Application policy

June 17, 2016

CLOUD

Making Container Applications Production Grade

Dockercon is here again. It again promises to be bigger and to bring lots of the container and microservices enthusiasts to Seattle next week.  I am personally looking forward to my 3rd Dockercon (including the Dockercon EU in Barcelona).  Even more so because I am excited to be speaking and sharing…

November 5, 2015

CLOUD

Microservices Infrastructure – Mantl – Release 0.4

During the OpenStack Summit last week, we released Mantl 0.4. In this blog I would like to go into more details about the release. But first I’d like to start by explaining what Mantl is – and what it is not. System Integration as Open Source Mantl is a layered stack that takes care of system…

January 8, 2015

DATA CENTER

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…

October 14, 2014

DATA CENTER

The Benefits of an Application Policy Language in Cisco ACI: Part 2 – The OpFlex Protocol

[Note: This is the second of a four-part series on the OpFlex protocol in Cisco ACI, how it enables an application-centric policy model, and why other SDN protocols do not.  Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4] Following on from the first part of our series, this blog post takes a closer look at some of these…

October 10, 2014

DATA CENTER

The Benefits of an Application Policy Language in Cisco ACI: Part 1 – Enabling Automation

[Note: This is the first of a four-part series on the OpFlex protocol in Cisco ACI, how it enables an application-centric policy model, and why other SDN protocols do not.  Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4] IT departments and lines of business are looking at cloud automation tools and software-defined netwo…

November 6, 2013

DATA CENTER

Redefining the Power of IT with Application Centric Infrastructure

After countless brainstorming sessions, code reviews, lab trials, scores of NDAs and nearly two years of intense speculation from media, analysts and the internet community – it is finally here! Today, Cisco is pulling back the curtains to reveal details of the vision of Application Centric Infrastr…

October 23, 2013

DATA CENTER

ACI addresses the Data Center Agility Gap

To know more about Application Centric Infrastructure join us for a special webcast  with John Chambers and Soni Jiandani on November 6th at 10:30 am EST/7:30 pm PST/15:30 GMT Register Here  Revolutions are usually led by challengers, not incumbents.  But Cisco’s Nov. 6th mega-launch of Application…

October 21, 2013

DATA CENTER

The Promise of an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

At Cisco live! Orlando in June, Cisco unveiled its vision for an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a next-generation, secure data center fabric design. At the time, we were only able to unveil key conceptual aspects of ACI, but as we lead up to more detailed product announcements later this…