

Michael Cooney
Senior Editor
Michael Cooney is a Senior Editor with Network World who has written about the IT world for more than 25 years. He can be reached at michael_cooney@idg.com.

Cisco DevNet certifications: 10k awarded in first year
Cisco’s revamped DevNet certification portfolio focuses on network programing, automation and application development, and those software-based skills have never been more important.

Arista adds cloud, automation features
Arista introduces CloudVision 2021, which enables easier automation and management of workflows.

Gartner: Worldwide IT outlay to hit $4T in 2021
Gartner forecasts the biggest growth in IT spending this year will be on laptops, mobile phones and enterprise software.

Cisco streamlines, upgrades its SASE bundle
Cisco is making it simpler to buy its SASE offerings, adding passwordless authentication, and helping to customize the package through a SASE channel in its DevNet software-developer community.

Cisco brings net intelligence to Catalyst switches, app-performance management
Cisco this week said it added technology to its widely-used Catalyst switch and AppDynamics application monitoring package that will let customers more easily see and fix critical network and application problems across their...

Cisco takes its first steps toward network-as-a-service
Cisco unwraps Cisco Plus, a NaaS offering focused on security and hybrid cloud for now

Open source, programmability, and as-a-service to play a big role in future networks
As networks rely more on software, industry experts expect open-source to play a role in Layer 2 and 3 functionality, and that data-centers will rely more on cloud-like services.

Google and Cisco extend SD-WAN, cloud network-management integration
Cisco has integrated its SD-WAN technology with Google's Network Connectivity Center, a new management platform designed to simplify on-prem and cloud networking.

VMware bolsters cloud app security with Mesh7 buy
Mesh7's security technology will be combined with VMware's Kubernetes-based Tanzu Service Mesh.

Cisco grows UCS server family with high-powered AMD processor
Cisco is using AMD’s new EPYC 7003 processor to boost performance in its Unified Computing System family of servers.

Cisco bumps up its silicon speed to 25.6Tbps
Cisco's Silicon One webscaler-device family now has 10 members
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