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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

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

Hi there, I missed the updates during Summer, so this one is a bit more dense than usual 🙂  Hope you find something interesting! ACI software 1.1(3f) posted in CCO! 1.1(3f) Release Notes: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/aci/apic/sw/1-x/release/notes/apic_rn_113f.html This release contains mostly bug-fixes, plus the new feature “Deployment Warning and Policy Usage Information”: before updating a policy you can … Continue reading N9K/ACI update: September+

Hi there, fasten your seat belts, because these last weeks have been spectacular. Not because I was lazy and I am including here not just June, but the first July week (therefore “June+” and not only “June” update), but because Cisco Live happened, and a LOT of stuff has been going on. Take your time, … Continue reading June+ Cisco ACI/N9K news update

Biggest hit this month in my opinion was the release of the NXOS version 7.0(3)I1(2) for the Nexus 9000. I had the chance to test this in a real customer environment last week for VXLAN EVPN, and it worked great, specially in the network convergence area. Don’t miss other exciting stuff like Santiago’s videos on … Continue reading May update on Cisco ACI/N9K news

Hi there, I hope you had a happy Easter! For the ones having trouble keeping up with the fast and steady news flow on Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000, here my personal compilation of news in March. Enjoy! Breaking news: Cisco acquiring Embrane: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-announces-intent-to-acquire-embrane ACI passed the PCI DSS certification! Feature Navigator is there for … Continue reading March update on ACI / Nexus 9000 news