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Simplifying How Customers Unleash the Power of Our Platforms
Simplifying How Customers Unleash the Power of Our Platforms
Delivering a simpler platform experience starts now. Discover how our new platform experience can enable operational simplicity, efficiency, and reliability to transform your business.

Cisco Nexus 9000 Intelligent Buffers in a VXLAN/EVPN Fabric
Cisco Nexus 9000 Intelligent Buffers in a VXLAN/EVPN Fabric
This blog post addresses some of the common areas of confusion and concern, and touches on a few best practices for maximizing the value of using Cisco Nexus 9000 switches for Data Center fabric deployments by leveraging the available Intelligent Buffering capabilities.

Disaster Recovery Solutions for the Edge with HyperFlex and Cohesity
Disaster Recovery Solutions for the Edge with HyperFlex and Cohesity
The edge computing architecture comes with a variety of benefits and unique challenges related to data protection and disaster recovery.
Barmherzige Brüder Österreich uses HyperFlex to power SAP HANA
Barmherzige Brüder Österreich, which operates a number of hospitals and assisted living facilities in Europe, recently improved the performance and availability of SAP HANA with two HyperFlex clusters.
Unleash the Power of Nexus Dashboard with the Connector for HashiCorp Terraform
We are announcing today a unique value proposition through our integration with Terraform Cloud for Business. Together with our strategic technology partner, HashiCorp, we are extending Nexus Dashboard to include a secure and compliant automation platform, complete with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities.
Establishing a Cloud Operating Model with On-prem Systems
With modern data center systems providing unprecedented levels of flexibility, automation, and policy-based consistency, any organization can now achieve cloud efficiency, speed, and scale.
Scaling your data center without scaling staff and operations
Systems simplicity and operational efficiency, are the hallmarks of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions like Cisco HyperFlex. Not only does HyperFlex help modernize a data center, it also enables infrastructure expansion without increasing your operational burden.
Recent Innovations in Cisco ACI – AlgoSec Solution for Network Security Policy Management
AlgoSec’s Security Management solutions for Cisco ACI extend ACI's policy-driven automation to security devices in ACI fabrics, provide visibility into the security posture of ACI, and helpensure continuous compliance across multi-cloud environments.
Cisco Storage Networking is 20 Years Young
Twenty years ago, Cisco started shipping the Cisco MDS 9000 storage networking switches. Since then, Cisco has introduced a number of groundbreaking storage networking innovations like Nexus switching and management technologies. These innovations have benefited our customers for decades now and have advanced the storage networking industry at large.
Keeping Your Apps and Data Available With HyperFlex
The Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform (HXDP) is a distributed hyperconverged infrastructure system that has been built from inception to handle individual component failures across the spectrum of hardware elements without interruption in services. As a result, the system is highly available and capable of extensive failure handling.
Top Ten Benefits of Upgrading from DCNM to NDFC SAN
In January 2023, we launched the third major release (12.1.2) of NDFC SAN Controller. This makes the perfect time to upgrade from DCNM to NDFC not just because three is a magic number, but also because of ten reasons that I am sharing in this post.
ACI Segmentation and Migrations made easier with Endpoint Security Groups (ESG)
Endpoint Security Groups (ESGs) are the new network security component in Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) which offer an alternate way of handling segmentation with the added flexibility of decoupling the earlier concepts of forwarding and security associated with Endpoint Groups (EPGs).