Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
ACI Anywhere
Cisco ACI, the industry-leading software-defined networking solution, facilitates application agility and data center automation. With ACI Anywhere, enable scalable multicloud networks with a consistent policy model, and gain the flexibility to move applications seamlessly to any location or any cloud while maintaining security and high availability.
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What Cisco ACI offers
Optimize your network
Automation through common policy for DC operations
Protect your business
Business continuity and disaster recovery with pervasive security
Accelerate multicloud
Seamless connectivity to any workload, anywhere, from on-premises to cloud
Featured solution
Cisco ACI Multicloud
Seamlessly extend policies and operational efficiencies to any application, any location.
Cisco ACI solution components
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
APIC provides single-click access to all Cisco ACI fabric information, helping to enable network automation, programmability, and centralized management.
Cisco Cloud ACI
Translate ACI policies to AWS and Azure cloud native constructs to create a single, consistent policy across multiple on premises and public cloud instances.
Cisco Virtual ACI
Extend on premises ACI networks into remote locations, bare-metal clouds, co-location providers and brownfield environments without the need for any hardware.
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
High-performance, low-latency, and power-efficient switches operate in Cisco NX-OS software mode or in Cisco ACI mode.
Cisco ACI Multisite Orchestrator
Build globally scalable and highly available data center networks with seamless application mobility.
Cisco ACI App Center
Find apps you love, collaborate with developers, publish and monetize your own apps using Cisco APIC.
Featured Cisco ACI integrations
AppDynamics Integration
Correlate app health and network for optimal performance, deep monitoring, and fast root-cause analysis.
DNA Center/ISE Integration
Map user identities consistently to endpoints and apps across entire network, from campus to data center.
TechField Day Live Stream
Join experts discussing latest ACI Anywhere innovations broadcasting live from Cisco Live.
Partner ecosystem solutions
Deploy ACI with confidence using our validated partner solutions to reduce risk and increase agility.
Enhance scale and SLA, and reduce load balancing costs by 50 percent.
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.
Securely automate cloud apps
Automate deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, and better operate DevOps environments.
Use Cisco services to accelerate ACI adoption
We help determine IT readiness, simplify operations, and reduce risk through expert guidance and centralized support. We also support ACI on AWS through our lifecycle services, extending your on-premises data center to multicloud.
Featured content solutions
Cisco ACI Competitive Analyst Report
Read why Cisco ACI is the industry leading SDN solution.
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Cisco Network Assurance Engine
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Cisco CloudCenter
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