At Cisco Live 2015 in San Diego last week, we had a great turnout in customers and Cisco evangelists engaging in hundreds of conversations about the cloud, the future and present of networking, making new friends and having a good time.

In our Cisco Live Data Center press release and during Soni Jiandani's Innovation Talk, we introduced a new member of the ACI ecosystem, CLiQr.  I want to highlight CliQr here to illustrate the power of the open APIC for definition of application policy intent for scale, security, and enabling simple, fast, self-service deployment of an application on private or public cloud infrastructure. This new demo with CliQr's CloudCenter and ACI integration captures the cloud admin's experience to define and deploy a 3-tier application across compute, network, and storage shared resources.

Cisco ACI, when combined with CliQr's CloudCenter^TMPlatform, delivers the promise of true end-to-end application-defined management of workloads in a secure and optimized ACI-powered cloud environment. The joint solution enables numerous advantages:

• A highly automated, 1-click end-to-end provisioning of infrastructure (compute, storage and network) as per the application's requirement, following the best-practices guidelines of the infrastructure.
• Application-centric policy model that decouples policy (security, auditing, service-level agreements (SLAs), user experience, etc.) from network topology and supports application mobility
• Application deployments are secured with CliQr CloudCenter^TM'sgovernance policies and are enforced with ACI's policy-based forwarding capabilities with strong isolation and automated insertion of Firewalls and security appliances into the application traffic flow.
• End-to-end Visibility and Control: All of this delivered in a single graphical dashboard, providing true end-to-end visibility and control from the application down -all in one logical environment.

To learn more about Cisco ACI integration with CliQr CloudCenter^TMregister for the upcoming webinar June 18 here.

To Learn More:

Blog: CliQr Announces Support for Cisco ACI

White Paper: Cisco ACI and CliQr CloudCenter^TMIntegration and Solution Overview

Webcast: The Application-Defined Advantage -CliQr CloudCenter^TMwith Cisco ACI

Press Release: Cisco Extends SDN Leadership; Delivers Customer Choice for Data Center Programmability and Automation; Enhances Software and Expands Nexus Portfolio

Cisco Live Innovation Talk: INTGEN-1007 -Fast Track to Fast IT: Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure

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