Nexus 9000

To see how easy it is to create your own optical network, let us take you through the steps in this video Enterprises are experiencing explosive traffic growth that is challenging the current IT infrastructure. Many have plans to modernize their infrastructure to adjust for this growth. It’s a…

It was about 18 months ago, when I started a new project called “Catena”. It was based on my inventions in the area of application-chaining, security, segmentation and L4-L7 applications integration. I also lead/managed the team to design, develop, validate and deliver the product to cus…

Flexibility, scalability, agility. These are capabilities that everyone claims in the industry. How do you actually differentiate which company’s solution is the best? Instead of boring you with more buzz words, let me show you who really owns the crown for the best data center switches: Nexus 9000 …

Primary Author Bio – Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services available across F5’s entire product suite. Her role includes authorship of technical materials and participation in a number of community-based forums and industry standards organizations,…

For most enterprises today, remaining competitive requires them to modernize their data center infrastructure to deliver operational services at the pace and scale of the cloud and DevOps. The Cisco Nexus 9000 is a key component of Cisco ASAP data center as a foundational element of the modern infra…

  I am posting this blog on behalf of Vipul Shah, Sr Manager, Product Management. Imagine a data center network for an e-commerce business that allows for on-demand allocation of bandwidth as a result of high traffic volumes generated by large number of transactions during the holiday shopping…

Two weeks ago, I posted a blog highlighting the growing customer momentum for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), particularly in the context of customer successes in ACI-F5 joint deployments. I am seeing a growing trend among customers of late to directly deploy the Nexus 9k series of switche…

These days, it seems every new data center solution lays claim to the latest industry buzz words: automation and simplicity. Unfortunately, most solutions don’t really live up to their claims and over time they’ve lost their clout. Most people just gloss over them. So, knowing that, why would I use…

Everything about the data center today has changed, driven by the applications that run in it. Today’s data center apps have undergone a fundamental architecture shift from monolithic, shrink-wrapped packages to a collection of microservices that are assembled and reassembled in a continuous develop…