Cisco's efforts to converge data center infrastructure worked out well and now it's trying to do something similar with applications as it delivers its answer to software defined networking.

Cisco this week extended its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) programmable networking product line with new switches, integration with UCS Director, and migration tools for existing Nexus ...

But now, Cisco is making certain features of ACI available to customers who are running prior-generation Nexus switches, including the Nexus 7000, 6000, 5000, 4000 and 2000 Series.

ACI communicates with network devices using OpFlex, Cisco’s operations control protocol, not OpenFlow, which is the OpenDaylight standard.

Cisco customers running Nexus environments can begin to deploy the ACI technology in their existing data centers.

The Cisco ACI platform for SDN gets its first taste of integrated security, adding firewall and IPS features acquired with Sourcefire.

As Cisco prepares for its Cisco Live conference, being held next week in San Francisco, it's also preparing for general availability of its Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), supposedly by ...