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WWT Sets a New Standard for Enterprise-Ready AI with Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
Discover how WWT, Cisco and NVIDIA are giving enterprises a clear, secure path to turn AI ambition into real-world impact with the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA modular reference design, supported by proven expertise and ready-to-use resources.
SSL Certificate Validity Changes 2025: How to Prepare Your Business Now
Beginning in March 2026 SSL/TLS certificate will begin expiring after 200 days and will continue to be reduced each year until 2029 when validity will be down to just 47 days. This change aims to enhance security, reduce exposure from compromised certificates, and encourage automation, but will require significant changes in certificate management processes for many companies. Organizations should begin preparing now for shorter certificate lifespans and more frequent domain validations to avoid security risks and ensure reliable digital interactions
PAN-OS and EDLs - Everything You Wanted to Know about External Dynamic Lists
Looking to implement external dynamic lists in your Palo Alto NGFW or Prisma Access? This post will answer all your questions about how EDLs work in PAN-OS to dynamically improve your security posture.
Performance Benchmarking: Bun vs. C# vs. Go vs. Node.js vs. Python
I took 5 runtimes and built functionally identical REST APIs with each of them. Then I ran load tests for each application to measure their performance.
Introduction to XQL: Writing Your First Query
Learning a new programming or query language can be daunting, but if you've used the boolean options in a web search engine before, you can master XQL queries in no time. Like with web searches, we start with a hypothesis of our search, add filters to limit our results, and then validate the results that are returned against our hypothesis.
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SentinelOne FY27 Sales Kick Off Recap
Fresh off its sales kickoff, SentinelOne is going all in on AI security, unified attack surface protection, and the Autonomous SOC. The mid-market enterprise detection and response (EDR) narrative is outdated. This is about securing AI at scale and reshaping modern security operations.
The True Cost of Observability
Balancing uptime and observability is crucial for IT leaders. While extreme availability minimizes costly downtime, it demands significant investment. Observability tools can reduce outages but may inflate costs. Decision-makers must weigh the benefits of reliability against costs, aligning investments with business value and risk tolerance to achieve optimal outcomes.
Running a True Cloud Operating Model
Most organizations modernize infrastructure, but few operate like a cloud. The difference lies in observability, automation, security and operating discipline. Learn how combining these layers turns a technology platform into a true cloud operating model that delivers agility, accountability and measurable business value.
The Lawn Mower Metaphor: Getting Real Value from Windsurf Without Cutting the Flowers
If you're a software engineer navigating fast-turnaround proof-of-concept projects, this post explores how Windsurf's AI coding agent, Cascade, can accelerate development without breaking what already works. Using a "lawn mower" metaphor, it covers two key techniques: understanding the codebase before writing code, and executing implementation plans one deliberate step at a time.
Platformizing the AI Decade with Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks' recent acquisitions signal a structural shift from portfolio integration to true platformization for the AI decade. By securing AI pipelines, embedding identity enforcement, converging observability, and governing autonomous endpoints, the platform aligns to machine-speed risk—positioning enterprises to architect resilient, future-ready security rather than react to disruption.
Network Automation with Nokia and Red Hat OpenShift
Nokia's Event Driven Automation (EDA) is a cloud-native platform that leverages data center fabric automation and AI Operations to simplify the management of network layers across physical switching, hypervisors and infrastructure management. By using an intent-based approach for network lifecycle management, EDA supports multiple vendors and integrates with solutions such as Red Hat OpenShift and Netbox Labs.
Why Modern Cloud WLANs Are Re-Centralizing the Data Plane
Modern cloud-managed WLANs are reintroducing centralized data-plane aggregation to improve scalability, simplify operations, and enhance roaming. Cisco's Campus Gateway exemplifies this hybrid model by combining cloud control with centralized tunneling, enabling cleaner segmentation and more efficient campus and branch network architectures at both large and small scales.
Unlocking the Power of AI Coding Assistants
AI coding assistants are transforming software development by boosting productivity, enhancing code quality and facilitating continuous learning. These tools not only automate repetitive tasks but also provide insightful guidance, enabling developers to work smarter and more creatively.
Building for the Result: A Guide to Inference Architecture - Part 1
This document provides a comprehensive guide to designing efficient AI inference architectures, focusing on optimizing hardware and system design for real-time model deployment rather than training.
* Inference focus over training: Inference drives AI product value and requires less inter-connectivity than training, allowing cost-efficient architectures by removing unnecessary training overhead.
* Guidance for cost-effective inference: Selecting suitable GPUs, optimizing models, and designing tailored data center solutions are key to achieving low cost per token and reliable inference performance.
Stop Stacking Boxes. Start Designing Security.
Back-to-back firewalls were effective 15-20 years ago, but in today's encrypted, identity-driven and rapidly evolving threat landscape, they add cost and complexity without meaningful protection. Modern security replaces duplicated perimeters with platform-integrated NGFW enforcement, segmentation and coordinated prevention—delivering stronger, measurable defense through intelligent design rather than stacked legacy controls.
Get Hands-On with Army GEMSS Triage Support
Discover how Army GEMSS Triage Support helps Army IT teams quickly resolve complex Cisco technology challenges before the contract year ends. Learn what triage is, how to submit a request and why now is the time to use your remaining triage weeks to strengthen your network and mission readiness.
Using DEX to Mitigate Rising EUC Device Costs and Hardware Shortages in the Age of AI
In a landscape of rising costs and limited supply, IT leaders face the challenge of maintaining productivity and innovation. Digital Employee Experience (DEX) tools offer a strategic advantage, enabling data-driven decisions to extend device lifecycles, optimize hardware investments, and leverage virtualization, transforming endpoint management into a business optimization exercise.
AI Agents are Becoming the New Digital Teammates
AI agents revolutionize work by automating repetitive tasks, freeing time for strategic, creative and human-centric activities. They integrate seamlessly into existing workflows, enhancing productivity without replacing human judgment. Embrace AI to focus on high-value tasks, amplify output and gain a competitive edge in the evolving workplace.
Storage Automation with Red Hat OpenShift and NetApp
Deploying Red Hat OpenShift with NetApp Trident enables efficient storage management for stateful applications. By configuring persistent storage using local or shared options, administrators can optimize resources for AI, databases and virtual machines. This guide simplifies the setup of storage classes and volume snapshots for seamless integration and scalability.
Manufacturing at the EDGE: SCADA Instrumentation, Model Context Protocol and Agentic Design Patterns
Modern manufacturing is evolving towards data-centric, automated and intelligent systems that require contextualized operational data streaming from IoT-based edge devices converging with IT networks for adaptive real-time decision-making. MCP offers a structured approach to managing and interpreting diverse data streams, while SCADA systems serve as the core industrial instrumentation integrated with agentic methods and advanced inferencing to enhance manufacturing processes.
Automating Third-Party Risk with Dataminr + Cortex XSOAR
The gap between collecting threat feeds and applying real-world threat intelligence to your environment is where most programs fail. Security teams know something happened, but struggle to detect it early, determine relevance, and trigger consistent response actions. Integrating Dataminr's AI-powered real-time threat intelligence with Cortex XSOAR enables your SOC to be ahead of physical and cyber threats correlated to your environment.
When Identity Becomes the Battlefield: Why Palo Alto Networks + CyberArk Changes the Map
Palo Alto Networks' acquisition of CyberArk marks a structural shift in cybersecurity, making Identity Security a core platform pillar alongside Network and SecOps. By unifying privilege, machine and AI identity protection, the move accelerates platformization and operational resilience.
MWC Barcelona 2026: Embracing the Future of AI in Telecom and Enterprise
Join us for a preview of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 Barcelona, including insights from WWT's AI-work in the telecom and enterprise verticals.
The AI Adoption Gap Isn't Technical. It's Human.
At the Cisco AI Summit, multiple leaders pointed to a growing gap between what AI can do and how organizations are absorbing it. This gap is not because the technology isn't ready, but because organizations haven't changed how people work, collaborate and build trust around AI.
Moving Healthcare from AI Pilots to Enterprise AI-at-Scale
This will be the year healthcare moves decisively from AI experimentation to scaled, governed, enterprise AI embedded across clinical and operational functions with measurable ROI and impact.