Application Virtual Switch

July 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Power of Open Choice in Hypervisor Virtual Switching

3 min read

Customers gain great value from server virtualization in the form of virtual machines (VM) and more recently Linux Containers /Dockers in data centers, clouds and branches.  By some estimates, more than 60 % of the workloads are virtualized although less than 16% of the physical servers (IDC) are virtualized (running a hypervisor).  From a networking perspective, the hypervisor […]

November 11, 2013

DATA CENTER

Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and the Application Virtual Switch (AVS)

3 min read

Following our launch of the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), we continue with our series exploring in more detail key aspects of the ACI policy model and partner ecosystem....

November 7, 2013

DATA CENTER

Introducing Cisco Application Virtual Switch – Extending Virtual Networking to Applications

2 min read

Cisco has been the leader in virtual networking since the introduction of Nexus 1000V virtual switch more than 5 years ago.  Now it is time to make the virtual network more application aware.  With the introduction of the Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), we are pleased to introduce the Application Virtual Switch (AVS), the virtual network […]