Chapter 8
Describing Cisco ACI
Organizations today are challenged to keep pace with everchanging customer demands and ever-present competitive threats. To succeed, organizations need to be much more agile and focused on delivering a superior customer experience. This requires fine-tuning and in many cases upgrading processes, culture, and technology; this is commonly referred to as a digital transformation. Applications are at the center of the drive to modernize traditional businesses and the foundation of their digital transformation. It is critical to ensure that all applications are deployed rapidly, perform optimally, remain highly available, and are secure. Technologies using software-defined capabilities are key enablers of digital transformation. ...