
Technology Leaders Rally Behind Ciscos Application Centric Infrastructure Open architecture and diverse partner ecosystem strengthen transformational approach to data center infrastructure and application agility
Hear from Ciscos Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) ecosystem partners on how theyre working with Cisco to solve big challenges for our customers.
The Ecosystem Effect: Cisco ACI Partner Ecosystem
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Cisco ACI partner ecosystem quote sheet
NEW YORK, NY, Nov. 6, 2013 Today, Cisco unveiled a bold new vision and portfolio for the data center that includes an open ecosystem of partners that can help business applications perform with faster on-demand agility for customers. Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) delivers the first data center and cloud solution to offer full visibility and integrated management of both physical and virtual networked IT resources.
Leading companies supporting Ciscos Application Centric Infrastructure include: BMC, CA Technologies, Citrix, EMC, Embrane, Emulex, F5, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Panduit, Puppet Labs, NIKSUN, OpsCode, Red Hat, SAP, Splunk, Symantec, VCE and VMware.
Cisco ACI combines innovation in software, hardware, systems and ASICs with a first-of-its-kind, extensible application-aware network policy model built around open APIs. The open set of APIs enables a comprehensive ecosystem of management, orchestration, monitoring, virtualization, network service, and storage partners. These partners can use ACIs open and extensible application policy model for automating the visibility, hardware acceleration, and other functions and services needed to make data center infrastructure support applications faster.
This unique new model is designed to accelerate application deployment from months to minutes. It allows the network to rapidly respond to the needs of applications while delivering up to 75 percent TCO savings compared to merchant silicon-based competitor switches and software-only network virtualization solutions. Together, Cisco is collaborating with this ecosystem of industry leaders to help stimulate technology innovation, enhance the value of businesses existing IT assets, and accelerate market adoption of ACI by delivering greater business agility for customers.
Industry Perspective on Application Centric Infrastructure
Delivering the First and Best Application-Centric Infrastructure on Vblock Systems
Trey Layton, chief technology officer, VCE
Putting Protection at the Heart of Infrastructure Automation
Steve Bennett, president and chief executive officer, Symantec
Cisco is bringing the Network to the Application - what does that mean in Machine Data terms?
Hal Rottenberg, practice manager, Datacenter Infrastructure, Splunk
Delivering OpenStack Innovation Through Collaboration: Red Hat and Cisco
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
Offspring of a Common Vision: Clustered Data ONTAP and Ciscos Application Centric Infrastructure
Jay Kidd, chief technology officer, NetApp
Microsoft and Ciscos Application Centric Infrastructure, hello cloud!
Satya Nadella, executive vice president, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft
Application-Centric from Top to Bottom and End to End: F5 and Cisco
Lori MacVittie, senior product manager, Emerging Technologies, F5
Propelling Applications Forward with Network Visibility and Agility
Rick Trujilio, product marketing manager, Emulex
EMC Cisco Lock Arms to Deliver Next Generation Data Center
EMC Pulse Blog
When Applications and Networks Unite The Age of Enlightened Infrastructure
Abishek Chauhan, CTO, NetScaler Product Group, Citrix
Dawn of Application Centric Infrastructure for Cloud and Big Data
Andi Mann, vice president, Strategic Solutions, CA Technologies
Partner Executive Quotes:
Gordon Payne, senior vice president, Solutions, Citrix
"Were excited about the application-centric approach that Cisco is bringing to data center infrastructure. By tailoring for applications, future joint solutions will allow our customers to deliver cloud services more efficiently and effectively than ever. Citrix and Cisco product development teams are working closely together to deliver tight integration of Citrix NetScaler with Ciscos Application Centric Infrastructure for centralized management and improved security. With this, our mutual customers will be able to migrate smoothly with the current Citrix NetScaler integrated with Cisco Nexus into this new fabric-based approach while protecting the majority of their current investments and operational processes."
Jeremy Burton, executive vice president, Product Operations, Solutions & Marketing, EMC Corporation
"Infrastructure only exists to serve the needs of business applications. IT must transform their infrastructure so it can dynamically adapt to the changing needs of diverse application workloads. By integrating Ciscos Application Centric Infrastructure with EMCs best-of-breed storage infrastructure our mutual customers will have the ability to define application service levels, automatically provision the right infrastructure and monitor system execution in a simple, cost-effective way."
John McAdam, chief executive officer, F5 Networks
"Ciscos Application Centric Infrastructure approach provides our joint customers with greater IT agility and data center automation. The application policy model is aligned with our customers business objectives and with F5s approach towards both application-aware networking and open, programmable fabrics. By integrating F5 Synthesis into the Cisco ACI fabric, we could support accelerated application deployment and enhanced visibility with best-in-class application delivery services for both physical and virtual applications."
Deepak Advani, general manager, Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure, IBM
"With our long-term relationship with Cisco, IBM
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