Exploring Technical Trends and Innovations

Transform and simplify network device updates with Cisco Catalyst Center. Discover how to manage software images effortlessly in our latest blog.

Simplify your engineering mindset! Explore essential principles for designing maintainable systems in our latest blog.

Digital threats are evolving rapidly and securing online accounts is critical, but not all MFA methods are created equal.

Discover how Illumio PCE automation simplifies complex processes and enhances efficiency, revolutionizing network security for your organization.

In the wake of the recent Crowdstrike outage, we must reevaluate trust and security procedures.

OpenTofu is making waves as an open-source Infrastructure as Code tool. See how SMS Engineers can help migrate your IaC projects.

Programs, even simple projects, can seem like exercises in herding cats. I’d like to discuss an approach to streamline execution.

Legacy network segmentation methodologies are increasingly inadequate. It's time to implement microsegmentation.

Enforcing network traffic symmetry has long been the biggest routing challenge faced in our network. Here is the solution.

We use an Azure Automation to install anything on a Virtual Machine.

Learn the importance of operating system hardening and how to automate your process with OpenSCAP, Ansible, Packer and Terraform.

IT infrastructure-as-a-service (ITaaS) models, such as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) as a service (HCIaaS), are becoming more popular as businesses look for ways to reduce costs and simplify IT management.

EVPN is a next-generation VPN protocol for building both L2 and L3 VPNs, addressing the challenges of traditional L2VPN protocols while providing L3VPN capabilities.

Learn how to perform a basic setup of Ansible on Eve-NG to push configurations to network devices, and you’ll have the building blocks to begin constructing your own playbook.

How to move on from a "Click-Ops" deployment via the AWS console to an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployment using Terraform.

SMS Cloud Solutions Architect, Ryan DeBerry provides a straight forward approach to Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert re-certification.

The experts have all weighed in and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is the only option worth considering.

Making the transition from Network to Cloud Engineering requires learning new things, but it's worth it.

Integrating Rancher with Openstack simplifies the deployment and management of production-ready Kubernetes clusters at scale on any cloud, public or private.

Deploy an Openstack cloud on top of hosts managed by MAAS using Canonical's Juju, an open source application modelling tool that deploys, configures, scales and operates cloud infrastructures efficiently.

Our interconnected world increasingly relies on the outputs of a multitude of companies located globally. Monitoring the sell-side of your transactions is every bit as important as monitoring the buy-side of your transactions.

For all of the gains made by Kubernetes as it relates to managing applications, there is a general consensus that deploying and managing Kubernetes itself is hard.