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Cisco is continuing in its efforts to escape the world of the network appliance with a trio of tools aimed at managing virtualized systems and cloud services. The networking giant said that it would be bolstering its application policy infrastructure controller (APIC) platform with a new set of automation tools dubbed APIC-EM …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Oh, look!

    More redundant, repetitive AdSpeak acronyms! Would you like your APICs as hardware or a service? How about DNA as a biological construct or as a software platform?

    Phony double-talking idiots.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Oh, look!

      Let the marketers have their day. Cisco is separating software / management from the underlying hardware. That's a big thing, no?

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      1. J__M__M
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        Re: Oh, look!

        Cisco has been claiming they are a software and not a hardware company since the stone age (if I remember correctly). Wrong then, wrong now.

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