Cisco ACI

Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) was designed from the very beginning with a foundation of openness, extensibility and programmability. Building on this foundation,  we are very excited to introduce the Cisco ACI App Center.  With this new ACI capability, customers, developers, and p…

5 Ways Cisco ACI® Integration with ServiceNow® will Elevate Your IT Operations Management According to a recent report by Gartner, more than $1 trillion in IT spending will be directly or indirectly affected by the cloud shift during the next five years. Traditional IT spending is shifting over to c…

YRC Freight, based in Kansas, is a leading transporter of industrial, commercial, and retail goods, specializ­ing in solutions for businesses across North America. In fact, so large is their network and operations that anything we buy at any store is possibly shipped by YRC. In 2013, their IT depart…

In recent weeks, I had the opportunity to attend F5 Agility US and Australia, and meet with several customers and partners of Cisco and F5. It was evident from these events that there is an increasing momentum in deploying F5 application services with Cisco ACI. There are several customers in produc…

“No-Ops” for Developers and “No-Dev” for IT Ops   Analysts agree that IT is in the midst of a major transformation. Based on the results of latest Gartner enterprise IT buying behavior survey, the majority of spending is going towards modernizing, functionally expanding or substituting long-sta…

This is Part IV in a four part series of blogs. This blog has been co-written with Vincent Esposito (@vesposit) This is the last of a series of blogs dedicated to explaining some of the use cases that can leverage ACI Micro Segmentation capabilities. In the first blog we described how to use ACI mic…

In a few weeks Spring season will set in, and it’ll be a Ripper Down Under. For the IT technology geeks there is plenty of action in store to celebrate the onset of Aussie spring. I am talking about F5 Agility 2016, that is about to rock Melbourne (Aug 16) and Sydney (Aug 18). After making a big sp…

Visibility has always been a core component of building effective security policy. Starting with the discovery phase of understanding the behavior of the users and assets on a network through the effective monitoring of the policy once the policy is implemented. Through the collection and analysis o…

Only a few weeks remain for the Fall season to officially set in, and it’s still quite hot in Chicago. The fast approaching F5 Agility event is further adding a sizzle to the conference scene at the Chicago Downtown Hyatt Regency.  August is the most popular season to visit Chicago and we are seeing…