Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Cisco DevNet certifications: One year in, 10K have been awarded Tech giant's revamped DevNet certification portfolio focuses on network programming, automation and application development, and those software-based skills have never been more important Credit: Dreamstime In the year since Cisco revamped its DevNet certification portfolio to focus more on network programing, automation and application development, the need for those software-based skillsets has never been more important. The requirement for software skills in the networking environment is being driven by a number of factors including the tremendous increase in the use of automation, the need to have an intelligent pipeline to remote users, and the growing necessity to efficiently network and secure multi-cloud resources.