DC Network API

With the proliferation of mobile devices, social networks, virtualization, cloud computing, video contents, and personal computers to perform daily activities, the electronic services over the intranet and internet have tremendously increased in the last decade. This phenomenon has significantly boosted demand in the DC (Data Center) for more storage, computation power, and bandwidth. As a result in the DC, the number of network devices and computers have increased, and its management and monitoring become more and more complex and costly. While changing and growing, DC must be agile and automated to add latest network technologies without disturbing existing infrastructure or increasing downtime otherwise company might lose revenue, credibility and business. Today, network API springs up in few companies to assist IT in their quest to reduce network operation complexity and expense. In this area, Cisco Systems offers a DC network API worthy to discuss.  This API is part of DCNM (Data Center Network Manager) product and allows to automate, manage and monitor the network portion of the Data Center. In DCNM, functional management areas (configuration, provisioning, inventory, monitor, fault and troubleshooting) are in a single product and works in unison, consequently its interfaces are not disparate increasing operational efficiencies. The DC network API can be an ingredient of your DC automation; it can be used as an Adapter to complement your existing management infrastructure and provides a unified and coherent views of your DC network.  It may save you time and money, and on top of that the good news it is freely available. To read more about this article see:
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