Thoughts from the clouds
Hi there! Amazing, another month has gone by, and there are a bunch of new stuff coming our way from the Cisco Nexus 9000 and ACI corner. Not only a new ACI software version with support for the new EX hardware, but a new way of managing VXLAN networks the easy way (awarded the Best … Continue reading ACI 1.3, NFM, CliQr, Austin and much, much more!
Hey there! Time for a new post with the latest news on Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000. Funny, I thought that the speed of innovation would go down with time, but it is actually going up! In my opinion, that has a lot to do with the extended partner ecosystem and the programmability possibilities of … Continue reading Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 last month news. Keep it coming!
Hi there, Really A LOT has been going on in the last weeks: we had Cisco Live in Berlin with record attendance, a successful Partner Summit in US, 2 major releases for both ACI and NXOS, acquisition announcements, an entry in a new market for Cisco and brand new hardware with new bandwidth standards. Not … Continue reading Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 news from the last 4 weeks…
Happy New Year! Yes, you are right, a bit late for that. As late as I am with the monthly newsletter, so I have lots of stuff for this edition. Let’s cut the nonsense and go where the beef is, because there is a lot of it: ACI one of the technologies of the year … Continue reading Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 news – February 2016
You might have heard the hype about microsegmentation in the DC, and multiple definitions of this term. Paraphrasing Juan Lage, it is the possibility of setting up policies with end point granularity. In other words, to be able to take any end point in the DC and change its security policies, without having to alter … Continue reading Microsegmentation and APIs: the perfect combination
First of all, Happy New Year! Thanks for looking at my first post in 2016. As you might already know, Cisco ACI is a new concept of network management. In short, it is a network that brings along embedded network management functionality, that sits in a centralised controller cluster. If you want to manage a … Continue reading A command-line REST client for ACI
Hey there, So this is probably my last post of the year, it has been a fun ride! So far I have been able to keep the goal “no post without code” (excluding the news updates), let’s see if I can keep it up next year. But let’s turn to our matter of the day. Have … Continue reading Firewall insertion with ACI
After a long time without blogging, two entries in one day. I wanted to share some ideas about network dashboards and Cisco ACI. If you are managing a “traditional network” (that is, everything that is not called ACI :-), you are probably familiar with non-network folks rolling their eyes when they see you typing CLI commands … Continue reading Network dashboards
Hi there, sorry for the delay in this edition, but I wanted to wait until ACI 1.2 hits the road. I had some early releases in my lab and I have to tell you: it is AWESOME. But don’t let me bore you, here you have my summary of past month until today: Happy birthday … Continue reading ACI/N9K news: 1.2 is here!
Winter is coming closer, and we are in the count down before the next big ACI release comes (code named “Brazos”) with lots of operational enhancements, amongst other things. In the meantime, this is what has been going on in the ACI/N9K area this past month of October: Puppet for ACI: https://github.com/datacenter/puppet-aci. The Puppet Device framework … Continue reading ACI/N9K news update: October
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