Cisco’s SDN Solution Strengthens AWS Ties

Cisco recently released an update to its Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), software-defined networking (SDN), offering. This integration includes more integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Cisco boasts the breadth and versatility of ACI, describing the industry’s only SDN solution that automates network security and workloads across heterogeneous domains like physical (bare-metal), virtual machines, containers,…

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Cisco’s ACI Intent Based Networking Solution Coming To AWS Cloud Networking giant Cisco Systems will bring its Application Centric Infrastructure solution (ACI), to public cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), in a major extension program called ACI Anywhere. After the software-defined networking movement (SDN), which threatened Cisco’s hardware-based and proprietary dominance of the networking industry, ACI was introduced by the company. It renamed it “intent-based network” after that. ACI Anywhere allows ACI to be used on AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud platforms. The company stated that it delivers operational simplicity, application agility, and protection in the data centre — all delivered in an open approach that integrates seamlessly with all hypervisors or container frameworks on which applications can be deployed. ACI Anywhere extends ACI to any workload in any location and any cloud with ACI Anywhere. Virtual ACI supports remote edge locations and bare metal clouds. Cisco now has Cloud ACI capabilities that allow for automation, management and security to AWS, Microsoft Azure, and their Infrastructure as a Service environments. Cisco posted additional information about ACI Anywhere yesterday (Jan. 29) in a blog post. This included details about the service’s technical magic, customer benefits, and more. [Click on the image to see a larger version.] Cisco Live! Barcelona conference. These announcements included:

HyperFlex can now be extended to branch offices and remote locations in order to power applications at edge. Cisco HyperFlex solutions allow enterprises to deploy applications from the core to the edge and multicloud. CloudCenter enhancements to assist customers in managing the lifecycle of their applications across multiple cloud environments. Cisco CloudCenter Suite simplifies multicloud…

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Cisco’s “ACI Anywhere” Software-Defined Networking Reaches AWS Cloud Networking kingpin Cisco Systems has announced a new solution that extends Cisco’s software-defined networking technology (SDN) from on-premises datacenters into the Amazon Web Services (AWS). The solution, called Cisco Cloud ACI For AWS, is part of the ACI Anywhere initiative Cisco Systems announced in January. It aims to expand the reach of its SDN based Application Centric Infrastructure to public clouds such as AWS or Microsoft Azure. Cisco stated that its ACI Anywhere network initiative offered flexible deployment options and the ability to deploy apps based upon business requirements rather than technology limitations. In announcing this week, Cisco said that the new offering expands on that functionality. It “automates end-to-end connectivity management and enforces consistent network security policies for applications running on-prem data centres and AWS public clouds regions.” According to the AWS Marketplace entry, Cisco Cloud ACI is built on the Cisco Cloud Application Policy Infrastructure Controller. This controller runs natively in AWS public clouds to provide automated connectivity and policy translation. It also provides better visibility into workloads in the cloud. [Click on the image to see a larger view.] Cisco Cloud ACI on AWS (source Cisco Systems) The Cisco Cloud Services Router(CSR 1000V) is the cloud router that connects on-premises and AWS Cloud environments. Cisco Cloud Application Policy Controller provides automation functionality throughout the lifecycle of the Cisco 1000V router, overlay, and underlay connectivity. This, Cisco claims, facilitates management and operations. Cisco cites the following benefits:

Hybrid connectivity that is automated and secure through unified management A common policy abstraction allows for consistent security, governance, compliance, and management. Allow elastic resource sharing between public cloud and on-premises data centers. Facilitate workload migration in hybrid environments Ensure business continuity and disaster recovery. “ESG Research validates companies are increasingly adopting hybrid cloud approaches…

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Cisco claims new storage server beats AWS in cost

Cisco Systems Inc. claims that its UCS S-Series Storage Servers cost 56 percent less over a 3-year period than Amazon S3 storage service from Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS). Bill Shields, Cisco’s chief technology officer, made this claim in a blog post that examined AWS costs in comparison to on-premises implementations. Shields explained last week…

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Amazon QuickSight Enterprises Ready for Prime Time

Amazon Web Services now offers an enterprise-grade version its cloud-based data analysis and visualization service. Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition was launched by the company late last week, approximately one month after the release of the lighter-weight Standard Edition. QuickSight was first announced at the 2015 re-Invent conference. It allows users to organize, visualize, interact and…

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Amazon QuickSight BI Service gets Anomaly Detection. After previously infusing its Amazon QuickSight business Intelligence (BI) service (with machine learning functionality), Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has boosted it again with new features, including anomaly detection. Amazon QuickSight, a fully managed BI cloud service, is known for its pay-per-session pricing model. This is reportedly the first of its kind in the industry. AWS introduced several enhancements to the service last week, including anomaly detection. AWS stated that QuickSight Anomaly detection allows you to uncover hidden insights within your data by continuously analysing billions of data points. With the current launch, subscribers can subscribe to receive email alerts when an anomaly occurs in business metrics. These alerts will also highlight the factors that lead to these anomalies. This allows you to immediately address the business metrics that require attention. These alerts can be configured based on the significance of the anomaly or its directionality. Other improvements include:

Support for Favorites allows users to bookmark dashboards and analyzes. Filtering past N data points within a set can be used, for example, to view sales metrics from a previous week, while excluding incomplete data from the current week. Word Cloud is a new chart type that visually represents insights from categorical fields as well…

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