Cisco enhances its SDN Portfolio with new ACI Capabilities

Cisco has announced a new software release for its Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) to enhance its comprehensive SDN portfolio built on open APIs, open standards and a broad ecosystem for customer choice and flexibility. New software capabilities enhance ACI with micro segmentation for both physical (bare metal) applications and multivendor virtualized applications (VMware VDS, Microsoft Hyper-V) and extend ACI across multi-site environments to deliver policy-driven automation across multiple data centers.

“Customers tell me that only five to ten per cent of their networks are automated today. They are eager to adopt comprehensive automation for their networks and network services through a single pane of management, while improving security for east-west traffic, multi-cloud traffic and bare metal applications in a consistent manner. Policy-based automation, consistent network security and central compliance support are critical for IT efficiency, business agility, and competitive advantage. Several ACI customers have achieved full automation of the network and are focussing on automation across their Layer 4-7 network services, security and application groups as the next step,” said Soni Jiandani, SVP, Cisco...Read more