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22. januari 2019

Cisco HyperFlex is hét onderscheidende hyperconverged platform in de industrie. Sommige IT-fabrikanten positioneren hyperconverged als dé heilige graal en oplossing voor alle workloads. Bij Vosko weten we echter uit ervaring dat dit niet zo is. De workload bepaalt of hyperconverged dan wel converged-infrastructure of bare metal de beste oplossing is. Omdat Hyperflex is gebaseerd op […]

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The Internet Of Troubles

30. november 2018

Het is dé trend: Internet of Things. Of Internet of Terror. Of Internet of Troubles. En zeker dat laatste, troubles, slaat met name op de wildgroei van ‘dingen’ die gebruik willen maken van een Wi-Fi netwerk. Meer apparaten is op...

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DNS: High security with low costs

7. november 2018

For more than a decade, OpenDNS has been among the world’s most used DNS services and is still seen to be one of the best ways to get the most security for your money. Cloud-based DNS-security is easy to implement...

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Eka-what? Ekahau!

23. augustus 2018

Wireless networks today require that we wring every drop out of the cloth. Users today expect to work when and where they want, and to be able to move around the office without losing connection to the network, all the...

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Is our digital maturity a house of cards?

13. augustus 2018

When I was little I learnt a few clear rules at home: ”Look three times before crossing the road. Don’t go in the water after eating. Brush your teeth in the morning and before bed.” Nowadays you are still fighting...

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Stranger things on your WiFi!

24. juli 2018

Have you ever heard statements like these from someone in your organization? “We need our own Wi-Fi network for this project, and with no security. It’s too difficult” “I really need these 100 Wi-Fi cameras on the network, preferably yesterday!”...

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Exploit the implementation of Firepower!

22. juni 2018

With integrated Next Generation Firewall Features Firepower is extremely effective at blocking external threats. But, are you exploiting all the knowledge and information Firepower has about your network? In this blog post we will focus on how you can build your Cisco Firepower...

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Tetration Analytics – Insight and understanding of modern data centres

20. juni 2018

Communication within a data centre can be likened to a black box – there is plenty of movement, but insight is limited. The box is both business-critical and sensitive to changes, while at the same time as there are constantly...

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VPNFilter – how to protect yourself

23. mei 2018

Cisco’s warning system, Talos blog, warned about a major attack on network and storage devices from small offices and homes. More than half a million devices in 50 countries are infected with the malware, VPNFilter. Internet of Things, with the acronym IoT, has in recent years been hit by several network-based attacks, which really showed […]

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Can Asset Management be automated?

9. mei 2018

Asset Management is basically about control over assets and intangible products that are part of the day-to-day operations of a company. In the IT department Asset Management is therefore about physical devices, licences and software, and in the task of supporting the business demands in a hectic workday, Asset Management is often given low priority. Occasionally […]

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Automation and orchestration with a purpose: reliability

8. mei 2018

This reliability is facilitated by predictability and availability/redundancy techniques. Traditional redundancy techniques (such as RAID) are faced with revolutionary developments, as they were cumbersome, complex and inefficient. New software-defined techniques have revolutionised today’s enterprise data center infrastructures when it comes to availability...

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First line of defense with DNS Security

7. mei 2018

Wouldn’t it be great if you could protect the equipment in your network before connecting to the Internet! You have already taken the necessary measures. Still, it feels like something is still missing when it comes to the protection of...

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IoT – like Internet of Trouble

28. maart 2018

Right now IoT, acronym for Internet of Things, is undoubtedly among the most popular buzzwords in the IT industry. And there is no doubt that we could compile some relevant business cases if we suddenly managed to get everything to be...

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Cisco 5508 Wireless LAN Controller – what now?

22. maart 2018

Let’s just get it out once and for all: Cisco’s 5508 Wireless LAN Controller has done EXTREMELY well. A platform, with practically more than 7 years behind it and still functioning irreproachably. This is almost unheard of in the IT...

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Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report: Self-spreading malware can sink the entire Internet

21. februari 2018

In a match, the striker has the initiative. Can the defender still predict the future, though? Cisco believes so when it publishes its security report today. The Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report studies what attackers have done in the last...

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Intersight data centre: Server configuration without perspiration

9. januari 2018

Intersight “Never before have so few had so many servers in so many different places to manage in as little time as now. Many opt for a multi-cloud strategy which is scalable and requires stringent management from data centres and both...

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Trade-offs to consider when purchasing SD-WAN from an ISP

15. november 2017

In the past few years there has been a lot of talk about software-defined networks (Software-Defined Wide area network, SD-WAN) and now that we are reaching the end of 2017, these products have become so mature that many companies are...

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Intent-based Networking Systems, IBNS: Intent-based networks – introduction

8. november 2017

Intent-based networks: In June Cisco launched its Software Defined Access (SDA), which is an intent-based networking solution. There are also other places in this space, for example Apstra. What is intent-based networking? Traditional networking: imperative approach Traditionally we have built networks with an imperative approach, which means that we had to precisely specify every component in order to […]

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Challenges in load balancing

23. oktober 2017

In the past few years, I have worked a lot with IWAN, Cisco’s SD-WAN implementation (prior to the Viptela-acquisition). One of the advantages of SD-WAN is the ability to load balance the traffic. Load balancing is not a trivial matter. Why not? Equal packet distribution – ECMP If you have an office with two MPLS-or two Internet […]

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