Cisco Nexus 9000

September 30, 2019

DATA CENTER

Continuing innovations on Nexus9K ITD – Additional server load-balancing use cases

A couple months ago we released the new Cisco Innovated Intelligent Traffic Distribution (ITD) features on NX-OS 9.3.1. In this latest addition to Nexus 9000, we introduced ITD over VXLAN and ITD with destination NAT. The Cisco ITD feature in NX-OS was developed to addresses concerns with respect to…

September 6, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Rise of Day-2 Operations – Pinpointing Video Quality Issues

If you’re in the media industry, you know why the move from serial digital interfaces (SDI) to IP can be so stressful. Leveraging IP for broadcasting in studios, stadiums and trucks dramatically simplifies and optimizes infrastructure setup and work flows and opens innovative ways of doing remote pr…

May 17, 2019

DATA CENTER

Nexus 9500 Turnes Five Building on 25 Years of Experience and Expertise

Albert Einstein once said “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Captured in that self-effacing comment is an insight that applies to the common lineage of Catalyst 6500 and Nexus 9500 switch product lines. Cisco’s continous focus is to solve customer prooblems thr…

October 17, 2018

DATA CENTER

Cisco Delivers Flexible Deployment Options for Large-Scale Cloud Providers

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches are built from the ground up with scalability and open API’s  to meet the needs of our customers. Some of our webscale customers running large scalable data centers prefer to choose specific hardware and software to meet their unique requirements. Last year, we annou…

July 25, 2018

DATA CENTER

Grifols Increases IT Efficiency and Builds Global Data Center Network with Cisco ACI

Grifols is a global healthcare company working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Grifols has been working in the fields of transfusion, blood banking, protein therapeutics, and laboratory analysis for more than 70 years and distributes products in 90 countries. Challen…

August 31, 2017

DATA CENTER

VXLAN Innovations on the Nexus OS: Part 1 of 2

Posting this blog on behalf of Babi Seal, Senior Manager, Product Management, INSBU and Lukas Krattiger, Principal Engineer, INSBU Virtual Extensible LAN or VXLAN for short has been around since 2011 as an enabling technology for scaling and securing large cloud data centers. Cisco was one of VXLAN’…

August 10, 2017

DATA CENTER

The Cisco Nexus 9516 Thrusts Itself into the Record Books

October 2017 will mark the 20-year anniversary of the world record set for the fastest automobile ever recorded – the appropriately named “ThrustSSC” that distinguished itself as the first car to ever break the sound barrier Almost two decades later, the Cisco Nexus 9516 Switch put up some serious p…

July 19, 2017

DATA CENTER

Policy Driven Automation Enables Innovation or Why Customers Adopt Vscale Architecture

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…

July 17, 2017

DATA CENTER

For Data Center Security, It’s Not ‘Trust, but Verify’, Verify Again, and then Trust

According to the Cisco 2017 Annual Security Report, security attacks on businesses have significant consequences with nearly quarter of these companies suffering lost business opportunities, 20 percent of them losing customers, and more than 30 percent of them losing revenue. For example, the recent…