Cisco ONE

January 28, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

New Year, New Challenges, New Successes: SDN Bringing Agility, Security and TCO to Campus and Branch Networks

4 min read

Before recently taking on a new role as Cisco’s vice president and general manager of Software-Defined Network (SDN) with the enterprise networking group, I served as the vice president and...

January 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

Is ACI Really SDN? One Point of View to Clarify the Conversation

6 min read

Perhaps I’m in the minority that is still frustrated by this, but as a marketing person who is tasked with explaining technology and solutions to customers and prospects, I...

December 11, 2013

DATA CENTER

SDN Reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference – Part 2

3 min read

Last week I started my SDN reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference, and I found I had quite a lot to discuss. Last week I covered: Do we need SDN? SDN and the Gartner Hype Cycle SDN Deployment Models So here is the concluding part. This week I’ll cover: Overlay-Based SDN — and the […]

November 15, 2013

DATA CENTER

Follow-up Q&A on ACI Methodology and the Pursuit of an Application-Aware Architecture

5 min read

We've been getting a lot of great questions about ACI since our launch as people try and better understand the...

November 6, 2013

DATA CENTER

Redefining the Power of IT with Application Centric Infrastructure

4 min read

After countless brainstorming sessions, code reviews, lab trials, scores of NDAs and nearly two years of intense speculation from media, analysts and the internet community – it is finally here!...

October 21, 2013

NETWORKING

MegaTrends: Network Programming and Cisco ONE in Enterprise Networks

5 min read

How do we evolve the IT architecture to enable an ever-increasing set of services while multiple MegaTrends are rapidly transforming the environment? How do you deliver the best possible experience to your users and applications while maintaining agility and keeping cost under control? Today, in my first blog after the summer break, I’d like to […]

October 15, 2013

DATA CENTER

Nexus 3100 at Interop

1 min read

On September 30th at Interop New York  we announced the Cisco Nexus 3100 top-of-rack flexible switches. The show floor was buzzing with the news and the Techwise TV video below with Senior Product Manager, Jag Tamvada and self proclaimed Chief Networking Geek Jimmy Ray Purser discuss details of the switches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EuaaWBRKBU&feature=share&list=PL932C620970B9A779

September 26, 2013

DATA CENTER

SDN: Cisco Domain Ten tells us it’s not (just) about the Network

4 min read

In my first SDN blog, I asserted that "Services" - that is technical support, professional and consultancy services - are the missing "S" in the SDN debate.  I'd...

September 11, 2013

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

The Programmable Network: IP and Optical Convergence

3 min read

Someday soon, personal sensors, wearable gadgets, and embedded devices and services may make today’s PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones look quaint by comparison. But as the Internet of Everything­ (IoE) ─ with its diverse array of devices accessing a plethora of existing and new services ─ continues to rapidly evolve, user friendly interfaces mask growing […]