ACI Segmentation and Migrations made easier with Endpoint Security Groups (ESG)

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Let’s open with a question: “How are you handling security and segmentation requirements in your Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric?”I expect most answers will relate to constructs of Endpoint Groups (EPGs), contracts and filters.  These concepts are the foundations of ACI. But when it comes to any...

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Enabling Scalable Group Policy with TrustSec Across Networks to Provide More Reliability and Determinism

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Cisco TrustSec provides software-defined access control and network segmentation to help organizations enforce business-driven intent and streamline policy management across network domains. It forms the foundation of Cisco Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) by providing a policy enforcement plane based on Security Group Tag (SGT) assignments and dynamic provisioning of...

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Application-centric Security Management for Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO)

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Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO) users can achieve policy-driven Application-centric Security Management (ASM) with AlgoSecAlgoSec ASM A32 is AlgoSec’s latest release to feature a major technology integration, built upon a well-established collaboration with Cisco — bringing this partnership to the front of the Cisco innovation cycle with support for...

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Using Infrastructure as Code to deploy F5 Application Delivery and Cisco ACI Service Chaining

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Every data center is built to host applications and provide the required infrastructure for the applications to run, communicate with each other, be accessed by their users from anywhere, and scale on demand.To achieve this, your data center network must be able to provide different types of connectivity...

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Introducing Success Track for Data Center Network

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The pace of digital transformation has accelerated. In the past year and a half, business models have changed, and there is a need for enterprises to quickly improve the time taken to launch new products or services. The economic uncertainty has forced enterprises to reduce their overall spending...

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How To Simplify Cisco ACI Management with Smartsheet

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Have you ever gotten lost in the APIC GUI while trying to configure a feature? Or maybe you are tired of going over the same steps again and again when changing an ACI filter or a contract? Or maybe you have always asked yourself how you can integrate...

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Power of Cloud Application Centric Infrastructure (Cloud ACI) in Service Chaining

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It is a reality that most enterprise customers are moving from a private data center model to a hybrid multi-cloud model. They are either moving some of their existing applications or developing newer applications in a cloud native way to deploy in the public clouds. Customers are wary...

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Designing Fault Tolerant Data Centers of the Future

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System crashes. Outages. Downtime.These words send chills down the spines of network administrators. When business apps go down, business leaders are not happy. And the cost can be significant.Recent IDC survey data shows that enterprises experience two cloud service outages per year. IDC research conservatively puts the average...

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Enable Consistent Application Services for Containers

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Kubernetes is all about abstracting away complexity. As Kubernetes continues to evolve, it becomes more intelligent and will become even more powerful when it comes to helping enterprises manage their data center, not just at the cloud. While enterprises have had to deal with the challenges associated with...

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