Cisco Delivers New ACI Security Features and Expands Customer Choice With Docker Support
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Cisco also added integration of Docker containers through contributions to open source, offering customers a consistent policy model and greater deployment flexibility using the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC).
Expanding customer choice through a broad ecosystem, open APIs and contributions to open source, ACI now supports automated service insertion for any third party layer 4-7 service. Cisco also added new support for cloud automation tools like VMware vRealize Automation and OpenStack, including open standards-based Opflex support with Open vSwitch (OVS). New members of the ACI ecosystem enable the automation of entire application suites, including Platform as a Service (PAAS) and Software as a Service (SAAS), helping organizations to automate across their application and infrastructure teams.
Cisco now has over 5000 Nexus 9000 ACI-ready customers using its open platform that supports any hypervisor, any cloud management platform, and any workload -- whether physical, virtual, or container.
"Customers tell me that only five to ten percent of their networks are automated today," said Soni Jiandani, SVP at Cisco. "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 focusing on automation across their Layer 4-7 network services, security and application groups as the next step."
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"At Sungard Availability Services, we provide a highly scalable OpenStack-based cloud platform offering managed network services using Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and Group-Based Policy," said Prasad Dorbala, Vice President of Network Transformation, Sungard Availability Services. "With the new open source support for OpFlex and Open vSwitch, we can now extend these capabilities directly into the KVM hypervisor to help customers realize the promise of physical plus virtual integration. This solution allows organizations to rapidly deploy applications through policy automation, easily insert multiple network services, and efficiently operate and manage their OpenStack cloud with APIC's telemetry, analytics, and troubleshooting capabilities."
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