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Cisco Stealthwatch and Cisco DNA Center bridge the SecOps – NetOps divide
By sheer necessity, there is an increasingly interdependent role between NetOps and SecOps in many enterprises. Cisco has been monitoring three trends: Networks are connecting ever more devices, locations and users. The complexity of managing them is creating openings for new threats. As advanced t…
Regulated Industries Harness the Power of Real-time Visibility
The VP of Data Center Operations at a B2B cloud provider cannot guarantee that his enterprise customer’s sensitive records are protected from attacks — even with his arsenal of threat detection and mitigation tools. Amongst rows of opaque racks with thousands of consolidated workloads, h…
Red Hat and Cisco bring Application Policy to OpenStack environments
On January 13, 2015, Cisco will celebrate a year of industry adoption of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a ground breaking SDN architecture. It will include a public webcast with ACI customers and ecosystem partners describing a range of new solutions that dramatically simplify data center…
ACI for Splunk Enterprise: Enabling comprehensive application health
On January 13th, 2015, Cisco will celebrate the 1-year anniversary of its launch of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a ground breaking SDN architecture. It will include a public webcast with the participation of early ACI adopters and our ecosystems partners. One of these inaugural partne…
Turbocharging new Hadoop workloads with Application Centric Infrastructure
At the June Hadoop Summit in San Jose, Hadoop was re-affirmed as the data center “killer app,” riding an avalanche of Enterprise Data, which is growing 50x annually through 2020. According to IDC, the Big Data market itself growing six times faster than the rest of IT. Every major tech company, old…
New Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch Release 3.1 Now Available
There has been some seismic activity happening in Bay Area and the epicenter for all Virtual Networking shifts is right here at Cisco HQ in San Jose. (Our sympathies go to all those affected by the real earthquake further to the north.) At Cisco, it’s all about the applications and the shift to dyn…
IDC Quantifies Massive Business Value for Data Centers Using ACI
At the recent CiscoLive event in San Francisco, Soni Jiandani, Senior Vice President of Cisco INSBU, expanded on the industry momentum for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). She highlighted wide ranging customers and ecosystem partners that are discovering ACI’s architectural potential to dr…
A New ESG White Paper: Accelerating Transformation with an Application-centric Approach
At CiscoLive San Francisco held last week, Soni Jiandani, Senior Vice President of Cisco INSBU, highlighted our continued industry momentum for Application Centric Infrastructure. She discussed customer deployments, new ecosystem partners and the enormous simplification of cloud and application del…
Splunk and Cisco APIC drive Network Analytics
When Cisco first envisioned the concept of an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) we knew it wouldn’t be possible for ACI to achieve its full potential without the active support of a broad and comprehensive partner ecosystem. Today, more than 26 partners delivering a range of industry-leading…