KVM

April 12, 2018

DATA CENTER

ACI loves KVM and Red Hat Virtualization

5 min read

Red Hat Virtualization provides a powerful solution for modern data centers. Additional ACI integrations for network and security automation can dramatically simplify DC operations and application provisioning.

August 15, 2017

DEVELOPER

The Why, What, and How of App Hosting on Routers

5 min read

What if every time you wanted to roll out an app, you didn’t need to figure out what new computer/server you were going to put it on? What if I...

April 20, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco Nexus 1000V Now Supports VMware vSphere 6.0

1 min read

Following up on my blog post announcing our intent to support VMware vSphere 6.0 environments with Cisco Nexus 1000V, I am...

July 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Power of Open Choice in Hypervisor Virtual Switching

3 min read

Customers gain great value from server virtualization in the form of virtual machines (VM) and more recently Linux Containers /Dockers in data centers, clouds and branches.  By some estimates, more than 60 % of the workloads are virtualized although less than 16% of the physical servers (IDC) are virtualized (running a hypervisor).  From a networking perspective, the hypervisor […]

April 7, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco’s Commitment to Openness and Interoperability will be on Display at Red Hat Summit 2014

2 min read

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...

February 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

…And The Momentum Continues! New Nexus Data Center Innovations AND Customer Deployments!

3 min read

You probably have already heard that during CiscoLive Milan, we have unveiled the new additions to our Data Center and Cloud networking portfolio: New Nexus 7706 and a high density F3 Series 1/10G module for Nexus 7700 provide increased deployment options for data center interconnect, core or aggregation. The next generation Nexus 5600 family offers VXLAN […]

February 7, 2014

DATA CENTER

Availability of the Nexus 1000V Cloud Networking Platform for OpenStack Unveiled at Cisco live!

1 min read

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 […]

June 11, 2013

DATA CENTER

Red Hat Summit, Nexus 1000V and All Things Open

2 min read

This week kicked off with a trip to Boston and Red Hat Summit where Cisco is talking about our partnership with Red Hat on open source projects including OpenStack, and the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. I’m here to highlight some of our Nexus 1000V virtual networking innovations that involve Red Hat open source distributions […]