OpenStack

[Note: This is the third a four-part series on the OpFlex protocol in Cisco ACI, how it enables an application-centric policy model, and why other SDN protocols do not. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4] The Cisco ACI fabric is designed as an application-centric intelligent network. The Cisco APIC policy mod…

Curious about OpenStack? Don’t miss this episode of Engineers Unplugged, where Kenneth Hui (@hui_kenneth) and Gabriel Chapman (@bacon_is_king) explain the difference between OpenStack the project, product, and service using bacon as an analogy. Don’t watch hungry. Cue the unicorns. **Wa…

The next stable OpenStack release codenamed “Juno” is slated to be released October 16, 2014. From improving live upgrades in Nova to enabling easier migration from Nova Network to Neutron, the OpenStack Juno release will address operational challenges in addition to providing many new features and…

In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Intel’s Damion Desai and Cisco’s Frank D’Agostino  (@fdagosti) discuss cloud in the enterprise with the challenges modern applications bring. Don’t miss it! **Want to be Internet Famous? Join us for our next shoot: VMworld…

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re talking with Cisco Principal Engineer Shannon McFarland, about OpenStack for Enterprise. Lauren Friedman (@Lauren) moderates and Jeremiah Dooley and Patrick Swackhammer are this week’s Cisco Champion guest host…

The last several months have been a roll with several customers, channel partner and technology partner engagements. With the ACI starter kits and lab bundles shipping, customers can bring this solution into their labs and subsequently into their production Pods with the Application Policy Infrastru…

If you follow the news in the world of data center you probably noticed a small announcement from Cisco last week regarding the UCS portfolio…  🙂 To net it out in a simple way, I’ve been telling people that the trail of innovation that Cisco has been blazing with UCS  just got a lot wider.   That’s…

There has been some seismic activity happening in Bay Area and the epicenter for all Virtual Networking shifts is right here at Cisco HQ in San Jose. (Our sympathies go to all those affected by the real earthquake further to the north.)  At Cisco, it’s all about the applications and the shift to dyn…

According to GigaOM, the use of cloud-based resources will be what’s “next” for IT in preparation for an in-depth look at the infrastructure that will drive the next decade of application development. At the recent Structure event, GigaOM tapped into the minds of cloud-technology industry leaders, s…