application centric infrastructure
Cisco IT’s Road to Application Centric Infrastructure: Organizational Readiness and the Program Team
Cisco IT is early in the journey to deploying an application centric infrastructure (ACI). This journey requires us to look at the IT organization differently. When we started...
Acxiom uses ACI to transform their private cloud
Acxiom is a well-known Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company providing data analytics and data processing solutions to Fortune 100 companies for running and analyzing their marketing campaigns. Recently Cisco spoke to Acxiom’s...
#EngineersUnplugged S5|Ep9: Why ACI?
In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged, Jim French (@CiscoJimFrench) and Bill Gurling (@vDingus) talk about Why ACI in the modern data center. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i-XLYvcnso This is Engineers...
ACI enables a world class Service Oriented IT organization
Private Clouds are fundamentally challenging how modern data centers are acquiring and consuming IT. Nearly half of large enterprises polled[1] have deployed a private cloud, its reasonable to...
Cisco’s Commitment to Openness and Interoperability will be on Display at Red Hat Summit 2014
Change is good. After a successful run of four years in Boston, Red Hat Summit moves to San Francisco this year from April 14-17. Red Hat Summit has...
Introducing OpFlex – A new standards-based protocol for Application Centric Infrastructure
Continuing on its tradition of contributing and committing to open source and open standards over the last 25 years, today Cisco announced “OpFlex” – a new open standards-based protocol for Application Centric Infrastructure that has been submitted into the IETF standardization process. We believe this will accelerate multi-vendor innovation in data center and cloud networks […]
New Applications are Knocking! Is your data center OPEN for business?
Mark your calendars. On April 2nd at Interop this week we will be bringing you an exciting new webcast - "New Applications are Knocking! Is your Data Center...
Best of Interop Awards: Cisco APIC and Nexus 9516 Switch Selected as Finalists
With Interop less than three weeks away, we were doubly excited to learn that
#EngineersUnplugged S5|Ep2: ACI and Traditional Networking
This is an amazing episode of Engineers Unplugged, where two technologists from the community, Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000) and Colin Lynch (@ucsguru) discuss how ACI disrupts traditional...