Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is a popular Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) feature integrating network fabric operations with a virtual machine domain, creating a single experience to configure, manage, and troubleshoot workloads spanning both the physical and virtual realms. Leveraging VMM, enterprises can take the first step in unifying their network and compute teams to expedite time-to-value for common network changes, prevent human error, and provide unprecedented visibility to the virtual domain enabling use-cases like classification, policy redirect, and day 2 workflow automati ..read more

Network complexity has magnified due to shifting business models, competitive markets, and multi-vendor capabilities. Service Provider customers and network operators understand the importance of network automation but are struggling to manage complex networks, build trust through intent and validation, and drive operational efficiency. This podcast would be a good opportunity to: -Understand the barriers to Automation adoption. - How to get started with Network Automation leveraging AI/ML Operations, Tools, and Processes (Cisco Crosswork Network Automation, NSO, Workflow Manager etc.) -How to ..read more

In this episode of Cisco Champions, learn how to harness the power of SD-WAN by combining it with converged, cloud security capabilities that only a SASE architecture offers. Listen and learn to discover use cases uniquely designed to deliver anywhere connectivity, always-on cloud security, and an improved remote worker experience, from anywhere. Resources: Visit this page to learn more about Cisco’s turnkey, unified SASE solution, Cisco+ Secure Connect: https://meraki.cisco.com/products/cisco-plus-secure-connect/ Cisco Guest Avinash Ramesh, Technical Marketing Engineering Technical Leader, Ci ..read more

In this episode of Cisco Champion Radio, the discussion revolves around a topic that is both timely and critical. Join the Cisco Champions, as they share their insights, experiences, and strategies for introducing children to the world of technology. From coding basics to cybersecurity, the Cisco Champions delve into the myriad ways to ignite a passion for technology in the younger generation. Drawing from their personal journeys as both tech enthusiasts and parents, they explore the challenges and opportunities in guiding children towards a future-ready understanding of technology. This episo ..read more

Cisco Intersight is an infrastructure lifecycle management solution, delivered as-a-service or as a private virtual appliance, that provides a single dashboard to see, control, and automate your compute, storage, and networking infrastructure—wherever it is—from one place. Modernizing infrastructure management also means automating deployment and configuration workflows along with other tasks that in the past were manual. Join the Cisco Champions and guests as they discuss Cisco Intersight and its latest capabilities: -Monitoring and Metric Explorer: Historical and real-time visibility or reso ..read more

Network administrators need reliability and flexibility in their network. The Cisco Catalyst 9166D1 provides an integrated directional, antenna in a Wi-Fi 6E certified access point. This solves the challenge of providing focused area signal without external antennas for areas with high ceilings like auditoriums, warehouses, airplane hangars and other large or industrial buildings. Tune in to this episode to learn more about this Cisco wireless innovation and how this can help network administrators provide predictable, reliable performance and flexible configuration. Learn more about the Catal ..read more

Industrial organizations are fundamentally changing how they operate and deliver value to customers. Industry 4.0 holds the promise of bringing in more software controls to improve product quality, reduce waste, enhance sustainability, boost worker safety and cybersecurity, and increase operational efficiencies to reduce costs. Digital transformation is the necessary first step that helps collect the operations data required for analytical operations and industrial switches are key to building such networks. Tune into this episode of Cisco Champion Radio to learn how highly capable industrial ..read more

Energy-hungry and heat-generating data -center servers and switches draw up to 2 percent of all electricity in the United States alone, and energy consumption can represent up to 30 percent of data center costs. There is a focus on greater data center sustainability and optimizing energy usage should be a major concern for all forward-looking organizations. With Cisco Nexus Dashboard, the goal is to empower customers to achieve more energy efficient data centers, forecast energy consumption, emissions and costs, while meeting the ever-increasing operational requirements of their datacenter app ..read more

Running a distributed application services infrastructure is onerous. IT leaders in NetOps, DevOps, SecOps, and CloudOps need a consistent way to administer technology for business growth. The Cisco Meraki vMX virtual security and SD-WAN appliance enables businesses to seamlessly deploy, manage, and scale application services anywhere, on any major hyperscaler or hypervisor, in any region. From security, access, and configuration, to one-touch deployments via low-code automations known as quick starts, learn how businesses can create a hybrid cloud to seamlessly manage and deploy services arou ..read more

A phone system is a lifeline for any business. In this hybrid world, business communication is constantly evolving, and so are the expectations for your customers. More businesses are shifting their collaboration and connectivity workloads from on-prem to the cloud, as they look for a more secure, reliable, and scalable communications infrastructure. Trusted by over 12M+ worldwide users, Webex Calling is a modern and complete enterprise-grade business phone system in the cloud, delivering the flexibility needed to support and simplify the “work from anywhere, on any device” promise. Resources ..read more