application centric infrastructure
Acxiom uses ACI to transform their private cloud
Acxiom is a well-known Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company providing data analytics and data processing solutions to Fortune 100 companies for running and analyzing their marketing campaigns. Recently Cisco spoke to Acxiom’s senior managers Kamal Kharrat, and Chuck Crane, about Cisco’s Application…
#EngineersUnplugged S5|Ep9: Why ACI?
In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Jim French (@CiscoJimFrench) and Bill Gurling (@vDingus) talk about Why ACI in the modern data center. This is Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, with a whiteboard. The rules are simple: Episodes…
ACI enables a world class Service Oriented IT organization
Private Clouds are fundamentally challenging how modern data centers are acquiring and consuming IT. Nearly half of large enterprises polled[1] have deployed a private cloud, its reasonable to say organizations are tackling head-on the key concerns of designing, building and deploying a private clo…
Cisco’s Commitment to Openness and Interoperability will be on Display at Red Hat Summit 2014
Change is good. After a successful run of four years in Boston, Red Hat Summit moves to San Francisco this year from April 14-17. Red Hat Summit has become one of the premier open source events for the enterprise IT industry with tracks for both developers and business executives. &nb…
Introducing OpFlex – A new standards-based protocol for Application Centric Infrastructure
Continuing on its tradition of contributing and committing to open source and open standards over the last 25 years, today Cisco announced “OpFlex” – a new open standards-based protocol for Application Centric Infrastructure that has been submitted into the IETF standardization process. We believe t…
New Applications are Knocking! Is your data center OPEN for business?
Mark your calendars. On April 2nd at Interop this week we will be bringing you an exciting new webcast – “New Applications are Knocking! Is your Data Center OPEN for business?” Register Here! Cisco will be sharing new announcements led by Soni Jiandani, SVP at Cisco. Joining us…
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…
#EngineersUnplugged S5|Ep2: ACI and Traditional Networking
This is an amazing episode of Engineers Unplugged, where two technologists from the community, Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000) and Colin Lynch (@ucsguru) discuss how ACI disrupts traditional networking thinking while leveraging current networking skills. It’s a great tutorial for anyone looking to…
ACI Design Principles: The role of SDN Overlays in Application Centric Deployments – Part 1
This is a two-part blog series developed in association with Tom Edsall, a Cisco Fellow and CTO of Insieme Networks, recently acquired by Cisco Systems. The intent is to elaborate on foundational design principles of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a transformational approach for next-gene…