Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
ACI Anywhere
Cisco ACI, the industry leading software defined networking (SDN) solution enables application agility and data center automation. Customers can build multi-cloud networks with a consistent policy model. With ACI Anywhere, customers have the flexibility to move applications seamlessly without compromising high availability and creating a single fault domain environment.
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What Cisco ACI offers
Automation and agility
Automate IT workflows and help organizations shorten app deployment from weeks to minutes.
Open and programmable
Build programmable SDN fabrics leveraging open APIs and over 65 Cisco ACI global partner ecosystems.
Security and analytics
Secure applications through whitelist model, policy enforcement, and micro-segmentation.
Workload mobility at scale
Deploy and migrate applications seamlessly across geographies with consistent policy.
Cisco ACI automation lifecycle
Establish network automation
du deployed a 150-node SDN fabric in less than one hour and gained zero-touch provisioning with consistent policies.
Deliver services automation
Manx Telecom delivered services faster and more reliably through a unified interface for all application workflows.
Achieve application automation
Audatex simplified and accelerated its app-deployment process by providing automated workloads on-demand.
Cisco ACI building blocks
High-performance, low-latency, and power-efficient switches operate in Cisco NX-OS software mode or in Cisco ACI mode.
Provides single-click access to all Cisco ACI fabric information, enabling network automation, programmability, and centralized management.
Cisco ACI Virtual Edge (AVE)
Cisco ACI Virtual Edge is designed to support Cisco ACI architecture. It provides support for ACI application policy model as well as switching capabilities with high performance and throughput.
Cisco IT accelerates business agility with ACI
Cisco IT deployed ACI to automate their data centers and speed up deployment of business-critical applications.
- 58% reduction in network provisioning time
- 21% improvement in network management costs
- 25% reduction in CAPEX
- 45% reduction in power and cooling cost
ACI Ecosystem Partners
Deploy ACI with confidence using our validated partner solutions to reduce risk and increase agility.
Deploying ACI networks
Building your DC fabric
Integrate virtual and physical workloads in a programmable, multihypervisor fabric to build a multiservice cloud data center.
Simplify migration
Smoothly transition from a traditional data center to SDN with a common, policy-enforced approach.
Protect your investment
Migrate to Cisco ACI and build on your existing Cisco NX-OS infrastructure.
The Cisco IT way
Learn how Cisco IT transitioned to Cisco ACI for data center automation and improved business performance.
Automation should be simple
Reduce management time by 87% with Cisco ACI and Citrix NetScaler.
Cisco launches Network Assurance Engine
Roland Acra, SVP of Data Center Business Unit, discusses Cisco’s strategy for intent-based networking and how network assurance fits in.
Services
Rely on Cisco to increase efficiency, enhance agility, and mitigate risk. Cisco offers a comprehensive portfolio of consulting, implementation, optimization, and technical services.
Featured content
Cisco App Center
Collaborate with developers, then publish and monetize innovative apps using Cisco APIC.
Learn from Cisco experts
Get the latest updates about Cisco ACI and software-defined networking.
ACI Multi-Site
Application mobility with common policy, high availability and isolated failure domain.
Featured products
Cisco Tetration
Simplify your zero-trust implementations, and get realtime visibility into your data center.
Cisco CloudCenter
Deploy and manage applications more securely across your data center and cloud environments.
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Supports Cisco NX-OS, data center interconnect, and open-source programmable tools.
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