Earlier this month Cisco released their 2017 Mid-year Cybersecurity Report. Cisco has been publishing this comprehensive cybersecurity report for nearly a decade with the goal to keep security teams updated on the latest cybersecurity threats and steps they can take to improve security and cyber-resiliency. The latest report highlights the “rapid evolution of threats and the magnitude of the...

Recently I deployed Cisco’s AMP for Endpoints for a 50-user organization. For the uninitiated, AMP for Endpoints is Cisco’s cloud based, enterprise grade, advanced malware protection software that is deployed to each end device in the network. Each endpoint reports back to the central cloud controller and is managed by the controller. Cisco integrated AMP for Endpoints with Cisco’s ThreatGRID to...

In this Fireside Chat CEO, Sean Barr, sits down with Network Engineer, Lee Jolly, to discuss Data Protection and the cloud data management solutions Rubrik offers to customers. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this Fireside Chat.  

In my recent Fireside Chat on the subject of Data Protection, I had a lot of good things to say about Rubrik as a Data Protection/Data Management platform. In this post, I’d like to walk through some scenarios you might come across in your environment and how Rubrik makes handling those scenarios very easy.

Cisco Live 2017 has come and gone. Our team of engineers arrived in Las Vegas in style, spent the week attending presentations, networking, listening to keynote speakers, exploring the new technologies at the World of Solutions, and came back to California with an overload of information. Now that they have had some time to digest everything they took in at Cisco Live they are ready to share...

We’ve been hearing a lot about NVMe Solid State Drives (SSD) and we’re just starting to see it introduced by many of the of server and storage vendors. NVMe which stands for Non-Volatile Memory express is a logical device interface specification for accessing non-volatile storage media attached via a PCI Express (PCIe) bus. You can think of NVMe as being the successor of SATA SSD. NVMe is a...

Software-Defined Access 

By now I’m sure you have heard the new product announcements from Cisco around Software Defined Access (SD-Access). This announcement is a departure from the typical “new box” announcements that we are familiar with from the networking behemoth. Yes, there are new boxes, but this announcement is much more than that - it is the beginning of a new era for networking. Cisco...

In this Fireside Chat CEO, Sean Barr, sits down with Tegile Co-Founder, Justin Cheen, to discuss Tegile Storage and the solutions it offers to customers. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this Fireside Chat.  

The two primary storage architectures in many companies today are a Storage Area Network (SAN) or a Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution. Traditionally a SAN provides Block storage while a NAS provides File level storage. It’s also worth noting that internal server storage is making a comeback with the advent of software-defined storage (SDS). I’ll save the software-defined storage (SDS),...

It's been 4 amazing days in Las Vegas at Cisco Live 2017. Day 4 may have been shorter than days 1-3, but that didn't stop Cisco from going out with a bang! Today didn't start off with a keynote - it started with some great showcase sessions: