Author: Rita Younger

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

August 10, 2023

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

April 5, 2021

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

Believe in Yourself. Keynote at Woman’s Hackathon.

November 7, 2019

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.

Ansible is NOT Programming

July 30, 2018

I thought I knew exactly what Red Hat did, and I “knew” Ansible was programming.  After all I spent 2 weeks doing an engineering rotation with the INSBU at Cisco.  We learned about Puppet, Chef, JSON, Python and Ansible.  I am a network engineer, I grouped all of those terms together. I 1000% support the… More Ansible is NOT Programming