John Chambers, CEO -- business revolution: Cisco's Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) ecosystem partners on how to solve big challenges for customers: Rich Murray 2013.11.14 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2013/11/john-chambers-ceo-business-revolution.html
Hi Daren Yeo and friends, I happened to stumble into learning about this early this afternoon, "by chance" -- organizations are evolving the ability to invent and improve operations anywhere on Earth, with collaborators anywhere, within a day, with huge savings of efficiency, flexibility, agility, adaptability, cost control, availability, travel costs, environmental overhead... http://newsroom.cisco.com/release/1281658 PRESS RELEASE Technology Leaders Rally Behind Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure Open architecture and diverse partner ecosystem strengthen transformational approach to data center infrastructure and application agility Hear from Cisco's Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) ecosystem partners on how they're working with Cisco to solve big challenges for our customers. The Ecosystem Effect: Cisco ACI Partner Ecosystem Documents Cisco ACI partner ecosystem quote sheet NEW YORK, NY, Nov. 6, 2013 – Today, Cisco unveiled a bold new vision and portfolio for the data center that includes an open ecosystem of partners that can help business applications perform with faster on-demand agility for customers. Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) delivers the first data center and cloud solution to offer full visibility and integrated management of both physical and virtual networked IT resources. Leading companies supporting Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure include: BMC, CA Technologies, Citrix, EMC, Embrane, Emulex, F5, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Panduit, Puppet Labs, NIKSUN, OpsCode, Red Hat, SAP, Splunk, Symantec, VCE and VMware. Cisco ACI combines innovation in software, hardware, systems and ASICs with a first-of-its-kind, extensible application-aware network policy model built around open APIs. The open set of APIs enables a comprehensive ecosystem of management, orchestration, monitoring, virtualization, network service, and storage partners. These partners can use ACI's open and extensible application policy model for automating the visibility, hardware acceleration, and other functions and services needed to make data center infrastructure support applications faster. This unique new model is designed to accelerate application deployment from months to minutes. It allows the network to rapidly respond to the needs of applications while delivering up to 75 percent TCO savings compared to merchant silicon-based competitor switches and software-only network virtualization solutions. Together, Cisco is collaborating with this ecosystem of industry leaders to help stimulate technology innovation, enhance the value of businesses' existing IT assets, and accelerate market adoption of ACI by delivering greater business agility for customers. http://blogs.cisco.com/news/transforming-i-t-for-the-application-economy/ Cisco Blog > The Platform Transforming I.T. for the Application Economy John Chambers John Chambers | November 6, 2013 at 7:30 am PST (7 Comments) Applications have become the lifeblood of our economy. They are how business is done; how partners and suppliers interact; how employees connect; how consumers share, learn and buy. Every business is becoming an applications business. Every industry is becoming an application-centric industry, and the business model shift is only accelerating. We all truly live in an application economy now. And think about this: by 2020 there will be fifty billion things connected to the Internet. New and valuable connections will be formed between those things and people, processes and data, creating the next wave of the Internet -- the Internet of Everything. Most of us will experience the value of the Internet of Everything through applications. This shift to an application economy is perhaps the biggest IT market transition of all. Business leaders are struggling with the pace of change. And Chief Information Officers (CIOs) feel the pressure more than most. The complexity of information technology (IT) is slowing down their ability to enter new markets, to deliver new products and services, to manage risk and security threats, and to drive more efficiency into their organizations. Most new application deployments take a month or more to roll out. Upgrades and migrations often take just as long. When you consider that the majority of businesses run hundreds of applications, you’ll see why IT is slowing businesses down and creating unnecessary risk. Businesses need a new model for IT. A model by which IT moves faster. A model that makes IT more secure. Today, Cisco unveiled a transformational approach to data center infrastructure and operations that will bring the simplicity, security and agility that CIOs desperately need for their applications. Our new approach – Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure – is going to reduce the time it takes to provision, change or remove applications from months to minutes. I believe Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) architecture, with its Application Policy Infrastructure Controller and the new Nexus 9000 data center switching portfolio, represents the most disruptive architectural innovations in IT that I’ve seen in more than a decade. And these technologies are going to future-proof our customers’ data centers for the next decade. Our customers love the fact that ACI is a silo buster. ACI gives every administrator, whether they are focused on networking, security, storage, platforms or network services, the same view and the same single point of management for the whole IT infrastructure. Crucially, this single point of management extends to both physical and virtual networks. And ACI brings all of these resources together to behave as a single, dynamic, responsive entity that helps administrators streamline configuration, accelerate troubleshooting and optimize application performance. How did we achieve this? With incredible innovations in ASICs, leading software, cutting-edge hardware, and system design to create a new model for IT where applications come together with the network, with security, and at scale. I love being first, and our ACI architecture is packed with industry firsts. I encourage you to read through our Application Centric Infrastructure press release to learn more about those firsts, from the unification of physical and virtual networking infrastructure, to the fine-grained security control that ACI delivers at scale, and the industry- leading 60 terabits per second of switching capacity. Of equal importance to all of those groundbreaking innovations is ACI’s openness. This architecture offers open application program interfaces (APIs) that have enabled us to ensure that ACI has the backing of the industry’s most complete ecosystem of partners for management, orchestration, monitoring, virtualization, network services, and storage. With this level of support from so many industry leaders, you can see why I believe ACI will be one of the most disruptive innovations we will see in IT. I couldn’t be more proud of the incredible team that has brought this technology to market. They epitomize the Cisco spirit which causes us to continue to surprise our critics, to out-execute our competitors, and -- in the case of our data center business overall – to build a $5 B business in just five years. Market transitions have often presented Cisco with an opportunity to expand our relevance to customers and emerge stronger than before. I’m sure ACI will prove to be yet another example of our outstanding track record in anticipating and capturing transitions. ACI is also an example of our willingness to employ disruptive innovation strategies. To the best of my knowledge, there is no other technology company that has been able to move as quickly, or achieve as much success as Cisco, by combining investments in early stage companies such as Insieme with the capability and scale of our home-grown engineering, services, sales and marketing organizations. It is an approach that has served us extremely well in creating successive multi-billion dollar businesses. And make no mistake, I also expect ACI to become a multi-billion dollar business for Cisco. You ain’t seen nothing yet! Tags: ACI, application centric infrastructure, Application Economy, Cisco, data center, Insieme, john chambers http://kemptechnologies.com/blog/application-centric-performance-delivery-key-to-persistent-visibility-availability/ Application-Centric Performance Delivery Key to Persistent Visibility, Availability KEMP Technologies | 06 November 2013 6:11 pm As you know we pride ourselves on having some of the smartest people in the industry at KEMP. Here KEMP Technologies, CMO, Atchison Frazer gives his views on application performance in an increasing virtualised IT environment. As website-based e-commerce shifts to an API-dependent digital economy, in which every business becomes a technology company with specialized industry expertise, new application demand will drive the need for virtualized application-centric performance delivery controllers (ADCs) that dynamically determine minimum latency and service level standards. Business-critical applications like ERP, CRM and security are changing in significant ways. Applications designed for the mobile-cloud era are driving a proliferation of APIs across technology domains and cloud-hybrid platforms. These trends include the Internet-of-Things ubiquitous connectivity, server and application virtualization, cloud-enabled SaaS, client mobile-BYOD and the emerging trend of line-of-business app deployments, all placing unpredictable bursts of bandwidth consumption on network infrastructure. The conventional approach to addressing this problem has been for a business user to make a requisition request to IT for high availability, network-centric hardware (two paired devices, one for failover, and another two devices for maintenance sparing) that typically must be shared by other business app users, in order to justify the acquisition, deployment, maintenance and operational costs. However, line-of-business users place more value upon application-centric performance solutions that increase availability, dramatically reduce time to services provisioning and time to revenue for their business-critical applications (days to seconds) with real-time deployment capability, no degradation of performance, and application delivery-on-demand scaling capabilities, that lead to more predictable application spending that is perfectly aligned and elastic to business-user activity. Enter the cloud-ready, cross platform-capable virtual application performance delivery solution. A virtual application performance delivery solution creates an application-aware, on-demand delivery implementation model that features deep visibility into application behavioral performance factors, on an application-by-application basis, and ensures persistent availability. Given that a virtual application control point offers greater visibility into performance attributes of specific applications, security and risk management officers, for example, are now able to maintain proper governance over policies for compliance purposes, while allowing for a self-service IT model providing on-demand application provisioning and scalability based on business-user defined values. The virtual application performance delivery solution also eliminates the need to requisition legacy, external load-balancer devices allowing for an elegant and fast deployment scenario that automates implementation of business services, greatly simplifying application deployments. With data visibility of actual application performance factors, network-related application suitability can be more readily defined instantly across data center networks, and thus the virtual application performance delivery solution acts as a bridge between optimal application provisioning and resource allocation of virtual network functionality, especially as networks transition from client/server to cloud hybrid infrastructures. Aatchison-frazerAtchison Frazer, CMO, KEMP Technologies Atchison brings to KEMP, over 20 years experience in technology marketing for both global IT leaders like Cisco and HP, as well as disruptive market-maker start-ups like Gnodal (now part of Cray) and Fortinet. At Cisco, Atchison was responsible for marketing and communications, services strategy and sales enablement to support Cisco’s global enterprise theatre and enterprise transformation market segments. Atchison also served as the enterprise marketing lead for network optimization, security services, professional advisory services, solutions architecture, emerging technologies, and acquisition integration. http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/high_tech_telecoms_internet/mckinsey_conversations_with_global_leaders_john_chambers_of_cisco John Chambers talks in May, 2009 within the fellowship of service, Rich Murray, MA Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology, BS MIT 1964 history and physics, 254-A Donax Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932-1918, [email protected]<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&[email protected]> , 505-819-7388 cell, 619-623-3468 home, http://rmforall.blogspot.com
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