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Changes, Part 2 – So, What Do We Do With That?
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Last week, in part 1 of this 3 part series, we discussed how Digitization* is driving change. We also covered how Changes (cue** David Bowie) are manifesting themselves in...
Changes, Part 1 – David Bowie, Containers and Cisco Live Berlin
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On January 10, David Bowie passed away. He was an icon in the music world, with a career spanning 5 decades, and selling 140 million albums, with many going to...
Top 3 Ways New ACI Innovations Improve Your Data Center
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Yesterday, Cisco announced a new software release for ACI. If you are looking to automate IT, or build out your cloud environment, and want to do so in an open fashion...
CCIE : ITD and RISE in CCIE Data Center
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ITD and RISE are now part of CCIE Data Center: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/certifications/ccie_data_center/written-exam-v2/exam-topics Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is a hardware based multi-terabit layer 4 load-balancing, traffic steering and services...
Project Contiv – Infrastructure Operational Policy Specification for Containerized Application Deployment
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One of the biggest disruptions in the IT world is upon us. 10 years ago it was server virtualization, more recently the adoption of cloud – both private and public. One could argue that cloud adoption is still ongoing. But I think a more fundamental disruption is happening with the way applications are going to be built, deployed and […]
Microservices Infrastructure – Mantl – Release 0.4
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During the OpenStack Summit last week, we released Mantl 0.4. In this blog I would like to go into more details about the release. But first I’d like to start by explaining what Mantl is – and what it is not. System Integration as Open Source Mantl is a layered stack that takes care of […]
Server Load balancing with NAT, using Nexus switches: ITD
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Server load balancer (SLB) has become very common in network deployments, as the data & video traffic are expanding at rapid rate. There are various modes of SLB deployments today. Application...
Composable Infrastructure, Part 2: What are the Benefits?
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We recently sat down with IDC analyst, Jed Scaramella, to talk about an interesting and accelerating trend in data center technology: composable infrastructure. With UCS M-Series servers, Cisco has taken an important step forward in this space. To help frame things up, we asked Jed for his take on the market drivers and customer needs […]
ITD: Load Balancing, Traffic Steering & Clustering using Nexus 5k/6k/7k/9k
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Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is an innovative solution to bridge the performance gap between a multi-terabit switch and gigabit servers and appliances. It is a hardware based multi-terabit layer...
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