Cisco Blog > Data Center and Cloud
May 23, 2013 at 4:00 am PST
Nexus 1000V is a finalist for Best of TechEd
Cisco is making a big splash with our virtual networking portfolio at Microsoft TechEd North America 2013, running June 3-6 in New Orleans, Microsoft’s premier event for IT professionals and developers. There will be over 7,000 attendees and there is still time to make plans to get there yourself if you want to learn more about Cisco’s role in the Microsoft ecosystem. For details, visit our show microsite.
The event is well-timed with the GA release of our Nexus 1000V virtual switch for the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor reaching customers next week. Not coincidently, the Nexus 1000V has been selected as a finalist in the 2013 Best of TechEd awards in the Virtualization category and is eligible for the overall Attendees Pick award for the show. (If you do go as an attendee, make sure to vote early and often, as they say!)
It’s great to see the enthusiasm and interest in our whole virtual networking portfolio as we ramp up to tap this market in a big way now. I’ve been writing the last couple of months about how much interest there was in the beta version and how well it was received, and how we’ve removed the main barrier to adoption by making the Essential version of the Nexus 1000V virtual switch available at no cost.
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Tags: Hyper-V, InterCloud, Microsoft TechEd, Nexus 1000v, SCVMM, vPath
April 9, 2013 at 4:00 am PST
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 Nexus 1000V virtual switch for the Hyper-V hypervisor in Windows Server 2012 and integrated with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). Cisco’s Microsoft-oriented data center architectures, rooted by UCS and Nexus 1000V are proven to save customers’ OpEx and CapEx.
Nexus 1000V for Hyper-V
Our new version of Nexus 1000V for Hyper-V has been in wide use for the last several weeks since we opened up the public beta to all volunteers. The availability of Nexus 1000V and these go to market initiatives with Microsoft are the culmination of 3 years of joint effort between the companies, including developing the ecosystem for completely integrated solutions. These fully integrated solutions include VSPEX, FlexPod (with EMC and NetApp) that enable channel partners to deliver value to end customers.
The feedback we’ve been getting from the beta users of the new Nexus 1000V has been really positive. If you missed the insights from Microsoft MVP, Damian Flynn, when he presented at one of our online webinars, you can hear him talk about his experiences here.
What we consistently hear from customers is the Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V:
- Offers consistent operational experience across physical, virtual, and mixed hypervisor environments
- Reduces operational complexity through dynamic policy provisioning and mobility aware network policies
- Improves security through integrated virtual services and advanced Cisco NX-OS features
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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
February 11, 2013 at 1:37 pm PST
We had some sneak peeks at CiscoLive in London but as you probably know by now, this stuff was just formally announced last week. Several demos worth looking at give you the foundation for what is important. Shashi Kiran is leading this effort and you can always count on a good quote:
“Cisco takes Unified Fabric to the next level delivering compelling customer value in an evolutionary manner, we offer a switch with the industry’s highest 40GbE density per rack unit, the simplest solution for the hybrid cloud model, and the most extensible network controller.”
Interesting….tell us more…
Three areas of innovation: How we Scale (Nexus 6000), how we enable the Hybrid deployment model (Nexus 1000v InterCloud) and how we open it all up with Cisco ONE (Open Networking Environment)
The family expands with the Nexus 6000
The new Nexus 6004 switch offers extremely
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
February 4, 2013 at 9:00 am PST
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 the ability to link various cloud environments into a single extended fabric with consistent capabilities, operations and management. While previous Unified Fabric innovation has focused on physical/virtual consistency of the DC fabric, this announcement brings that consistency to the cloud. This new technology from Cisco extends the existing networking capabilities, L4-7 services and manageability of your enterprise into public and provider clouds to create a single consistent, reliable, predictable environment for all your physical, virtual and cloud workloads. This secure and seamless degree of integration to the hybrid cloud frees you to run and move applications where it makes the most sense, on-demand, without compromise.
[Note: Join us for a Live Announcement Webcast February 5: Register Here]
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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
January 29, 2013 at 4:00 am PST
We are ramping up another news cycle around our Nexus 1000V and cloud network services portfolio this week at Cisco live! in London. Among the updates, business security solutions vendor Imperva is demonstrating integration of its SecureSphere Web Application Firewall (WAF) into the Nexus 1000V vPath service insertion architecture. This marks the first third party product to participate in the Cisco vPath architecture, which allows virtual services to be easily inserted and chained into Cisco virtual networks and virtual overlays.
[Note: Join Cisco for a Live Announcement Webinar on Cloud Innovations on February 5: Register Here]
Regular readers of our data center and cloud blog will probably recall the importance of vPath in enabling virtual services for virtualized multi-tenant cloud environments, and for allowing policy mobility along with VM mobility. The Cisco vPath architecture currently supports our own virtual services including Virtual Security Gateway (VSG), the ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall, and virtual WAAS for WAN optimization. vPath also boosts performance of service traffic paths and orchestrates service chaining so that VM traffic is processed in a ordered chain defined by policy.
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Tags: ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall, Cloud Services Platform, Imperva, Nexus 1000v, Nexus 1110, SecureSphere, Virtual Security Gateway, vPath, Web Application Firewall
