SDN for your Data Centre
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) automates network and security for workloads within and across heterogeneous domains.
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Cisco App Centre
Collaborate with developers, then publish and monetise innovative apps using Cisco APIC.
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ACI Multi-Site
Application mobility with common policy, high availability and isolated failure domain.
What Cisco ACI offers
Automation and agility
Automate IT workflows and help organisations 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.
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ACI Ecosystem Partners
Deploy ACI with confidence using our validated partner solutions to reduce risk and increase agility.
Case studies
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.
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Deploying ACI networks
Building your DC fabric
Integrate virtual and physical workloads in a programmable, multihypervisor fabric to build a multiservice cloud data centre.
Simplify migration
Smoothly transition from a traditional data centre 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 centre automation and improved business performance.
Automation should be simple
Reduce management time by 87% with Cisco ACI and Citrix NetScaler.
Automation & unified policy
Make your teams faster, your business more efficient, and ensure complete visibility with Cisco ACI.
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 centralised 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.
Featured products
Cisco Tetration Analytics
Simplify your zero-trust implementations, and get realtime visibility into your data centre.
Cisco CloudCentre
Deploy and manage applications more securely across your data centre and cloud environments.
Cisco launches Network Assurance Engine
Roland Acra, SVP of Data centre 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, optimisation, and technical services.
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