orchestration

Network Management: Don’t React – Act

The future will bring a lot of changes for telecoms, internet and cable service providers: more data, more devices and more services. Cisco’s research predicts that by 2021, annual global IP traffic will reach 3.3 zettabytes (that’s 3.3 trillion gigabytes). There are two ways things can go for servi…

A Network That Thinks for Itself

Networking today is a world of big opportunities – and big challenges. Telecoms, mobile, cloud and cable service providers are all facing increasing demands on their systems. Old approaches are no longer going to be enough. If they want to succeed in future, service providers are going to have to re…

Meet the Network Orchestration Experts at Cisco Live US 2018

Hello, it is that time of the year again!  Cisco Live US is upon us. If you are coming to Cisco Live US 2018 that is taking place in Orlando from June 10 through June 14, I’d like to tell you about Network Orchestration and Automation resources that you can take advantage of.  We have been sharing o…

Network Automation Update – the Maturing of NFV Deployment

We at Cisco have been delivering network orchestration and automation products for a number of years now. Our customers have deployed Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) with NFV Orchestration (NFVO) and Elastic Services Controller (ESC) to orchestrate physical and virtual network in productio…

Setting a New Standard for Production-Grade Kubernetes

Some of you may be surprised to learn about Cisco’s involvement in the open source community. In fact, we’ve been working with open source technologies for close to 20 years. We are heavily invested. Our releases of Cisco CloudCenter 4.9 and AppDynamics for Kubernetes today are not only milestones i…

April 25, 2018

CLOUD

Delivering On the Open Hybrid Cloud Promise with Kubernetes

When it comes to multicloud, containers are one of the most compelling technologies to emerge over the past few years. Containers offer new potential by making it possible for applications to start faster and use less memory, provide a consistent development environment, and run anywhere. However, c…

April 4, 2018

DEVELOPER

Managing Containers Made Easy with Kubernetes – DevOps Series, Part 2

If you followed my previous post you are now quite familiar with how Docker containers work. But we just covered the way to work with them manually. When you go into production environments you quickly realize manual management is not really a viable option. There are multiple reasons to avoid manua…

February 8, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Automation and Orchestration Help Customers Navigate Network Complexities

I’ve been working in the technology industry for three decades, and there’s never been a more complex—or exciting—time to be in IT. The complexity is self-evident: A large global enterprise might have hundreds of thousands of devices from different vendors, running a variety of proprietary and semi-…

January 17, 2018

INNOVATION

See Service Management and Orchestration from Edge to Cloud in Action at Cisco Live Barcelona

You can compare the Internet of Things (IoT) to the human body. When your hand picks up a –cup of hot tea or coffee, touch sensors in your fingers detect right away it is hot. Pain impulses to the nervous system signal the brain to let go of the cup. While actuators in the hand obey, the brain…