Application Centric Networking

While digital technology is opening entirely new ways of doing business, some organizations fall short of their ambitions and instead settle on improving existing ways of operating. In fact, analyst reports are predicting some $2 trillion dollars will be spent in 2019 worldwide on digital transforma…

A little over a year ago, we began shipping Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). Yesterday, Chuck Robbins tweeted that we hit our 1000th customer – Danske Bank, the largest financial institution in Denmark. Our fast momentum and success with the Nexus 9000 (N9K) and ACI is largely due to…

For those of you attending Microsoft TechEd Europe in Barcelona, you have an opportunity to hear how Microsoft and Cisco are collaborating to create a shared, elastic resource pool of storage, compute, and networking in Microsoft’s Cloud OS. Maurizio Portolani, Distinguished Technical Marketing Engi…

It’s been almost a year since Cisco publicly unveiled its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). As we’ve noted in the past, ACI had to overcome a number of preconceived notions about Software Defined Networking (SDN), and without some detailed explanation, it was hard to get your head around how…