cisco aci customer spotlights

Cisco ACI Customer Spotlights Approved for External Use December 2015

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“With Cisco ACI policies, deploying and

supporting applications becomes faster, easier,

and more consistent.” -Matt Haschak, Director of IT Security and

Infrastructure, Bowling Green State University

Enforces consistency and provides visibility

into security policies

Students, faculty, and staff benefit from new

applications and features

• Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus support

new greenfield co-location strategy

• Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

(ACI) provides software-defined

networking (SDN) architecture

• Policy-based automation follows the

application, no matter where it is stored

or accessed

Students: 19K Bowling Green, Ohio Industry: Education

Bowling Green State University


“Because we are automating the entire stack, we

are agile with deploying customer applications and

can meet their speed requirements.” - Aftab Rasool, Senior Manager, Data Center Infrastructure

and Service Design, du

• Cisco Services migrated several of du’s

existing data center facilities into two

100G ready data centers


(ACI) fabric based on Cisco Nexus

9000 Series switches provides the

performance and capacity for software-

defined networking (SDN) at the new

facilities

Staff: 2,000 Location: Dubai Industry: Telecom

du


“The Cisco Nexus 9000 and Cisco ACI allow us to

rapidly provision applications for our clients. It’s the

perfect mix of control and scalability.” --Clayton Weise, Director of Cloud Services, Key Information Systems

Standardized operations and agile

infrastructure simplify client operations and

increase efficiencies

Spine-and-leaf architecture expands easily

and prevents bottlenecks

Can modify customers’ cloud performances

by controlling networking hardware, instead

of focusing on storage and compute

resources

• Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches

provide scalable, cost-efficient port

density for 40 GE

• Cisco® Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI) simplifies application

network provisioning with policy-driven

services and automation

• Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 switches

support secure multi-tenancy at the

hardware level

• Cisco solution avoids performance

degradation common to software-

defined networking (SDN)

Size: 60 employees Location: Agoura Hills, CA Industry: IT

Key Information Systems, Inc.


“Cisco ACI has cut the time it takes NterOne to

reset device configurations and deploy network

changes by 50%.” -Anthony Hamilton, CEO, NterOne.

Reduced the time it takes to reset device

configurations and deploy network changes

by 50%

than before

Optimized data center infrastructure and

operations to offer more classes, and

higher-quality learning experiences


improves business agility through

policy-driven automation

• Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure

Controller simplifies network policy

enforcement, fabric management, and

system monitoring

Location: Reston, VA Industry: IT

NterOne

Size: 25 employees


“With Cisco ACI, we are selling more Cloud

services, adding new Cloud services, and

onboarding customers faster without increasing

staff.” -Martin Lipka, Head of Connectivity, Pulsant Limited.

Simplified customer provisioning for staff by

removing boundaries between physical and

virtual workloads

Increased agility and cost-efficiency by

quickly creating secure and open hybrid

cloud solutions

Boosted infrastructure and application

security through enhanced multi-tenancy


and Cisco Application Policy

Infrastructure Controller simplify and

automate cloud and fabric monitoring

and management

• APIC integration with F5 Networks

device package increases security

Industry: IT

Pulsant Limited

Size: 175 employees Location: United Kingdom


“Providing services to students and researchers

anytime and anywhere is a key component of our

ongoing growth.” -Trevor Moore, Chief Information Officer, Qatar University

Ability to access academic resources at any

time, regardless of location or device

Faster access to new applications for

students and faculty accelerates learning

and research initiatives

Simplified data center management with

seamless application integration, more

scalability, and tighter security

• Deliver education as a service with the

region’s first SDN data center built on

Cisco® Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI)

• Integration of Cisco ACI and F5

Networks technology to centrally

manage network and application

services via the Cisco Application

Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)

Industry: Education

Qatar University

Size: 17,000 students Location: Doha, Qatar


“Cisco ACI gives us many excellent automation tools in

one package so that we can quickly respond to customer

demands and speed our time-to-market of new services.” -Thomas Raabo, Network Operations Manager, Zitcom

Accelerated deployment from hours to

minutes by automating network operations

through robust APIs

Simplified management and gained a

centralized view of the network through a

single console

Reduced operational expenditures by

reducing time and labor spent on daily tasks

• Cisco® Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI) simplifies

application network provisioning and

management through automation

• Robust APIs automate network controls

through a flexible, common framework

• Supports rapid growth with 20 new

virtual machines deployed weekly

Size: 55 Location: Skangerborg, Denmark Industry: IT Services

Zitcom


“One of our successes is measured on how

well IT operations serves customers.

Technology plays a critical role in making us

a leader.” -Hans Keril Ante, IT Security and Compliance Department

Manager; Siam City Cement PCL

Empowered staff to deliver the best possible

customer experiences

Positioned company to scale for next 5 to

10 years

• Standardized on Cisco® technology,

replacing incumbent HP

• Deployed Cisco UCS® servers and

Cisco Nexus® switches at new data

center and disaster recovery site

• Used Cisco Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI) with Cisco

Nexus switches to increase

business agility

Siam City Cement

Size: 3500 Employees Location: Bangkok, Thailand Industry: Manufacturing


“Automation tools help us improve the quality and

speed of our services to internal and external

customers.” -Mandar Marulkar, Vice President and CIO, KPIT

Reduced application deployment time from

4 weeks to 1 hour, getting products and

services to market faster

Improved application performance by 200%;

reduced manual IT configurations and cut

capital expenses

• Boosted agility with a software-defined

networking (SDN) model built on

Cisco® data center solutions

• Used Cisco Unified Computing System

(Cisco UCS®) as digital IT platform

• Optimized development lifecycle with

Cisco Nexus® switches and Cisco

Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

technology

• Cisco Advanced Services

Size: 10,000+ employees Location: India

KPIT

Industry: Information Technology


Consistent security approach and less time waiting

for provisioning of VLANs means servers are up

and running sooner

Network engineers with Cisco UCS background

able to pick up ACI concept quickly

Time savings, improved knowledge sharing, and

greater flexibility to cover when people are away

• Standardized on Cisco® technology,

replacing incumbent HP

• Deployed Cisco UCS® servers and

Cisco Nexus® switches at new data

center and disaster recovery site

• Used Cisco Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI) with Cisco

Nexus switches to increase

business agility

AnyWeb

Size: 35 Employees Location: Switzerland Industry: Service Provider

“To survive, IT departments must be easier

to reach, faster to supply, cheaper to run –

all the benefits brought by ACI. Otherwise,

their end-users will turn away and purchase

cloud services directly.” Fabien Aeppli, CCIE

2172, Senior Networking Consultant, AnyWeb


IOS operating system moves to background as

automation takes over, making it easier to manager

security policy in a live environment

Simple to scale up and add new customers /

services

Ability to deliver 24/7 multi-tenant cloud while

retaining complete network separation between

clients

• Cisco Nexus 9000 Application-

Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

• High-performing cloud platform,

initially to support managed

UC/Video approach (IaaS, PaaS,

Mobile, Wireless, etc.) for hotels

Avit

Size: 50 Employees Location: Netherlands Industry: Service

Provider

“We’re completely sold on the Cisco ACI

strategy. The pay off is less need for

engineering effort and better performing

cloud services for our customers.” – Jasper

van’t Wout, Director Services, Avit


GUI replaces line commands. Before, creating a

new VLAN involved handling 20-30 devices. Now,

it only takes one action

Can see exactly what’s going on, for example, with

video bottlenecks. Issues are fixed correctly first

time, faster, and with less effort

Time savings, improved knowledge sharing, and

greater flexibility to cover when people are away

• Cisco Nexus 9000 and Application-


• Spans two data centers and

supports Netcloud Managed

Services

• First partner worldwide to achieve

Cisco ACI accreditation

Netcloud AG

Size: 100 Employees Location: Switzerland Industry: Systems

Integrator

“Our storage and server teams have taken

a services approach for some time. Now,

network ops are pulling in the same

direction. On top of this we expect to make

40 percent productivity saving too.” – Reto

Schilt-Lu, Chief Operating Officer, Netcloud AG


Can add services and customers, while keeping

headcount under control

ACI builds on UCS service templates experience,

enabling multiple services to be created quickly

with greater levels of automation

Greater network intelligence to spot and proactively

resolve problems before they become visible to

end-users

• Cisco Nexus 9000 and Application-


• Supports private and hybrid cloud

offerings for software developers,

companies and private sector clients

P-Pro’s

Size: 7 Employees Location: Netherlands Industry: Service

Provider

“Our customer base is up 200 percent, but

we’ve only had to hire one extra headcount.

ACI cuts out so much unnecessary work.” – Peter Elbertse, co-founder and owner, P’-PRO’s