Cisco ACI
New FortiGate Connector for Cisco ACI Delivers App-Centric Security Automation For Data Center Agility
Cisco’s open ACI eco-system is gaining rapid momentum in Data Centers with more than 45 leading partners developing joint solutions addressing L4-L7 network and security service use-cases along with application stack automation. Just a few weeks ago we announced a major milestone in our journey, Cis…
Data Centers: Applications, Networks and Chicken-Salad Sandwiches
You’ve seen the data points: 30 million new devices connected to the Internet each week. A whopping 50 billion connected by 2020. This surge of connectivity – driven largely by the Internet of Everything – is creating vast new opportunities for digitization as industries transform. This tidal wave o…
What Du Can Do With ACI
It seems people sometimes have this view of SDN as addressing rather esoteric use cases and situations. However, the reality is that while there are instances of ‘out there stuff’ happening, there are many situations where we see customers leverage the technology to address pretty straightforward is…
Danske Bank: Our 1000th Cisco ACI Customer!
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…
Cisco ACI – A Hardened Secure Platform With Native, Built-in Security
This blog has been developed in association with Javed Asghar, Insieme Business Unit The Cisco ACI Platform consists of the Cisco APIC controller and Nexus 9000 series switches connected in a spine/leaf topology in a CLOS architecture configuration. All management interfaces (REST API, web GUI and…
NterOne Automates Applications Deployments with Cisco ACI
This June in San Diego, I had the pleasure of meeting Dan Stanton, Trainer and Subject Matter Expert at NterOne, a global IT training and consulting company. Dan shared his challenges to create great digital experiences for NterOne’s students. Dan and his team have to support virtual IT trai…
Policy Driven Infrastructure to Transform Your Microsoft Cloud, Apps, and Operations
Please join us Thursday Sept 24, 2015 11:00AM ET for a WindowsITPro virtual event. We have an information packed agenda planned for you encompassing: The cloud, the hybrid cloud, and the private cloud. Software-defined networking and policy-based automation. The idea of application policy in next…
New Innovations for L4-7 Network Services Integration with Cisco’s ACI Approach
As application performance, security and delivery get more critical, and as the need for network automation grows, the vision of an architecture that allows easy integration of L4-7 services into the data center fabric is increasingly getting validated. We’ve seen at least two services load balancer…
Make The World A Better Place – Simplify and Automate Your Data Center
Last week, I wrote about Cisco’s SDN Strategy for the Data Center. I’d like to follow that up with 2 comments today. A reminder of the fact that we’ll be doing a webinar tomorrow on this topic, and A general observation regarding SDN making the world a better place (don’t roll your eyes yet. There…