Cisco Nexus
CCIE : ITD and RISE in CCIE Data Center
ITD and RISE are now part of CCIE Data Center: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/certifications/ccie_data_center/written-exam-v2/exam-topics Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is a hardware based multi-terabit layer 4 load-balancing, traffic steering and services insertion solution on the…
Must-Knows About DevOps, Cisco Open NX-OS and Ansible
You may wonder what the terms “DevOps, Cisco Open NX-OS and Ansible” have to do with each other. If you plan to visit AnsibleFest 2015 in San Francisco, stop by the Cisco table to learn more. The DevOps approach has been embraced and pioneered by Web 2.0 customers for some time, and now we’re seein…
Disruption = Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data + Efficiency + Speed
Data is the foundation of the digital business. You know it, I know it. We get it. Let’s move on… But now a new question arises: As a Leader in your organization are you fully maximizing and leveraging your data to discover from analysis new business insights? New operational efficiencies? New Custo…
Server Load balancing with NAT, using Nexus switches: ITD
Server load balancer (SLB) has become very common in network deployments, as the data & video traffic are expanding at rapid rate. There are various modes of SLB deployments today. Application load balancing with network address translation (NAT) has become a necessity for various benefits. Cisc…
Halloween can be scary. Automating your network doesn’t need to be.
Some random, yet strangely connected, thoughts the night before Halloween… Zombies can be scary: Death Metal* can be scary: Click here to listen. Learning new skills and using new tools to automate your network can appear to be scary if you don’t have a coding background. But that doesn’t n…
Cisco at IBM Insight 2015: Showcasing Industry-leading Technology for Big Data and Analytics
Note: Cisco’s Mohammed Ahmed of the Cisco IBM Alliance team was the key contributor for this blog post In the IT industry we understand that customer confidence and respect is a leading reason that customers choose IBM and Cisco solutions and services. Cisco and IBM have earned this trust ov…
ITD: Load Balancing, Traffic Steering & Clustering using Nexus 5k/6k/7k/9k
Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is an innovative solution to bridge the performance gap between a multi-terabit switch and gigabit servers and appliances. It is a hardware based multi-terabit layer 4 load-balancing, traffic steering and clustering solution on the Nexus 5k/6k/7k/9k series of…
What is Cisco’s SDN Strategy for the Data Center?
Cisco has a broad spectrum of customers across a wide range of markets and geographies. These customers have a diverse set of requirements, operational models and use cases, meaning that a one size fits all SDN strategy does not fit all our customers. As a result, we made a series of announcements e…
ITD: Learn how to deploy ITD in 10 minutes
ITD (Intelligent Traffic Director) is being deployed by a large number of customers, and it is saving them massive CAPEX and OPEX, while providing unprecedented scale and high availability. Here is a 10 minute video that shows step by step ITD deployment. ITD is shipping on Nexus 9k/7700/7k/…
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