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Cisco Data Center at Interop 2014 – Rebecca’s Keynote, Best of Interop Finalist, Customer Luncheon and many …
Finally, Interop 2014 is around the corner and Las Vegas is heating up belying the wintry conditions as I step out of the airport. Two weeks ago, two of our flagship Cisco ACI products, Cisco Nexus 9516 and the Cisco APIC (Application Policy Infrastructure Controller) both were selected as Best of I…
Best of Interop Awards: Cisco APIC and Nexus 9516 Switch Selected as Finalists
With Interop less than three weeks away, we were doubly excited to learn that Cisco APIC, the controller for our Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric, and the Cisco Nexus 9516 switch have been selected as Best of Interop 2014 Finalists in the categories of Software Defined Networking (SDN…
Looking Beyond Cost Savings with SDN and NFV
A few weeks ago when we announced the Cisco APIC Enterprise Module, in response to a post by Cisco VP Jeff Reed, David had quite a lengthy comment to which I’d like to respond. His specific question (within the full comment) was: Do you see an upside for more value-added offerings — beyond th…
Inside Cisco IT Takes You on Our Security Journey
Would you jump on a horse without consulting someone else who is at least somewhat familiar with horses? You know, like a cowgirl or boy? Probably not. At least not if you’re interested in staying in the saddle versus tumbling to the never-soft earth. While Cisco IT doesn’t have any expertise in ho…
Open Daylight Shines in Impressive Debut
First Open Daylight Summit took place exactly one year since we’ve started the project, to the day! Ah, those memories of having to stay quietly patient, from our first meeting, February 4th, 2013, and longer… in hindsight, talking about it after the code actually started to flow was mor…
Data Center and Cloud Networking Acceleration Continues – New Products, Technologies and Partners ring in 2014!
I could not have asked for a better start to the New Year. 2014 was quick off the starting blocks with January already setting the tone for the rest of the year as momentum continues to pick up in data center and cloud networking. Here are some highlights of the state of the business, new product in…
Cisco ACI adds New Security and Application Delivery Vendors to Ecosystem: A10 Networks and Catbird
Cisco announced last week that its rapidly expanding ACI ecosystem now includes the A10 Networks aCloud Services Architecture based on the Thunder ADC Application Delivery Controllers, as well as the Catbird IDS/IPS virtual security solutions. These new ACI ecosystem vendors are announcing support f…
New Year, New Challenges, New Successes: SDN Bringing Agility, Security and TCO to Campus and Branch Networks
Before recently taking on a new role as Cisco’s vice president and general manager of Software-Defined Network (SDN) with the enterprise networking group, I served as the vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Unified Access portfolio and led the expansion of the Catalyst 2k, 3k and 4k series…
Follow-up Q&A on ACI Methodology and the Pursuit of an Application-Aware Architecture
We’ve been getting a lot of great questions about ACI since our launch as people try and better understand the value of an application-oriented approach. I got the following questions on my blog post about the Application Virtual Switch that probed on some of the thinking behind an application…