Cisco ACI
Cisco UCS: Powering Applications at Every Scale
If you follow the news in the world of data center you probably noticed a small announcement from Cisco last week regarding the UCS portfolio… 🙂 To net it out in a simple way, I’ve been telling people that the trail of innovation that Cisco has been blazing with UCS just got a lot wider. That’s…
Citrix NetScaler Device Package for Cisco ACI goes FCS
The Cisco-Citrix partnership has expanded significantly in recent years from UCS-XenDesktop based Desktop virtualization solutions to span Mobility, Desktop as A Service (DaaS) and most recently ACI-NetScaler joint solutions. I have been fortunate enough to be part of this momentum. And it’s b…
UCS Innovation for Core Data Center Applications
We have a number of exciting additions to the UCS family, which we are announcing today. Application architectures are fundamentally changing, which is driving a change to the core infrastructure. Today, you will hear about new innovations in the area of scale-out computing, which are optimized f…
How Is Cisco IT Benefiting from Application Centric Infrastructure?
Cisco IT has already started reaping the benefits of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) from our early internal deployments. Cost savings rank high, in decreased operating expenditures through automation enabled by ACI and the sharp reduction of manual processes that introduce human errors and…
Integrating ACI & Nexus 2000-7000
As the breadth and depth of the ACI solution continues to grow, so does customer interest. Many customers who have invested in, and continue to invest in, the Nexus 2000-7000 switches find the ACI vision very compelling. So, this leads to a logical question regarding how an existing Nexus 2000-700…
How Cisco is Using Platform as a Service (PaaS) delivery and ACI
The role of IT in the enterprise is transforming. Cisco is creating the next-generation data center and cloud deployments with Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) to simplify and optimize the entire application deployment lifecycle. //…
Unleashing IT magazine Profiles Early adopters of Cisco ACI
It has been just a few short weeks since the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) began shipping, building upon the availability of the Nexus 9000 series and laying the foundation for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). The feedback from early adopters has been qui…
Is Networking Cool — Again? Yup!
I don’t think that anyone can deny that being in the IT industry at this time is exciting and interesting. It’s also exhausting. There is a ton of hyperbole floating about on Twitter and the Blogosphere concerning the need for network engineers to become programmers, and that ‘whatever’ technology d…
F5 device Package for Cisco APIC goes FCS
Recent few weeks should have been exciting if you are a customer of ACI. First, we announced the shipment of ACI to Data Centers worldwide. Then, F5 announced that its device package for Cisco APIC is FCS. We also had a very successful F5 Agility at New York early in August, showcasing Cisco ACI-F5…