Welcome to San Francisco for one the most exciting events of the year! Here’s a short blog post that will help you connect with the Intelligent Automation team at VMworld and learn about new solution developments and releases. In particular, you will be interested to see a brand new demo featuring Virtual Network Management Center 2.0. VNMC is a centralized device and security policy management software, which works together with Cisco Virtual…

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Tags: Cisco Intelligent Automation, cloud, Cloud Builder, Cloud Management, events, unified management, VMware, vmworld

I was speaking with a customer the other day and they asked me a seemingly innocent question, “If VMware is all about abstracting hardware from software, why do hardware vendors bother going to VMworld?” I say “innocent question” because the customer didn’t mean any harm, he ran the application development group for a large Enterprise, but obviously this is an interesting question because today’s Data Ce…

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VMworld last week was a great success for Cisco (well, if you don’t count the #v0dgeball challenge). Leading up to the show we announced that the ASA 1000V cloud firewall was shipping, we announced a new major release of the Nexus 1000V virtual switch, and a new version of our Virtual Network Management Center. Talking to customers is always the best part of the show, hearing what their challenges are, and positioning our technology to fit…

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Tags: Cisco ONE, Nexus 1000v, OpenStack, vmworld, VXLAN

As VMworld swings into high gear on a bright Monday morning in San Francisco (well it promises to be bright, once the sun comes up here), we continue our series on the virtualization product updates we are unveiling this week (see earlier news on the new Nexus 1000V and the ASA Cloud Firewall). One of the exciting new components of our Nexus 1000V virtualization stack is the Cisco Virtual Network Management Center (VNMC) 2.0, part of the Intelli…

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Tags: ASA 1000V, intelligent automation, Nexus 1000v, Virtual Network Management Center, Virtual Security Gateway, vmworld, VNMC, vsg

Jeramiah Dooley, Guest Blogger  @ jdooley_clt: Jeramiah Dooley brings more than 17 years of technology experience to the VCE Office  of the CTO.  Previously he was the global SME for Service Provider business development, multi-tena ncy and vCloud Director design as part of the VCE Corporate Engineering Group.  Prior to joining VCE, he was the Director of Engineering at Peak 10, a service provider based in Charlotte, NC, where directed the overa…

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Tags: Jeramiah Dooley, Vblock, VCE, vmworld