: Cisco ACI Overview Intent Driven Architecture Part II: Policy Analytics Data Center Analytics: A Can’t Live Without Technology
Intent Driven Architecture Part II: Policy Analytics
*** Disclaimer: Yes I work for a company that sells products in this category. You are welcome to assume that biases me and disregard this article completely. *** In my first post on Intent-Driven Architectures (http://www.definethecloud.net/intent-driven-architectures-wtf-is-intent/) I attempted to explain the basics of an Intent-Based, or Intent-driven approach. I also…
Intent Driven Architectures: WTF is Intent?
*** Disclaimer: I work for a vendor who has several offerings in the world of intent-based infrastructure. If you choose to assume that makes my opinion biased and irrelevant, that’s your mistake to make, and you can save time by skipping the rest of this post. *** *** Update at…
Data Center Analytics: A Can’t Live Without Technology
** There is a disclaimer at the bottom of this blog. You may want to read that first. ** Earlier in June (2016) Chuck Robbin’s announced the Cisco Tetration Analytics Appliance. This is a major push into a much needed space: Data Center Analytics. The appliance itself is a Big…
The Data Center Network OS – Cisco Open NXOS
The Insieme team (INSBU) at Cisco has been working hard for three years bringing some major advances to Cisco’s Nexus portfolio. The two key platforms we’ve developed are Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and the Nexus 9000 data center switching platform. One of the biggest projects and innovations we’ve focused…
Application Centric Infrastructure – The Platform
** I earn a paycheck as a Principle Engineer for the Cisco business unit responsible for ACI, Nexus 9000, and Nexus 3000. This means you may want to simply consider anything I have to say on the subject biased and or useless. Your call. ** I recently listened through a…
The Power of Fully Open Programmability With Cisco ACI
** Disclaimer: I work as a Principal Engineer for Cisco focused on ACI and Nexus 9000 products. Feel free to assume I have bias if you wish. ** One of the many things that make me passionate about Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure is the fully open programmable nature of…