1 As part of the parent company of a major European banking conglomerate, this organization is tasked with the development and deployment of the group’s extensive application portfolio. With an ongoing focus to improve the quality and efficiency of service delivery, a recent initiative for the applications team has been the migration away from the bank’s legacy data centers to a cloud-centric environment. The transition presented the team with the opportunity to overhaul the IT infrastructure and to simultaneously implement a dramatically enhanced security architecture. A cornerstone of the reengineered environment has been the selection of the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). Cisco ACI utilizes an architecture based on software-defined networking (SDN) principles to

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