Cisco ACI
ACI and CITEIS Fortify the Cloud-Enabled Data Center
In July 2014, Cisco IT turned on the Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric for the first time in our San Jose engineering data center. Since then, we’ve been busy building out the ACI fabric in our U.S. production centers and beginning the process of migrating workloads. In phases, we’ll m…
Cisco APIC Makes Best of Interop 2015 Finalist
With Interop less than three weeks away, we are excited to learn that Cisco APIC, the SDN controller for our Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric, has been selected as Best of Interop 2015 Finalists in Software Defined Networking (SDN) category. As you may recall, when we announced ACI b…
The Power of the ACI Toolkit: The “Snapback” App
I recently wrote in my blog about a partner, WWT, that quickly developed a network replication solution across dual DC using the programming interface on the APIC. Our own development team, just published a complete management rollback mechanism for the APIC using the ACI toolkit’s high level APIs…
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Embrane
With agility and automation as persistent drivers for IT teams, the need to simplify application deployment and build the cloud is crucial for the data center. Today, Cisco is pleased to announce its intent to acquire Embrane, a provider of a lifecycle management platform for application-centric net…
ACI – Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure for Microsoft System Center, Windows Azure Pack and More
From the beginning Microsoft has been a strategic partner with Cisco in the development of our Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) technologies and solutions. In fact Cisco CEO John Chambers shared the stage with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella at the ACI launch several months ago in New York City. A…
ACI Programmability Enables Cloud Tenant BC/DR Across Dual Data Centers
Ask any storage administrator trying to deploy Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) solutions between two data centers if it is simple to get the networking set up for mission critical applications in a BC/DR scenario. I am willing to wager you’ll hear the same tales I’ve often heard,…
Federated ACI Fabrics for Dual Data Center Deployments – A Disaster Recovery ACI use-case
Wins, Accomplishments, Fast Action, welcome to the world of Cisco ACI. In this blog, I want to take you closer to the core of ACI excitement. Cisco Insieme Business Unit and Cisco’s premier Partner, World Wide Technology Inc (WWT) have come together in developing an ACI based Business Continuity/Dis…
Announcing the new Data Center and Cloud Community!
It’s finally here- the new Data Center and Cloud community framework has launched! We created new content spaces for Compute and Storage, Software Defined Networks, Data Center and Networking, and OpenStack and OpenSource Software.…
Ready, Set…Cloud! Vblock, VxBlock and Cisco ACI usher in operational simplicity and software defined innovation fo …
Complexity is easy. Simplicity is hard. Solving operational complexity has been one of the hardest challenges in data center and cloud build-outs. For customers, the challenge of interfacing with different infrastructure vendors and driving integration has been a significant hurdle in the past, slow…