Thoughts from the clouds
Imagine you are an IT admin. Your cellular rings while you are drinking your ritual cup of tea in the cafeteria: “why don’t you answer on our Instant Messenger? We have a serious problem in our production environment”. So much for your tea break. Anyhow, back to your desktop, and on to the Incident Management … Continue reading A Recipe for DevOps: APIs + Collaboration + Analytics
I have to apologise because of skipping last month’s update, what has led to a massive update today. If you thought that 2 years after ACI’s launch the speed of innovation would decrease, just have a look at all the new stuff below (and I assure you, it is not all of it). Without any doubt, … Continue reading Tetration analytics, ACI 2.0 and much more!
Lately I have been involved in quite some conversations, where organisations have shown a lot of interest in the integration between Cisco ACI and F5 BigIP and BigIQ (or should I say iWorkflow?). As you might know, Cisco ACI offers the option to integrate L4-L7 services in the network. What does this mean? Optionally, you … Continue reading What do Cisco ACI, microsegmentation, service insertion, REST and Docker containers have in common?
Do you have a network lab to try out new technologies? Then you might have experienced this problem: you finished testing technology A, and you start testing technology B. For that you need to reconfigure your devices, obviously. Now you need to try out something new in technology A, for example a new functionality brought … Continue reading Using NX-API to deploy full networks
You might remember my old post on Linux container integration with ACI by using the “network=none” option in the old Docker implementation: http://erjosito.tumblr.com/post/110063660087/cisco-aci-and-linux-containers. In the meantime, the networking concept in Docker has considerably evolved, including in the latest releases the concept of network driver plugins (https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/plugins_network/). Contiv (https://contiv.io) is one of those plugins, that enhances the … Continue reading Demo with Docker containers and Cisco ACI integration: Contiv
Lately there seems to be a lot of buzz in the press about combining Cisco ACI and VMware NSX to achieve a comprehensive SDN solution. Nothing bad with that, other than it creates some times the perception that NSX and ACI need themselves mutually. And hence this post, since I disagree with this perspective. First … Continue reading Are ACI and NSX complementary solutions?
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
