Nonprofit organizations have a very different relationship with technology than many commercial businesses. They may manage donations, grants, volunteers, memberships, programs, recurring contributions, and fundraising campaigns at the same time. What makes it harder is that the people using the system often need a clear view of the same constituent from very different angles. For that reason,...

Cloud infrastructure can look deceptively simple from the outside. A virtual machine is created with a few clicks, storage is provisioned in minutes, and users can be added without touching a physical server. But once an organization has hundreds of resources, multiple networks, strict access requirements, backups, monitoring, and cost controls, administration becomes a serious technical...

A modern data center is far more than a collection of powerful servers sitting behind a row of switches. Applications depend on fast networks, resilient compute resources, storage fabrics, automation, and security controls working together. When one layer is poorly configured, the effects can spread surprisingly quickly. That is why Cisco's Data Center Core certification takes a broad view of...