New knowledge, in depth analysis and detailed remediation steps have been introduced in release 6.3.x.x. It supports many new critical metrics for the next critical and widely deployed CISCO Data Center NX-OS technologies: ✓ virtual Port Channel (vPC) ✓ Fabric Extender (FEX) In brief, the Cisco Nexus virtual Port Channel (vPC) is a virtualization technology launched […]

Nearly every organization has automation as a top priority in 2018, including Palo Alto Networks end users. In an effort to support current and new business initiatives, IT professionals are looking for ways to reduce errors in day to day operations. Selecting which version of hardware and software to deploy from your top vendors is […]

That’s a wrap folks! Yet another successful Palo Alto Networks Ignite conference made up of countless conversations and deep dives into Indeni’s offerings. Though we did our best to appease everyone who stopped by our booth, we are aware we could not get to everyone, as you can see from the photo below. If you […]

Amidst the hustle and bustle of Indeni’s lively booth at Palo Alto Networks Ignite 2018 conference, research was underway. Indeni’s booth visitors were invited to answer a brief survey, earning them a complimentary reward within the Indeni Crowd Learning Path. Over 260 Palo Alto users answered the survey, providing the Indeni community with even more […]

The next-generation of Network Security Engineers are now among us, pushing the limits on what is possible and how things are done. These trademark characteristics are not lost on our Indeni Crowd June Member of the Month, Akshay Desai. As a budding IT entrepreneur, Akshay has found a valuable community within Indeni Crowd to tap […]

From day one, it was clear to us at Indeni that in order to make network and security operations easier, we needed to get everyone to work together. Existing approaches to business continuity were unable to scale as each operator was limited to their own experience with hardware and software. What data to measure? What […]

Cisco launched the Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) series in 2009. The FEX technology is based on the IEEE 802.1BR standard. The Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders behave logically like remote line cards of the parent Cisco Nexus switch. The parent switch can be a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch, Nexus 6000 Series Switch, Nexus […]

We get it. The network and security software markets are difficult to navigate. There is an overwhelming list of technologies that you could use to monitoring, manage, troubleshoot, and analyze your environment. Goal of this blog post is to help you understand where Indeni can fit in your environment. Here are a few technology categories […]

Today I’m excited to share that we have just closed another round of financing. The new investment, a total of $14M since our last funding announcement, was led by RTP Ventures and included State of Mind Ventures, Caremi Partners and existing investor Sequoia Capital. Startups raise massive amounts of money on a regular basis. I […]

This is the third and final article from the Cisco Nexus virtual Port Channel (vPC) virtualization technology and Indeni series. In the previous articles we covered the main components, features and best practices implemented for the NX-OS vPC Data Center technology. Indeni discovered and analyzed the Nexus switches N9k and N5k deployed in a vPC […]

Many organizations have a central user account/role repository for managing their users and IT infrastructures. The directory is one of the most popular choices for managing user information. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is the de facto standard for querying directory data. We felt that LDAP would allow us to achieve centralized authentication and eventually […]

  How to Move from Manual Operations to Self-driving IT It’s no secret that automation is entering IT, and specifically the network and security space. At Indeni, our customers have guided us in our evolution from Network Monitoring to Network Automation Platform. With over 1100 community members and leading customers in Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail […]