After being with the Cisco Insieme BU, and focusing mostly on ACI, for the last three years I’ve made a bit of a job change. I’m still sort of in Technical Marketing because it’s been an amazing path for me, but I’m now actually a co-host on Cisco’s TechwiseTV! Robb Boyd has been running TechwiseTV…
Welcome back to another blog in the ACI 101 series. In the video below I’ll be giving an overview on the policy side of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure. Mainly we’ll be concentrating on the Application Profile. The Application Profile, in the context of ACI, refers to how we deploy applications on our network as well…
Here we are again, with another #ACIMonday! This week I’ll be giving an overview on some of the basic constructs in ACI. These aren’t necessarily new concepts if you’re familiar with networking and data centers or private/public clouds already. We’ll be talking about tenants, VRFs, and bridge domains. A tenant is basically a logical separation…
This second video of the ACI 101 series is an overview of the Cisco ACI Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC). The APIC is the controller we use to setup, configure, and manage literally everything in ACI from the underlay to the overlay, from virtual to physical, and all of your layer 2-7 needs. While the…
First of all, I’d like to tell you about this new project I’m working on at Cisco which I’m calling ACI 101. Basically I, with the help of some of my colleagues, will be releasing a video every Monday (#ACIMonday). Some videos will be overviews of a certain topic within ACI, most will be straight up demos! For the…
So, I’ve been undertaking a ketogenic diet recently. Don’t stop reading yet…I’m not going to talk about that, but I’ve recently switched from beer to vodka sodas. I just wanted to talk about the steps it takes to make a vodka soda in an imperative model. Gather a whole bunch of sand Make a really…
Today we’re seeing a shift from large data centers to multiple smaller data centers as well as the shift to using private clouds, and public clouds. In fact, at Cisco we’re seeing that over 50% of our customers are using public cloud options. Most customers aren’t all in on the public cloud concept for various reasons,…
One question I always get asked is how can people learn more about Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure. In this blog I’m going to list some of the best resources to learn about and get your hands on ACI. To begin with, let’s talk about labs. There are several labs available currently for partners on Cisco…
Everywhere you go these days you hear about containers, and Docker, and Kubernetes, and microservices, and so on and so on. In this article I’m going to attempt to do a little introduction to Docker, which is a company that introduced some containerized services as well as services that go along with containers. I plan…
Much like Cisco UCS, there was a bit of a learning curve to the GUI. However, once you became more familiar with the GUI it did become pretty intuitive and gave you every single command you needed without having to go to the command line. People expect more out of GUIs as of late, though.…