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Cisco ACI and Radware – From Point Solutions to Application Centric Services
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Radware’s Alteon ADC and DefensePro integrated with Cisco ACI fabric enable IT managers drive greater value from their Cisco ACI deployment with automated tenant-based application delivery and security services. For...
Cisco APIC Makes Best of Interop 2015 Finalist
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With Interop less than three weeks away, we are excited to learn that Cisco APIC, the SDN controller for...
The Power of the ACI Toolkit: The “Snapback” App
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I recently wrote in my blog about a partner, WWT, that quickly developed a network replication solution across dual DC using the programming interface on the APIC. Our own...
Federated ACI Fabrics for Dual Data Center Deployments – A Disaster Recovery ACI use-case
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Wins, Accomplishments, Fast Action, welcome to the world of Cisco ACI. In this blog, I want to take you closer to the core of ACI excitement. Cisco Insieme Business...
New Cisco APIC Software allows stretched ACI Fabric across long distances
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In the world of Cisco ACI, there is never a shortage of excitement and action. Today, we are pleased to bring to your attention news about the latest Cisco...
Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 Activities at Cisco Live Milan 2015
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Interested in learning more about Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and Nexus 9000? We are hosting a myriad of activities here at Cisco Live Milan 2015! With Meet the Expert...
Cisco Live Milan 2015: Hi-Tech revisits City of Tradition and Fashion
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When I first visited Milan last year in January, the occasion was Cisco Live and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the Alpine city is known as much for...
Software Defined Networks with L4-L7 ADC Policy Automation
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It appears only a short time ago we introduced Cisco ACI to the market, but it is already the one-year anniversary time. In this one-year period, we have seen...
Take One small step with the ACI Simulator, Make a giant leap in ACI Fabric deployments
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Cisco ACI is gaining momentum and mindshare in the industry as testified by the 160 plus licensees for the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), and 900 plus customers for...
Transform DevOps with CA Release Automation and Cisco ACI
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DevOps is gaining momentum in many enterprises today. Customers are increasingly realizing the benefits of DevOps and how it helps in breaking down barriers and helps application agility. DevOps enables...
Cisco Live Cancun – Hi-Tech visits Vacation Paradise
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Cancun in November is not your ideal spring break destination, but it feels that way as many of us are heading there next week as part of a big contingent...
Cisco ACI Policy Model spans Physical, Virtual and Container based environments
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I find Linux containers among the most fascinating technology trends of recent past. Containers couple lightweight, high performance isolation and security with the ability to easily package services and deploy...
Citrix NetScaler Device Package for Cisco ACI goes FCS
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The Cisco-Citrix partnership has expanded significantly in recent years from UCS-XenDesktop based Desktop virtualization solutions to span Mobility, Desktop as A Service (DaaS) and most recently ACI-NetScaler joint solutions. I have been...
F5 device Package for Cisco APIC goes FCS
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Recent few weeks should have been exciting if you are a customer of ACI. First, we announced the shipment of ACI to Data Centers worldwide. Then, F5 announced that...
Cisco at F5 Agility – From Copenhagen to New York
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You are probably thinking I have the most exciting job in Silicon Valley. In June 2014, I was leading Cisco ACI at the EMEA (Copenhagen) edition of F5 Agility....
Cisco ACI at F5 Agility 2014, Copenhagen
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At F5 Agility 2014 Copenhagen this month, Applications take the central stage. The key focus area is Application Delivery Controllers (ADC’s as Gartner calls them) and how they are...
Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 wins Best of Interop Japan, 2014
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Success breeds success. In April this year, Cisco Nexus 9516 won the Best of Interop at Las Vegas. Yesterday, Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 won the Best of Interop...
OpenStack with ACI whiteboard Video illustrations by Lucien Avramov
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According to Gartner’s Andrew Lerner, many of the networking practitioners running mainstream corporate networks have only surface-level knowledge of OpenStack as evidenced in his recent blog. To assist networkers...
ACI Walkabout at CiscoLive 2014, San Francisco
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In a few days at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, we will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of Cisco Live. This year we are expecting record attendance exceeding...
Cisco ACI’s Multi-Hypervisor + BareMetal Interop with VLAN and VXLAN Routing and Bridging Demonstration
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In November last year, I introduced via my blog, the powerful capabilities of the ACI Fabric and the unique hardware based VXLAN implementation in Cisco Nexus 9000...
IT Brand Pulse recognizes Cisco as Innovation leader in 7 Data Center Categories
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Cisco ACI has been making waves in the industry since its launch in Nov 2013. At Interop, Las Vegas in April 2014, Cisco Nexus 9516 bagged the Best...
Cisco ACI with OpenStack at Redhat Summit – A perfect Pairing
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Last week at Redhat Summit in San Francisco, Cisco Data center was well represented in speaking sessions, and solutions expo. I saw lots of traffic at our demo...
Cisco Nexus 9516 wins best of Interop award
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The Best of Interop Awards for 2014 were announced today at 5.30 PM, at the Interop Theater. Cisco Nexus 9516 switch won the Best of Interop award in the Data...
Cisco Data Center at Interop 2014 – Rebecca’s Keynote, Best of Interop Finalist, Customer Luncheon and many …
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Finally, Interop 2014 is around the corner and Las Vegas is heating up belying the wintry conditions as I step out of the airport. Two weeks ago, two of...
Best of Interop Finalist 2014 – Meet Cisco Nexus 9516 the new big, bad boy of Nexus 9000 Family
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The Nexus 9516 is the latest addition to the Nexus 9000 family of switches and it is already making headlines everywhere. The crowning moment came two weeks ago, when the...
Cisco Live Milan 2014: Where Hi-Tech meets Fashion and Tradition
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I am neither an AC Milan soccer fan nor a connoisseur of haute couture, so it will be no surprise if you wondered what I am doing in Europe’s fashion...
Cisco Nexus 9000 Community on GitHub
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If you are an open source fan, in particular GitHub, I have good news for you. Yes, we now have a Cisco Nexus 9000 community on GitHub. While...
Close Peek at Cisco ACI : Network Abstraction, VXLAN, Programmability
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Last week was a memorable one for me in more ways than one. First, the unveiling of Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) specifics by John Chambers and his Executive Management...
Cisco UCS Rocks at Oracle Open World
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You must be thinking I am joking, when I say that there is an affinity between me and San Francisco Moscone center. Yes, August end, I was there for VMworld...
My Experience at VMworld, San Francisco, 2013
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This year at VMworld, San Francisco, I had a choice, to attend either as a Visitor or as a Demo Booth staffer. I quickly chose the latter, as I could...
Will your Citrix XenApp infrastructure perform for thousands of mobile users?
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The number of mobile devices in our companies are exploding - and one of the fastest and best ways to deliver all those existing Windows-based apps to these devices is...
Citrix at CiscoLive – From Disneyland to Disneyworld
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You’re probably thinking I have the best job in Silicon Valley. Last month I was running the Cisco UCS – with Citrix XenDesktop demos at Citrix Synergy in Anaheim....
Title: Citrix XenDesktop 7 and FlexPod – a Perfect Pairing
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Hot on the heels of a hopping Citrix Synergy two weeks ago, Citrix just broadcast on June 11, a fascinating discussion between senior Citrix, NetApp and Cisco executives on the...
Looking for Action? Citrix Synergy or Disneyland – or Both
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I am looking forward to next week’s Citrix Synergy conference in Anaheim, Los Angeles with sense of great anticipation. If you are fortunate enough to be attending, I am sure...
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