Cisco ACI

April 27, 2016

DATA CENTER

Interop and EMC World – A double header in Vegas next week

If it is May, it must be raining conventions in Las Vegas. I am heading for a double header the first week of May to be part of the excitement at Interop and EMC world. It is going to be extra exciting for me personally, as I will be shuttling from Mandalay Bay (Interop) and EMC world (Venetian) eve…

April 22, 2016

DATA CENTER

Bring Application Intent to Networking Containers

Yesterday, Mike Cohen’s post Networking Containers: Policy Finally Comes of Age appeared on the Open Networking User Group blog site.  He talks about the tremendous interest among application developers to use Linux containers to develop, deploy, and operate applications.  Containers and micro…

April 18, 2016

CLOUD

Cisco Has Plenty In Store For You at the OpenStack Summit in Austin

The upcoming OpenStack Summit will be Cisco’s first Headline sponsorship at this semi-annual gathering of the OpenStack community…and it’s a good thing we’re headed to Austin because we need a Texas-sized venue to share everything. The Cisco booth (C11) at the OpenStack Summit is going to be filled…

April 8, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Delivers Big Benchmark Results for Big Data

Cisco UCS benchmarking success in the Big Data space continues. We invest and lead in Big Data workload benchmark tests as these workloads are commonly found in UCS-oriented Data Centers around the world. The guiding principles our Cisco UCS teams follow for benchmarking in the Big Data arena are:…

April 1, 2016

DATA CENTER

Customers Speak Out On ACI: Speed, Simplicity & Security

Speed, simplicity and security – these are 3 of the recurring themes that come up in conversations with customers when discussing ACI. Why? Because ACI addresses 3 fundamental problems that seem to be consistent with people running data centers – across vertical markets, geographies and organization…

March 14, 2016

DATA CENTER

Profile Once, Deploy Anywhere

This is the third blog in a series on the management and orchestration ACI ecosystem partners that use the open northbound interface of the APIC. It is easier to see how partners that deliver application management enable businesses to become digital enterprises since a major element of digital stra…

March 14, 2016

DATA CENTER

3 SDN lessons in 3 years of production – Learn from Cisco ACI and Citrix NetScaler best practices

This blog has been developed in collaboration with Citrix. Primary Author – Steve Shah, VP Product Management. Secondary Author – Ravi Balakrishnan, storyboard, blog style and content adaptation. Bring out your dead! This, among many other quotable lines from Monty Python and the Holy G…

March 7, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco ACI and Avi Networks deliver compelling ROI and automation to leading financial management software firm

This Blog has been developed in collaboration with Avi Networks. Primary Author: Chandra Sekar, VP Marketing, Avi Networks.   Outline, Flow, Adaptation  by Ravi Balakrishnan, Cisco Systems. Avi Networks recently acquired a large financial management software company as a customer, and experienced fi…

March 4, 2016

DATA CENTER

From Applications to ASICs in 3D: Changes, Part Three

3D: Digitization and Disruption in the Data Center This week at Partner Summit, Cisco made major headlines with Data Center announcements in 3 key areas: Cloud, Hyperconvergence and Switching. One of the headlines reads “Partners Applaud Cisco’s Launch Of ‘Incredible’ New Line Of N…