Cisco ACI
Network Automation with ACI – a NetOps Example
I’d like to talk about Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), and focus on one of the most important steps that Data Center IT teams take on the journey to achieve full automation and deliver agility, security, and efficiency deploying and managing applications. This step – Network A…
How Cisco Tetration Analytics Helps Enable Cisco IT Migrate Applications to ACI
Cisco IT has made an initial implementation of the Cisco® Tetration Analytics™ solution as part of our plan to move all Cisco data centers to a Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) design. The goal of this implementation is to better understand dependencies among appli…
Red Hat Summit 2016 – A Review of key moments
Red Hat Summit 2016 in San Francisco is an ideal setting to experience the power of open source in enterprise, for customers, partners and community enthusiasts. For me personally, this year’s event was a great learning experience, both from the standpoint of quality face-to-face time with industry…
What do “Going Green” and policy group sharing have in common? More than you think!
New Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) v2.1 Enables TrustSec-ACI Policy Plane Integration “Going green” is all about reducing waste and protecting the environment. It’s a movement most of us believe in and try to live by. Who wouldn’t want to reduce waste and protect the environment? In fact, it g…
Must See Cool New Things for App Developers and Infrastructure Operations
For me personally, this year’s Cisco Live will be the most exciting event ever! It comes after our Tetration Analytics announcement, the introduction of Cisco CloudCenter, and the showcasing of the latest generation of Cloud Scale Nexus fabric switches for Application Centric Infrastructure (…
A quick journey through all the excitement that awaits you at Cisco Live 2016
As Las Vegas glows in the intense June summer sun, another glow is appearing on the horizon. The heat is hot and the ground dry, but the air is filled with sound – I am reminded of a famous America song. Are you wondering what the song could be? Cisco Live 2016 is arriving in town a week from…
New! Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera and Apache Spark
Well, we do not stand still for long…at least our R&D teams don’t! The breadth of our solutions for Big Data and Analytics continues to grow, as we are pleased to introduce Cisco’s UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera and Apache Spark. Working with one of…
Micro Segmentation and Cisco ACI – From Theory to Practice Part II
This is Part II in a four part series of blogs. This is the second of a series of blogs where we will illustrate how to leverage Cisco ACI to implement Micro Segmentation. In the first blog we described how to use ACI micro segmentation to implement a web application that uses a tier of apache We…
Big Data is a Big Deal for Your Infrastructure (and it is Cool!)
As I author this, I am in my hotel room in Chicago and its Thursday evening. Our core Cisco Big Data team has been here for the past two days focused on planning our worldwide 2017 activities. One thing that is stuck in my mind now after our meetings is the phrase “Infrastructure is Cool!” – it’s a…