Blog for Business Leaders

Our network assessments often find that organizations don’t allocate funds or staff resources to adequately monitor their network infrastructure. For example, key WAN interfaces will be monitored, but data center interfaces will be ignored.

Let’s talk about complex network technologies and how they affect your business. On the plus side, some complex technologies can automate functionality to large scale, and provide the prospect of [...]

DNS security is a valuable first layer of visibility and defense that provides powerful insight into an organization’s internet communications.

Professional development and what it takes to become a Cisco Business Architecture specialist.

I recently talked with a customer about selecting an approach for network automation; a new technology for them. I did some up-front planning, made some notes, and then we talked [...]

Network automation was a big topic at Cisco Live 2018. Susie Wee announced that Cisco’s DevNet now has more than 500,000 registered users. There was coverage by other bloggers including: [...]

NetCraftsmen sent a large group of our employees to Cisco Live 2018 with three main goals. First, we wanted to focus on learning and growing our capabilities. Second, we wanted [...]

Is a slow application due to the network, an overloaded server, a poorly written database query, a bug in a client-side JavaScript module, or something else? Increasingly complex application stacks [...]

The holy grail of policy control is consistent, secure, end-to-end control. That means identifying users or end devices at the point they connect to the network, assigning policy, and enforcing [...]

The Information Technology team’s job is never done – it just keeps getting bigger. This blog is about the challenges in finding suitable staff and skills, and some options addressing [...]

Design techniques and technology change. Learn why you should get a second opinion when evaluating your needs for a network refresh.

The security community became aware of a new type of hardware-based “Zero Day” vulnerability a few years ago, starting with a complex issue dubbed RowHammer. This was an exploit that took [...]