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In January of this year LookingPoint Senior Solutions Architect, Chris Marshall, wrote a blog highlighting a technology we had just started hearing more about, SD-WAN. To recap, SD-WAN is an acronym for Software Defined Wide Area Network, and is a specific application of Software Defined Networking (SDN) that simplifies WAN management and connects enterprise networks. SD-WAN provides aggregation...

My wife and I had a baby recently which has been wonderful…save only for the lack of sleep it has brought us. Sitting up with our son and my wife at night has given me not only insight into the amazing amount of work mom’s do but, also some time to think (and catch up Golden Girls re-runs). It was still dark out, sometime early this morning, while my wife rocked our young son to sleep (again),...

On Monday Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens, from the University of Leuven, published a paper disclosing a series of vulnerabilities that affect the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocols. These vulnerabilities described a set of scenarios where a malicious user can perform a man-in-the-middle replay attack on wireless users connected to the network using...

I was recently called in to assist a customer with identifying the cause of slow performance for an application within their environment. I don’t know about you but I love a good networking who done it, so I could not resist accepting the case. The following blog post documents my experience and findings while working this investigation that will from here on out be known as the “The Case of the...

In this Fireside Chat CEO, Sean Barr, sits down with Consulting Services SME, Dominic Zeni, to discuss Cisco’s introduction of software defined networking for the access layer of campus and branch office networks: SD-Access. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this Fireside Chat.

Earlier this year Cisco released their new Digital Network Architecture (DNA), which they are calling “intent-based networking”. Cisco DNA is an open, programmable architecture that turns business intent into business results, and is the foundation for The Network. Intuitive. Cisco also released their Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) solution, which is the “industry’s first intent-based...

Rejuvenated, inspired, and re-energized. Those three words best describe how I felt leaving INBOUND 2017. And, what perfect timing for a new gust of wind in my marketing sails! Every year in June and July we see a burst of new energy in our industry as Cisco releases new technologies at Cisco Live, and as they close their fiscal year. As that momentum begins to slow a fresh burst of energy and...

The final day of INBOUND 2017 kicked off with a keynote featuring Pixar Animation Studios co-founder, Dr. Ed Catmull. Catmull shared his success and failures at Pixar, as well as his insights about creativity today. He discussed the importance of change, responding to challenges, listening, empathizing, and making mistakes. The goal when founding Pixar was to build a sustainable culture. He...

Day 2 of INBOUND 2017 has come to an end, and it has been one for the books. The day began at 6:45am in line to see Michelle Obama’s keynote at 9am. All I can say about that is her keynote was worth the wait! I could write an entire blog about her insights, demeanor, and control of the room, but for the sake of this post I will keep it to my key takeaways.

INBOUND is HubSpot’s annual marketing conference, and I am in Boston this week for INBOUND take two! The conference kicked off last night with an inspirational keynote featuring best-selling author Brenē Brown. She spoke about her new book, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone. She also talked about how true belonging doesn’t require us to change who...