In Keeping in mind the need of IT transformation, Cisco has unveiled Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) which is new professional services, and an open ecosystem of partners to help customers unleash their applications and enable greater business agility.
With ACI, Cisco claims its delivering to customers the first data center and cloud solution to offer full visibility and integrated management of both physical and virtual networked IT resources, all built around the needs of applications.
During the unveiling of ACI, Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers discussed the imperative for IT to adapt quickly to the needs of the application economy. Applications have become the lifeblood of business. The consistent and high performance of applications is vital to CIOs ability to deliver new products and services, manage compliance and governance, mitigate risk and security threats, empower employees, anddrive productivity into their organizations. As billions of new valuable connections form to create an Internet of Everything that most of us will experience through applications, the focus on rapid and consistent application deployment becomes even greater. The role of the network, as the unifying technology connecting users, applications and data centers, becomes critical.
Cisco ACI data center switching innovations allow the network to rapidly respond to application development teams, while delivering up to 75 per cent total cost of ownership savings compared to merchant silicon-based switches and software-only network virtualization solutions.
ACI is comprised ofthe Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), the Nexus 9000 portfolio, and enhanced versions of the NX-OS operating system. The Nexus 9000 family, running optimized NX-OS, enables unmatched zero-touch operations across high performance data center networks, and can save customers millions of dollars in capital and operating expenses.
The new Nexus 9000 is also the foundation building block for the Cisco ACI solution, enabling a smooth transition from optimized NX-OS to the ACI-mode of NX-OS with a software upgrade and the addition of APIC. Using merchant silicon and custom ASICs, this portfolio delivers best of breed price performance and non-blocking port density for 1/10G to 10/40G and in the future 100G transitions in existing and next generation data centers.
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