OpFlex

May 13, 2014

DATA CENTER

Delivering Policy in the Age of Open Source

This is an exciting time in the history of datacenter infrastructure.  We are witnessing the collision of two major trends: the maturation of open source software and the redefinition of infrastructure policy. The trend towards open source is self-evident.  Platforms such as OpenStack and OpenDaylig…

May 5, 2014

DATA CENTER

Acxiom uses ACI to transform their private cloud

Acxiom is a well-known Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company providing data analytics and data processing solutions to Fortune 100 companies for running and analyzing their marketing campaigns.  Recently Cisco spoke to Acxiom’s senior managers Kamal Kharrat, and Chuck Crane, about Cisco’s Application…

April 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Citrix Partnership will shine at Citrix Synergy 2014

In case you didn’t notice , the partnership between Citrix and Cisco has been growing nicely over the part 2 years in many areas . Amongst numerous areas of collaboration here are some common solutions that will be highlighted at the coming conference Citrix Synergy Cisco Enterprise Mobility soluti…

April 14, 2014

DATA CENTER

Interop Redux: Focus on Virtual L4-7 Services with Embrane

Our recap of Interop 2014 continues with a focus on Cisco technology partner Embrane, who focuses on integration of layer 4-7 virtual services into cloud and data center networks, including its own virtual load balancer, firewall and VPN. Embrane describes its heleos platform and heleos Elastic Serv…

April 10, 2014

DATA CENTER

The Napkin Dialogues: “Open”-ing up to SDN

I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent individual. Well, perhaps “reasonably” is a debatable term; just ask my friends. Or my wife. (Then again, don’t ask my wife.) Reasonable or not, though, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around what all this “software defi…

April 3, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco Global Intercloud : Open and Interoperable

Enterprises have taken on many cloud computing opportunities but for the most part the adoption of applications on the cloud is very early and mostly for new applications and for development and test use cases.  Many  enterprise applications have not been considered for cloud due to their legacy dep…

April 2, 2014

DATA CENTER

Introducing OpFlex – A new standards-based protocol for Application Centric Infrastructure

Continuing on its tradition of contributing and committing to open source and open standards over the last 25 years, today Cisco announced “OpFlex” – a new open standards-based protocol for Application Centric Infrastructure that has been submitted into the IETF standardization process. We believe t…