Today, I wanted to point out a couple of great resources to develop a deeper understanding of Cisco’s virtual switch, the Nexus 1000V. First, we were excited to have Prashant Gandhi, our Sr. Director of Product Management for the Nexus 1000V, be invited onto the latest Packet Pushers Podcast, hosted by Greg Ferro. If you aren’t yet familiar with the PP Podcasts, they are an entertaining technical dive into a wide range of networking concepts wit…

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Tags: Nexus 1000v, Virtual Security Gateway

  At VMworld yesterday, Ed Bugnion introduced our Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) for Nexus 1000V, which led to an avalanche of questions.  There is only so much you can do 140 characters at a time, so I thought this might work a bit better.  And, for those of you who weren’t at VMworld, here are answers to questions you didn’t even know you had. So, a bit of context first…   The Virtual Security Gate…

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If you missed our webcast on the upcoming Nexus 1000V release for Microsoft Hyper-V, you missed the announcement that we are now making available a beta version to the general public, as of March 6. (Note: Everyone asks, so, no, we haven’t announced the availability date for the GA version yet, but it’s coming soon). This should be great news for the large number of folks that we had to turn away that we couldn’t support in our earlier alp…

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Tags: Microsoft Hyper-V, Nexus 1000v, Nexus 1000V InterCloud, SCVMM, vsg, Windows Server 2012

I really enjoy writing blog entries to provide more details after our announcements. Having done that for past few Nexus announcements, I’d like to continue the tradition & provide a bit more color to our switching part of the announcement yesterday. So before we go into the details of switching – what actually did we announce? In a nutshell, we announced the evolution of our data center architectural strategy to the Cisco Data C…

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The Unified Network Services (UNS) portfolio of Layer 4-7 services (such as ACE and WAAS) also includes Cisco’s data center security solutions. A critical part of that security portfolio is our virtualization-aware firewall solution, Virtual Security Gateway (VSG). In a series of upcoming blog posts, I’ll be sharing a few use case scenarios that our customers are implementing with VSG. For those of you new to VSG, I’ll point out that VSG’s role…

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Tags: ACE, cloud, data center, firewall, NAM, Nexus 1000v, security, UNS, vdi, virtual deskop, Virtual Security Gateway, vsg, waas