Cisco’s NetFlow is being tapped more and more by network managers to get more granular metrics on which applications are used most, on how to bill back services and on ways to better secure networks.

Cisco’s NetFlow protocol generates such data by collecting information about IP traffic from devices on the network. NetFlow data can show applications, devices or end users behaving in such a way as ...

I'd like to have a better understanding of how my network is performing in real-time and also historically (day, week, month, and year). Currently I launch Cisco ASDM and keep it running on a ...

The promise of software-defined networking — namely simpler, more flexible network operation through centralized, software-driven control — has been tangible for a few years now, though like many new ...

Cisco Systems followed up on its ACI Anywhere initiative announced last January that seeks to extend its software-defined networking (SDN) technology called Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) ...

Using the term "network-as-a-sensor," Cisco is pitching an approach to network security that relies on the whole network rather than on individual products. Cisco didn't invent the term; rather, it ...

Mimecast has decommissioned its SolarWinds Orion software and replaced it with a Cisco NetFlow monitoring system after hackers compromised a Mimecast certificate used for Microsoft authentication.