Trends, perspectives and insights on enterprise networking and automation.
Cisco’s Connected Technical Assistance Center (TAC) has digitized its network engineers’ real-life troubleshooting experience into thousands of scripts which can be run anytime an issue comes up.
NetBrain and Cisco’s TAC program have teamed up to allow NetBrain users to access these scripts via API integration and leverage NetBrain automation to collect device data and create a Dynamic Network Map to visualize the diagnostic results.
Today’s application performance management (APM) tools have gotten really good at identifying problems really fast. The leaders of the APM pack now take the approach of monitoring things more holistically from the user experience vantage point so you get alerted to slowdowns before customers are affected. There’s virtually no time…
Today, we are pleased to announce Cisco ACI-NetBrain integration that is aimed to provide enhanced network operations to application-centric data centers enabled by Cisco ACI. As a scalable and versatile visibility and automation platform, NetBrain integrates with Cisco ACI to provide extensive visualization and automation for operational workflows such as…
The network doesn’t take days off, and in my time as a network engineer, I learned this the hard way. Years ago, I was at a backyard barbecue when my old boss called, frantic: A critical file server was locked up as the likely result of a ransomware attack. I…
Documenting a network is one of those IT practices that has been done manually since the early days of networking. The term “network documentation” conjures visions of diagrams and stacks…
If you’re like most network engineers, near the top of your list of Most Frustrating Tasks is trying to troubleshoot a problem that’s no longer in play. We’ve all been there:…
NetBrain founder and CEO Lingping Gao presented his Think Tank session, “Hidden Challenges of Network Automation in the SDN Age and Beyond,” at Cisco Live 2018 in Orlando. This post…
According to recent Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research, the average enterprise network management team spends 75% of its time troubleshooting problems. Specifically, they spend about 35% of their time firefighting…
Twice a month, we highlight five popular news stories from the world of networking, security and automation. Here are the top five stories from the last two weeks: Get the…
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange, ch-ch-changes… …
Last week, thousands of people attended CiscoLive US in Orlando – the premier event for network professionals around the globe. It was five days of intense learning, making new connections…
Twice a month, we highlight five popular news stories from the world of networking, security and automation. Here are the top five stories from the last two weeks: Overcoming Visibility…
Today’s application performance management (APM) tools have gotten really good at identifying problems really fast. The leaders of the APM pack now take the approach of monitoring things more holistically…