Cisco ACI
Fast IT Workshop #4 – Innovative Infrastructure Management: Challenges and Opportunities
As business leaders navigate an increasingly complex world of connections, they need IT to provide a programmable infrastructure that can dynamically respond to their needs. This four-part blog series explores how responsive infrastructure helps IT leaders succeed. The first post in this series, by…
Cisco ACI at F5 Agility 2014, Copenhagen
At F5 Agility 2014 Copenhagen this month, Applications take the central stage. The key focus area is Application Delivery Controllers (ADC’s as Gartner calls them) and how they are increasingly becoming more important to modern IT than they used to be, allowing scale, availability, orchestration an…
Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 wins Best of Interop Japan, 2014
Success breeds success. In April this year, Cisco Nexus 9516 won the Best of Interop at Las Vegas. Yesterday, Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 won the Best of Interop at Tokyo. Listen to Cisco Technical Marketing Engineer Lucien Avramov describe the action and excitement of the award announcement on the s…
Cisco Supply Chain Operations Places in Top 10 of Gartner Ranking
Congratulations to the Cisco Supply Chain Operations (CSCO) team. For seven consecutive years, Cisco has placed in the Top 10 of Gartner’s prestigious ranking! Led by Cisco Senior VP John Kern, the supply chain operations team here at Cisco has undergone an extensive transformation and continu…
OpenStack with ACI whiteboard Video illustrations by Lucien Avramov
According to Gartner’s Andrew Lerner, many of the networking practitioners running mainstream corporate networks have only surface-level knowledge of OpenStack as evidenced in his recent blog. To assist networkers to understand Openstack, we created an easy white-board style video illustration of Op…
Partner Ecosystem Enhances the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Value Chain
The 25th anniversary of Cisco Live was an enormous hit, with record crowds at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Every day I could feel the enthusiasm of Cisco customers and partners, and it was especially high in the World of Solutions Expo. That’s where I spent most of my time, on the Expo floor…
Fast IT Workshop #2 – Roadmap to Fast IT
As business leaders navigate an increasingly complex world of connections, they need IT to provide a programmable infrastructure that can dynamically respond to their needs. This four-part blog series explores how responsive infrastructure helps IT leaders succeed. This post will discuss what IT lea…
IDC Quantifies Massive Business Value for Data Centers Using ACI
At the recent CiscoLive event in San Francisco, Soni Jiandani, Senior Vice President of Cisco INSBU, expanded on the industry momentum for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). She highlighted wide ranging customers and ecosystem partners that are discovering ACI’s architectural potential to dr…
A New ESG White Paper: Accelerating Transformation with an Application-centric Approach
At CiscoLive San Francisco held last week, Soni Jiandani, Senior Vice President of Cisco INSBU, highlighted our continued industry momentum for Application Centric Infrastructure. She discussed customer deployments, new ecosystem partners and the enormous simplification of cloud and application del…