Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a revolutionary re-thinking of how to provision and manage data center networks. While the early version we looked at has some rough edges, and ...

As promised, AVS supports Cisco’s new OpFlex policy protocol to communicate with an ACI controller — called APIC — and accept application service policy instructions from it.

The APIC, the heart of Cisco's ACI platform for SDN, is all software but will ship as a hardware product, at least in its initial form.

But now, Cisco is making certain features of ACI available to customers who are running prior-generation Nexus switches, including the Nexus 7000, 6000, 5000, 4000 and 2000 Series.

APIC EM, part of Cisco's SDN framework, will be available for free to customers and developers, a move intended to widen Cisco ACI's reach.

The new AlgoSec App assesses network connectivity, risk and compliance across the Cisco ACI fabric, directly from within the Cisco APIC user interface.

Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is an SDN solution at odds with the OpenFlow approach, and as such, it diverges from the original direction of the OpenDaylight SDN project, of ...

Cisco's efforts to converge data center infrastructure worked out well and now it's trying to do something similar with applications as it delivers its answer to software defined networking.

The latest release of the APIC software includes a feature that enables the ACI Fabric to link switches at sites up to 18.6 miles apart.

Findings from an August Baird Equity Research survey suggest joint Cisco and VMware partners are more likely to push Cisco's ACI over VMware's NSX solution when it comes to software-defined ...