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First Quarter 2014

THE DATA CENTER: CISCO VIEW

Cisco pioneers real-time application delivery in global data centers and clouds

isco brings the transformation of infor- nology components that impact application The new Nexus 9000 is also the foun- Centralizes Policy Management
mation technology (IT) by delivering performance. As a result, the IT compo- dation building block for the Cisco ACI Simplifying Operations and Empowering
Application Centric Infrastructure nents are difficult to configure, complex to solution, enabling a smooth transition from IT Teams through system wide policy
(ACI), new professional services, and an troubleshoot, and cumbersome to change. optimized NX-OS to the ACI-mode of control unlocking the power of collabora-
open ecosystem of partners to help custom- That has to change. Complexity must give NX-OS with a software upgrade and the tion across application, network, security,
ers unleash their applications and enable way to speed and agility.
addition of APIC. Using merchant silicon virtualization, compute and storage teams.
greater business agility. With ACI, Cisco is CIOs want to break down these silos and custom ASICs, this portfolio delivers Investment Protection through Open
delivering to customers the first data center and unify all the component parts of IT– best of breed price performance and non- Protocols, APIs and Standards leveraging
and cloud solution to offer full visibility and networking, storage, compute, network ser- blocking port density for 1/10G to 10/40G customers’ existing: networking, services
integrated management of both physical vices, applications, security– and manage and in the future 100G transitions in exist- including security, physical and virtual
and virtual networked IT resources, all built them as a single, dynamic entity without ing and next generation data centers. The compute, and storage assets.
around the needs of applications.
compromise: that’s what ACI intends to Nexus 9000 portfolio includes state of the The Nexus 9000 portfolio delivers sev-
During the unveiling of ACI, and in accomplish. ACI couples innovations in art system innovations including the indus- eral industry firsts including innovations in
a blog post, Cisco Chairman and CEO software, hardware, systems and ASICS try’s first backplane-free modular switch software, hardware, systems, and ASICs
John Chambers discussed the imperative with a dynamic, application-aware net- to provide investment protection, efficient unifying physical and virtual infrastruc-
for IT to adapt quickly to the needs of the work policy model built around open APIs power and cooling, and a simpler design tures delivering uncompromised:
application economy. Applications have to reduce application deployment from leading to two times the improvement in Flexibility and Simplicity: Decoupling
become the lifeblood of business. The months to minutes.
mean time between failures.
application centric policy from IP infra-
consistent and high performance of applica- tions is vital to CIOs’ ability to deliver new ACI achieves this by unifying physical and virtual networks and offering security, Based on industry standards, Cisco ACI enables IT to meet business demands structure enables full host mobility, offers centralized policy control, and greatly sim-
products and services, manage compliance compliance and real-time visibility at the for new applications, rapid scale to exist- plifies network operation. The network
and governance, mitigate risk and security system, tenant, and application levels at ing ones, and the ability to redeploy IT adapts to application requirements through
threats, empower employees, and drive pro- unprecedented scale. Cisco ACI data center resources when applications that are no lon- dynamic insertion and chaining of physical
ductivity into their organizations. As bil- switching innovations allow the network to ger required. ACI accelerates application and virtual L4-7 network services including
lions of new valuable connections form to rapidly respond to application development deployment cycles to drive faster business firewalls, application delivery controllers,
create an Internet of Everything that most teams, while delivering up to 75 percent processes and improve bottom line results.
and intrusion detection systems.
of us will experience through applications, total cost of ownership savings compared to Delivers up to 75 percent total cost of Performance and Scale: Delivering secu-
the focus on rapid and consistent applica- merchant silicon-based switches and soft- ownership savings versus software only- rity and application policy at line rate 10/40
tion deployment becomes even greater. The ware-only network virtualization solutions.
network virtualization, leveraging existing and in the future 100G. 60 Tbps of switch-
role of the network, as the unifying technol- ACI is comprised of the Application Policy cabling investments, and delivering the most ing capacity, 3X faster multicast perfor-
ogy connecting users, applications and data Infrastructure Controller (APIC), the Nexus efficient modular data center switch via an mance and 1/3 the latency at 3X the traffic
centers, becomes critical.
9000 portfolio, and enhanced versions of the innovative backplane free design reducing load of any other Data Center modular
Today, the complexity and inflexibility NX-OS operating system. The Nexus 9000 power and cooling costs by 15 percent.
switch tested, 20% greater non-blocking port
of IT is slowing business down. IT profes- family, running optimized NX-OS, enables Accelerates Application Deployment density – 576 40G line rate ports with 50%+
sionals work in separate inefficient siloes unmatched “zero-touch” operations across Time to Minutes improving business agility reduction in ASICs per module compared to
because current technology doesn’t support high performance data center networks, and through centralized management, applica- merchant silicon only competitors
a shared architectural model, and there is can save customers millions of dollars in tion network profiles, L4-7 network service See THE DATA CENTER, page 4
no way to gain a single view of all the tech-
capital and operating expenses.
automation, and open APIs.

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