Gary Kinghorn
Sr Solution Marketing Manager
Network Virtualization and SDN
Articles
Interview with Citrix on the Benefits of NetScaler Integration with Nexus 7000 and RISE
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It’s been a busy week at Interop in Las Vegas so far, and we’re getting a lot of interest in our new Remote Integrated Services Engine (RISE) technology for the Nexus 7000 Series switches, which Cisco unveiled earlier this week. RISE integrates service appliances attached to Nexus 7000 Series switches as if the appliance was directly connected […]
New Remote Integrated Services Engine (RISE) Enhances L4-7 Appliance Integration with Nexus 7000 Series
4 min read
Remote Integrated Service Engine (RISE) is a new protocol being added to the Nexus 7000 and 7700 platforms through NX-OS (software upgradeable to existing devices), that integrates service appliances to be attached to Nexus 7000 Series switches with the same benefits as if the appliance was directly connected to the switch backplane, as if it […]
Best of Interop Awards: Cisco APIC and Nexus 9516 Switch Selected as Finalists
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With Interop less than three weeks away, we were doubly excited to learn that
Improve Cloud Traffic Visibility with the New Cisco Prime Virtual NAM
2 min read
Earlier this year Cisco announced the Cisco Prime Virtual Network Analysis Module (vNAM), an integral component of the Cisco Cloud Network Services portfolio. While a virtual NAM has been available on the Nexus 1100 Cloud Services Platform (a UCS appliance for virtual services), it has not been available in a generic VM form factor, which […]
Availability of the Nexus 1000V Cloud Networking Platform for OpenStack Unveiled at Cisco live!
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Last week at Cisco live! Milan, we announced another milestone in our OpenStack strategy with the availability this quarter of the Nexus 1000V virtual networking platform for Linux Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor and integration with the commercial OpenStack distribution from Canonical (Ubuntu Linux and OpenStack). I had a chance to sit down in Milan […]
Rebuttal to VMware Comments on ACI and SDN Architectures
4 min read
In a January 13, 2014 NetworkWorld article, VMware executive, Steve Mullaney, compared VMware NSX to Cisco ACI and other SDN architectures. Cisco’s
Cisco ACI adds New Security and Application Delivery Vendors to Ecosystem: A10 Networks and Catbird
3 min read
Cisco announced last week that its rapidly expanding ACI ecosystem now includes the A10 Networks aCloud Services Architecture...
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...
VXLAN Taking a More Strategic Role in Cloud Networks with Support across Cisco Fabrics and Switching Platforms
5 min read
There’s been a lot of news and momentum surrounding VXLAN technology in the last several months, and there is no doubt that VXLAN is becoming a...
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