SDN

November 7, 2013

DATA CENTER

Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI): Application Network Profiles for Security and Network Services

Now that we’ve announced the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), everyone is trying to come up to speed quickly on this new fabric architecture and the power that this revolutionary application-centric model will bring to data center and cloud automation. One of the best insights to ACI…

November 6, 2013

DATA CENTER

Redefining the Power of IT with Application Centric Infrastructure

After countless brainstorming sessions, code reviews, lab trials, scores of NDAs and nearly two years of intense speculation from media, analysts and the internet community – it is finally here! Today, Cisco is pulling back the curtains to reveal details of the vision of Application Centric Infrastr…

October 23, 2013

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

The Internet of Everything and the Digital Industrial Economy

As we continue to progress toward an Internet of Everything (IoE) digital world, organizations will need to think strategically about IT budgets and smart spending in order to keep pace with the changing landscape. CEO’s want a flexible, adaptable enterprise, and IT needs to deliver “fast IT” for th…

October 23, 2013

DATA CENTER

ACI addresses the Data Center Agility Gap

To know more about Application Centric Infrastructure join us for a special webcast  with John Chambers and Soni Jiandani on November 6th at 10:30 am EST/7:30 pm PST/15:30 GMT Register Here  Revolutions are usually led by challengers, not incumbents.  But Cisco’s Nov. 6th mega-launch of Application…

October 21, 2013

DATA CENTER

The Promise of an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

At Cisco live! Orlando in June, Cisco unveiled its vision for an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a next-generation, secure data center fabric design. At the time, we were only able to unveil key conceptual aspects of ACI, but as we lead up to more detailed product announcements later this…

October 15, 2013

DATA CENTER

Nexus 3100 at Interop

On September 30th at Interop New York  we announced the Cisco Nexus 3100 top-of-rack flexible switches. The show floor was buzzing with the news and the Techwise TV video below with Senior Product Manager, Jag Tamvada and self proclaimed Chief Networking Geek Jimmy Ray Purser discuss details of the…

October 10, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Despite budget constraints, spending on cyber security set to increase according to Cisco study of government IT decisio …

While the shutdown challenges in the federal government over the past week have been top-of-mind, a recent Cisco survey has discovered that when operations resume, overall budget constraints are seen as the greatest challenge to government IT infrastructure, even ranking ahead of cyber attacks. This…

October 9, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco Domain Ten: The Compendium

It’s hard to believe but it’s ten months since I first blogged on  Cisco Domain TenSM,  which is Cisco Service’s framework to guide you on your path to data center and cloud transformation. I’ve now covered all ten domains of this concise and powerful model.  I’ll now c…

September 30, 2013

PARTNER

Partner Voices: Why Agile Tools and Processes Are Critical to IT Operations

This is the latest in a series of posts featuring partner success stories where partners share how they’re helping customers achieve their goals by using Cisco technology. This week we’re featuring Colin McNamara, Nexus IS Director of Cloud Practice and Chief Cloud Architect.  Software Defined Netwo…