What is Cisco SMARTnet Alternative Maintenance and Support
Cisco server maintenance, in addition to SmartNet services, is a reliable way of protecting your data and IT support. These are award-winning and robust services that ...
The Edge
Welcome to The Edge. This is where we share news, tips and insights from across the IT industry. With each post, we’re educating our customers on the potential of their networks.
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Fighting Consumerism in the Network
Each year, editors of Britain’s Collins Dictionary select a word of the year; the one word that they believe best epitomizes the global trends and culture of that year. ...
Used Network Equipment – How Can Network Managers Benefit?
Decisions, especially regarding network equipment purchases, are rarely cut and dried. Aside from the belief that Moore’s law will continue to drive higher and higher ...
What’s Driving Your Network Equipment Purchases?
Whether it’s network equipment, pickup trucks or toothpaste, the new product adoption curve remains nearly unchanged. Statistically speaking, about 2.5 percent of ...
DNA and SD WAN Critical Security Vulnerability Notice
A new security vulnerability pushed Cisco to urge enterprise administrators to install critical security updates. As always, a SMARTnet contract is not necessary to ...
Tariff Update on China's Imports
May 10, 2019 Tariff increase to 25% scheduled to impact switching and routing hardware, as well as phones. Costs to end-users on products manufactured in and imported ...
Cisco’s New Smart Licensing
Simplifying the Cisco Software Experience I guess the biggest question that I have is for who? Is the software experience being simplified for Cisco? Or, its end-users? ...
Network Hardware - How to Manage to Prevent Waste
Thomas Edison put it this way, “Waste is worse than loss …. Every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of ...
Cisco Issues a “Critical” Security Advisory for their Nexus 9K Series
Per Cisco: “The vulnerability is due to the presence of a default SSH key pair that is present in all devices. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by opening an ...