Let’s cut to the chase–you have probably wondering “what is Cisco going to do about SDN and OpenFlow?” Well, probably more than you expect, but before we get into that, I would respectfully suggest you are asking the wrong question. Cisco Open Network Environment (Cisco ONE) was created to deliver a specific capability to our customers: providing direct programmatic access to Cisco infrastructure.  As we were vetting this conc…

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Tags: Cisco ONE, SDN

Well, Interop Las Vegas 2012 has come and gone, and it was another exciting week for us. The folks at TechWiseTV caught up with Prashant Gandhi, our Senior Director of Product Marketing for network virtualization technology, to talk all about the latest innovation in the Nexus 1000V portfolio and where we are heading with what is increasingly becoming a very strategic platform for Cisco. Prashant really hits this interview out of the park, as he…

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Tags: Nexus 1000v, OTV, TechWiseTV, VXLAN

Once again, it’s the perfect storm of IT pros, all-you-can-eat-buffets, and outstanding content on end-user computing, and it all starts next week! But before I get to the part where I try to hijack your calendar with all the great Cisco VXI content available to you at VMworld 2011, I want to share some perspective from my visit to Metro Health in Grand Rapids Michigan last week.  It was a great opportunity to tour their campus, meet some of the…

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Tags: atlantis, collaboration, EMC, netapp, security, teradici, UCS, VCE, vdi, VMware, vmworld, vxi

First the news .. this week we got 455 answers ! So we definitely witness a fierce competition between the best brains! Congratulations to our two first winners of a new iPAD !! They already got an e-mail , and as soon as we have their agreement we will introduce them to you. Now don’t forget two important rules: – If you show up at this point of the competition you still can win a weekly iPAD and catch up for the Grand Prize (valueed $20…

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Tags: Cisco, contest, data center, desktop virtualization, ONE, Unified iQ

Today we wrap up our three part introduction of Cisco’s new hybrid cloud infrastructure, Nexus 1000V InterCloud. In Part 1, we provided an overview of the architecture and the components that make up Nexus 1000V InterCloud. In Part 2, we looked a bit more closely into the single pane management of the cloud network and resources across the on-premises private cloud and the cloud service provider. In Part 3, we’ll answer some of the most frequent…

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Tags: ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall, Citrix NetScaler VPX, Hybrid Cloud, Imperva SecureSphere WAF, Intelligent Automation for Cloud, Nexus 1000v, Nexus 1000V InterCloud, vsg, vWAAS