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OpFlex

June 16, 2015

DATA CENTER

How Cisco’s data center is built on openness

1 min read

As customers embrace cloud strategy to build an agile data center, one of the key pillars is openness. Why openness? To move fast, accelerate time-to-market, drive higher level of innovation and avoid vendor lock-in are some of the benefits to openess. What does open mean? In this case, open source, open standards, open interfaces, open API’s, […]

October 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

The Top Five Myths about Cisco ACI

4 min read

It’s been almost a year since Cisco publicly unveiled its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). As we’ve noted in the past, ACI had to overcome a number of...

October 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

The Benefits of an Application Policy Language in Cisco ACI: Part 4 – Application Policies for DevOps

3 min read

[Note: This is the last installment of a four-part series on the OpFlex protocol in Cisco ACI, how it enables an application-centric policy model, and why other SDN protocols do not.  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3] As noted earlier in this series, modern DevOps applications such as Puppet, Chef, and CFEngine have […]

October 14, 2014

DATA CENTER

The Benefits of an Application Policy Language in Cisco ACI: Part 2 – The OpFlex Protocol

4 min read

[Note: This is the second of a four-part series on the OpFlex protocol in Cisco ACI, how it enables an application-centric policy model, and why other SDN protocols do not.  Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4] Following on from the first part of our series, this blog post takes a closer look at […]

October 10, 2014

DATA CENTER

The Benefits of an Application Policy Language in Cisco ACI: Part 1 – Enabling Automation

4 min read

[Note: This is the first of a four-part series on the OpFlex protocol in Cisco ACI, how it enables an application-centric policy model, and why other SDN protocols do not.  Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4] IT departments and lines of business are looking at cloud automation tools and software-defined networking (SDN) architectures […]

September 8, 2014

DATA CENTER

Citrix NetScaler Device Package for Cisco ACI goes FCS

2 min read

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...

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 […]

July 23, 2014

TECHWISETV

ACI Momentum Continues

2 min read

We embarked upon this episode with an agenda. Take a sample...

July 2, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

#CiscoChampion Radio S1|Ep18 ACI Updates

8 min read

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists hosted by Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week we're talking about ACI Updates with Cisco Product Management Director,...