Cisco extends SDN for VMware integration, Docker containers
Cisco Systems this week rolled out new software releases for its Nexus 9000 switches and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) SDN that feature enhanced integration with VMware environments and support for Docker containers.
The software is intended to further extend the capabilities of ACI into multivendor environments where a variety of hypervisors, cloud management platforms and workloads – physical, virtual or container-based – exist. Cisco now has 5,000 customers for its Nexus 9000 switch and 1,100 for ACI and its APIC controller; SDN rival VMware says it now has 900 paying customers for its NSX network virtualization platform.
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