Consistent, Unified, and Simplified Experience with the Cisco Cloud Networking Platform

At Cisco Live 2023, the Cisco Cloud Networking Platform was announced.  At WWT, we have been providing feedback to Cisco that a simplified, predictable, consistent experience needs to be available across the campus, data center, and cloud.  Cisco has heard this message from WWT, other partners, and customers and is moving in this direction. Simplification… More Consistent, Unified, and Simplified Experience with the Cisco Cloud Networking Platform

Intelligent Network Automation with Gluware

The data center network used to be at a single location. Server, storage, and network were each siloed with separate management.  Today’s network is very different; organizations utilize multiple data centers and multiple public clouds. It truly is a hybrid world. A common misconception is that as the public cloud gains in popularity that the… More Intelligent Network Automation with Gluware

The Secure, Automated, Modern Data Center

Application availability for all users, anytime, from any location, on any cloud, is critical in meeting business needs. Businesses can no longer afford planned or unplanned downtime; applications must be available 24 x 7. When a data center network has an outage, all servers and applications are affected. Statista.com reports that in 2019 survey of… More The Secure, Automated, Modern Data Center

Digging into Anchor_DNS

Anchor DNS: The developers of TrickBot created anchor_dns, a DNS tunnel, as a new tool to send and receive information from the victims’ machine. Trickbot, a popular banking trojan, acts as a trojan horse for other malware. Anchor_dns was first observed in early 2019. Anchor_dns acts as a backdoor that allows victims machines to send… More Digging into Anchor_DNS

Believe in Yourself. Keynote at Woman’s Hackathon.

Rita Younger is an industry-recognized expert in Software Defined Networking and Data Center Security. She speaks at many events around the globe and is passionate about promoting technical careers to women and minorities. With nearly 30 years as a technical woman, she shares that journey with college students as well as IT professionals hoping to inspire them to continue to pursue technical careers. Rita is the founder of www.TotalPackets.com… More Believe in Yourself. Keynote at Woman’s Hackathon.

Data-as-a-Service by Hammerspace

Several companies have claimed to have software-defined storage solutions; however, these solutions were not truly software-defined.    Hammerspace founder David Flynn admits that he is solving a problem that he is partially responsible for creating.    David was one of the two founders of a company the eventually became Fusion-io; SanDisk acquired Fusion-io in July 2014. Serving… More Data-as-a-Service by Hammerspace

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

The importance of community and collaboration in the technology community. Tech Field day is much more than three or four days of vendor presentations. Tech Field day is a community of bloggers, podcasters, webcasters, speakers, who have become industry influencers, we are a community that shares knowledge, support one another, and lift each other up.… More A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats