In a recent post, I previewed some new hybrid cloud market research from Forrester that spoke to the business drivers and technical hurdles to cloud integration, and Shashi Kiran  has recently posted about lowering the barriers to hybrid cloud adoption. Today, as part of a larger cloud technology launch, Cisco is announcing a new hybrid cloud solution, Nexus 1000V InterCloud. One of the fundamental capabilities for the world of many clouds is th…

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Tags: ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall, Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud, Cisco Prime NAM, forrester, Hybrid Cloud, InterCloud, LISP, Nexus 1000v, OTV, private cloud, Public Cloud, Virtual Security Gateway, vPath, vsg, vWAAS, VXLAN

For those of you wondering about the impact to Cisco of Software Defined Networking and the combined SDN strategy of VMware and Nicira, I point you to a very rational and well-articulated article by Mike Fratto of Network Computing, that basically says Cisco doesn’t have much to worry about. (Enterprise Strategy Group had already said something similar, by the way). Specifically, Fratto says: The lack of programmability in existing networking ha…

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Tags: Cisco ONE, Cisco Open Network Environment, FabricPath, LISP, Nexus 1000v, Nexus 5000, Nexus 7000, Nicira, OpenStack, OTV, SDN, software defined networking, virtual network overlays, VMware, vPath, VXLAN

For anyone who has ventured to a tech conference, flown into an airport or even driven down CA highway 101 this past year, it’s clear that cloud is still top of mind for many technical and business decision makers. We believe this means that enterprises are no longer just talking the talk, but are looking deeper into their networking infrastructure to see if they are ready to meet the challenges of cloud, virtualization and workload mobil…

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Tags: cloud, data center security, gary kinghorn, network virtualization, Nexus 1000v, Nexus 1010, Nexus 1010-X, Tina Feng, virtual networking, Virtual Security Gateway, vPath, vsg, VXLAN

VSM's across remote data centers Nothing sits around and gets stale for long at Cisco (outside the break rooms anyway). On the heels of shipping our Nexus 1000V 1.5.2 release earlier this week (which you can download from here), we are ramping up to show the upcoming generation of the virtual switch next week at VMworld in San Francisco. This new major release 2.1 will be going into beta in October, and will represent a quantum leap in eas…

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Tags: ASA 1000V, Cisco ONE, CSR 1000V, Hyper-V, NAM, Nexus 1000v, OpenStack, TrustSec, Virtual Network Management Center, Virtual Security Gateway, virtual switch, VMware, vmworld, VNMC, vPath, vsg, VXLAN

At Microsoft Management Summit 2013 in Las Vegas this week, Cisco is showing a host of new technology innovations and integrated solutions for the virtualized data center. By bringing Cisco virtual networking and UCS solutions together with Microsoft cloud solutions, we are expanding the market for our technology, while providing more technology options and flexibility for our customers. Critical to our Microsoft infrastructure strategy is the N…

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Tags: EMC, FlexPod, Hyper-V, Microsoft, netapp, Nexus 1000v, SCVMM, UCS, Unified Data Center, Virtual Security Gateway, vPath, vspex, Windows Server 2012