Cisco SDN
Introducing the Cisco ACI App Center
Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) was designed from the very beginning with a foundation of openness, extensibility and programmability. Building on this foundation, we are very excited to introduce the Cisco ACI App Center. With this new ACI capability, customers, developers, and p…
Next Generation Data Center: ACI Leads the Way
More than 1,800 customers are deploying Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) because they see great value in its ability to automate IT tasks, accelerate application deployments and reduce data center TCO. According to Zeus Kerravala of ZK Research, Cisco is now the “market lead by number of dep…
Cisco highlights Multi-Vendor, Broadcast IP-Production Video Proof of Concept As Part of New “Media Blueprint”
Guest Blog by: Roger Sherwood, Cisco Manager of Sales Business Development for Service Provider The idea was born in Paris late 2015. 42 Mediatvcom and the R&D Department of public broadcaster France Televisions wanted to build a proof‐of-concept demonstration for broadcasters interested in int…
Communications and IT Services – It’s Personal This Time
Cisco MOI Forecasts the Opportunity I think most of us take for granted how mobile data services have evolved over the past decade. From simply being able to access email to now watching live video streaming on our personal devices, the pace has been dramatic. Our service providers have also evolved…
Light Reading OSS in the Era of SDN and NFV panel discussion on Service Orchestration
On November 5th Cisco participated at Light Reading’s OSS in the Era of SDN and NFV: Evolution vs. Revolution. Heavy Reading Senior Analyst, Caroline Chappell, organized this one-day event. In my mind, Caroline is our industry’s analyst’s analyst. She is always willing to dig down into the hard tech…
Co-Innovating with Ecosystem Partners to Deliver Truly Integrated Solutions for Our Customers
When we designed Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), we listened to our customers. They asked us to create an open architecture. They wanted us to help create joint solutions with a broad ecosystem of partners (and yes, some competitors). Today, ACI has over 46 partners at varying stag…
Experience Day 0, 1, 2 and N Operations @ PuppetConf
Craig Huitema blogged about Cisco’s SDN strategy and one of the key pillars is programmable networks. Cisco’s programmable networks is based on Nexus operating system NX-OS and our Robb Boyd from TechWiseTV covers it here and goes in more depth about NX-API REST (Object model) here and here. Also go…
Danske Bank: Our 1000th Cisco ACI Customer!
A little over a year ago, we began shipping Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). Yesterday, Chuck Robbins tweeted that we hit our 1000th customer – Danske Bank, the largest financial institution in Denmark. Our fast momentum and success with the Nexus 9000 (N9K) and ACI is largely due to…
Unify IT teams, drastically reduce costs and complexity for Microsoft Cloud Platform
Next week, Cisco will be “Igniting Opportunities Through Innovation” at the Microsoft Windows Partner Conference (WPC). One of the key innovations the team from Cisco’s Insieme Networks and I would like to share at WPC is Cisco ACI for the Microsoft Cloud Platform. It provides o…
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