Charlotte, NC – December 13, 2018 – Internetwork Engineering (IE) today announced a new partnership with Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, to offer Nutanix solutions to IE’s customers throughout the Southeast. The partnership will help IE to deliver industry-leading hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) technology with one-click management through Nutanix’s enterprise cloud platform.

Classroom technology enhances the learning experience, encourages collaboration, and helps students develop future-ready skills. A school’s infrastructure has to include a reliable data center that's robust enough to handle the data flow and connectivity, however, initiatives like 1:1 and BYOD are not the only way devices are connecting to campus networks.

Internetwork Engineering (IE) Awarded with Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year: Enterprise Networking Award for U.S. South at Cisco Partner Summit 2018 Recently at Cisco’s annual partner conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Internetwork Engineering (IE) received the Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year: Enterprise Networking Award for U.S. South for its innovation, leadership and best practice as a Cisco business partner across the Southern region. Chuck Steiner, IE President & CEO, accepted the award on behalf of the company which was recognized for its commitment to intelligent infrastructure that improves customer advantage and success.

Have you transitioned your company’s network away from IPv4 and over to IPv6 yet? If not, why? For years now, we’ve heard apocalypse-type theories of how we need to move to IPv6 or the internet will die. IPv4 exhaustion has been rumored since the 1990s and IPv6 has been around for 19 years, so if you haven’t made the jump, you’re not alone. Google tracks IPv6 statistics and, as of December 2017, only 18.67% of the world has deployed IPv6, with the United States adopting at a faster approximate 25% rate. If we all know that IPv6 will be the standard at some point, then why is it taking so long to transition?

The face of something very familiar is changing. Within a few years you may not recognize the “face” of your data center because many of the technologies you’ve relied on for the last 5-10 years are being disrupted.

Update: Jaymes Krueger has recently posted an updated Cisco DNA Center blog: "Debunking the Top Cisco DNA Center Misconceptions." (March 2022). Read it here. ___ For years, we’ve heard about Software Defined Networking (SDN), and while the hype has been tremendous, we in the engineering community have joked that SDN stands for “Still Does Nothing”. Now that that SDN has been overhyped, marketers have moved on to terms like SD-Access (or SD-WAN) and Digitization. So, when Cisco recently announced their Digital Network Architecture, or DNA, the engineering community reacted with a collective yawn. Just another marketing term, right? Is this just an attempt to erase stale connotations of the first-generation SDN? Not exactly, as it turns out. Where SDN was the automation of network management, Cisco DNA is the automation of the network itself, or “digital networking”.