A recent industry article looked at Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure initiatives, described above in this week's 5 Minute Briefing, and questions whether vendors are simply piling on with the latest “software-defined” something or other as part of the latest round of marketing hype.
Indeed, many seasoned data center managers have been pursuing “software defined” infrastructures for years now – often under different names, from web services to virtualization. However, in the battle against complexity, even more complexity gets added.
Ultimately, Cisco's ACI adds another step of automation in the progression toward self-managing data centers. But it's going to take some time, along with a few more generations of buzzwords. To stay on top of all the trends, subscribe to Database Trends and Applications magazine. https://www.dbta.com/subscribe