Cisco ACI

I can’t believe it has been a year since I wrote the blog series (part-I, part-II, part-III and part-IV – last one with help from Vincent Esposito) to share some ideas about how to bring theory to practice when it comes to ACI and Micro Segmentation. In the last 12 months we have added quite a…

As many of you may have read on Monday in Tom Edsall’s blog post, Cisco announced our intent to put Cisco ACI into the public cloud – AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google. This allows our customers to place policy anywhere.  And now, with ACI Virtual Edge (AVE), we will continue to fulfill our ‘ACI Anyw…

Evolving beyond multi-pod and multi-site deployment models, ACI will soon be available within public cloud environments, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure At Cisco, we are proud that over 4,000 customers have chosen Cisco Application Centric Infrastructur…

Intent-based Data Center Solutions for SAP Simplify Business Processes and Expedite Digital Transformation. CenturyLink and Cisco have partnered to create Intent-based Data Center Solutions for SAP.  Based on Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco/NetApp FlexPod, our unique converg…

Healthcare costs are rising globally and making it increasingly difficult for patients to get the care they need. In the Netherlands, one very specific non-profit organization, VECOZO, was founded to maintain cost control in the Dutch Healthcare sector. VECOZO operates the national portal for data e…

Many of you know Lauren Malhoit our incredible co-host of TechWiseTV. She asked for my help getting this blog out and who am I to say no even though you know me as the UCS/TCO blogger? There are many things we think about when considering Software Defined Networking. Mostly, it’s the controllers, a…

The IT admin standpoint: What’s in it for me? In the first part of this post we have seen that you can build a service catalog with all the enterprise features you need: multitenancy, role based access control, reporting, chargeback, approvals, etc. But you can also offer (secured) access to t…

Chicago in August is known for film and food festivals, music events and many more fun stuff.  And this fall season, we have the F5 Agility event further adding a sizzle to the conference scene at the Hilton Chicago. From a Cisco standpoint, F5 Agility 2017 prominently features Cisco ACI and Tetrati…

Some of our largest enterprise customers are deploying the next-generation of data center networking.  They are delivering automation and intelligence with programmable hardware and software – deployed with application centric models that work best for their workloads.  Their IT leaders have focused…