Craig Huitema
No Longer with Cisco
Articles
Elevating the Role of SDN in the Cloud with Cisco ACI 2.0
ACI 2.0 – released earlier this month – delivers strong new SDN and Cloud capabilities. These enable Scale, Cloud Automation, Security & Analytics, as well as Optimized Operations. Yeah, I know that sounds kinda ‘buzzwordy’, but read on and you’ll get a sense for…
Visibility Into Tetration Analytics, Part 2
This is the second of a two part series on Tetration Analytics, a platform designed to help customers gain complete visibility across their data centers in real time. Part 1 covered challenges, an overview of the solution, and components. Today, I’ll cover use cases, benefits and additional resource…
Visibility Into Tetration Analytics, Part 1
Yesterday Cisco announced Tetration Analytics, a platform designed to help customers gain complete visibility across their data centers in real time. These posts, Data Center Visibility on a Whole New Scale and A Limitless Time Machine For Your Data Center, provide context and a high level overview…
Tetration Analytics: A Limitless Time Machine For Your Data Center
In the film Limitless, the main character Eddie finds himself able to learn and analyze information at a superhuman rate. He temporarily has the ability to instantly and meaningfully cross-correlate all of the previously forgotten experiences from his past (1) and assess multiple scenarios in the fu…
5 Reasons Customers Have Made ACI The Market Leader
Recently, Network World said ACI is the market leader for number of SDN deployments. Let’s take a moment to consider what that means and why it’s the case. First, there is the obvious, in that over 1,800 customers have selected ACI as their Software Defined Network solution. But beyond that, what is…
Will Cloud Displace Partners Doing System Integration & Professional Services?
“Enterprises won’t need systems integration and professional services if they shut down their IT Operations and move to the cloud.” – Light Reading, May 31, 2016 Without any context, that quote could be wildly misinterpreted, and create some angst for you. Because if you’re reading this, you’re prob…
Hybrid Cloud Power Trio
When I hear the term “power trio”, I think of Geddy, Neil and Alex. A band, where there’s just a bass, drums and guitar, with one of ’em singing. By the way, if you like Rush, I’m guessing you’ll like Winery Dogs too. Both are outstanding examples of power trios. Another great…
Customers Speak Out On ACI: Speed, Simplicity & Security
Speed, simplicity and security – these are 3 of the recurring themes that come up in conversations with customers when discussing ACI. Why? Because ACI addresses 3 fundamental problems that seem to be consistent with people running data centers – across vertical markets, geographies and organization…
3 Reasons 10 Million Is A Big Number
10 Million is a big number. How big? To put it in perspective, 10 million minutes is a bit over 19 years…Which is about 15 years longer than it took the Nexus 3000 to reach 10 million ports sold. Said differently, the Nexus 3000 is the Top of Rack switch of choice for lots of customers. Indee…
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