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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 […]

February 4, 2014

OPEN AT CISCO

OpenDaylight Unleashes Hydrogen to the Masses

4 min read

The OpenDaylight Project today announced that its first open source software release Hydrogen is now available for download. As the first simultaneous code release cross-community it has contributions across fifty organizations and includes over one million lines of code. Yes. ODL > 1MLOC. For those of you interested that’s approximately two hundred and thirty man-years of […]