Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced new ways to help customers accelerate digital transformation as they move more resources to the cloud. The hyper-connected and distributed world we live in today is more dependent on the cloud than ever before, and IT teams are facing challenges in delivering good digital experiences to people wherever and whenever they need access. As a result, companies are moving to a speed-based, cloud-enabled operating model, insight and control in order to articulate the widest distribution of applications, users and technology professionals.
The company reported that it has made significant investments over the past six years to build the cloud into all aspects of its business, with a focus on helping customers develop end-to-end cloud strategies reliably in five key areas: Continuity, Insights, Security, Connectivity and Operations.
User experience is the key to success in the digital world,” said Todd Nightingale, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco Enterprise Networking and Cloud. “We are focused on empowering technology groups to securely deliver the best possible application experiences. Only Cisco can drive the hybrid cloud solutions, observability, insights and automation needed to be truly intelligent in the cloud.”
Hybrid cloud innovations announced include:
- Hybrid Cloud Operations:
- Introducing the new Cisco UCS® X-Series: Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) is used in data centers by more than 50,000 customers around the world. Fully integrated with Cisco Intersight, the UCS X-Series is a pioneering system designed for hybrid cloud and cross-cloud operations. Combining the best server systems in blade is on rack and featuring revolutionary UCS X-Fabric technology, it is built for the versatility of today's workload and is ready for the next decade of innovations in processors, accelerators and computational interconnects.
- Intersight Cloud Orchestrator: provides easy-to-use, low-code automation parameters so IT operations can easily orchestrate infrastructure and workloads and accelerate service delivery.
- Intersight Workload Engine: a powerful platform for modern cloud-native workloads. Developed from Kubernetes and Kernel based virtual machine (KVM) using native virtualization in container, Intersight Workload Engine is a Cisco operating system for Hyperflex with consistent SaaS management.
- Cisco Service Mesh Manager: a new extension of the Intersight Kubernetes Service, providing deep observability and simplified management with rules-based security and intuitive visualization of service topologies across all clusters of K8, on-premise and in the cloud.
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- Cisco Cloud ACI: Available on AWS, Azure and now Google Cloud, it will be fully available in the second half of 2021. Cloud ACI's standardized standards and operating model dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of managing hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.
Observability and Insights:
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- Integration of internet and cloud intelligenceThousandEyes with Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Series for SD-WAN and with the switches Cisco Nexus 9000 for data centers, in order to provide customers insights valuable insights into network health and application performance by monitoring campus, branch, data centers and every point on the WAN network between the user and the applications.
- Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator: serves as a unified management console for configuring and managing common policies across multiple physical ACI locations, AWS and Microsoft Azure regions and, as announced today, Google Cloud starting in the second half of the year.
- Intersight Cloud Orchestrator: provides low-code, easy-to-use parameters to create and automate complex workflows so that IT operations can easily orchestrate infrastructure and workloads and accelerate service delivery.
Customer Experience Services (CX) for the Cloud
- CX Business Critical Services for Cloud: provides consulting services and expertise to architect, implement, secure and optimize digital transformations.
- CX Intersight Workload Optimizer Services: increase the consumption of application resources in the cloud.
- CX Advanced Services for ThousandEyes and SD-WAN: provide the best application experience for cloud solutions, offering design and specialized integration to reduce design complexity and accelerate transformation.
- Custom Quick Start Solutions: provide services for end-to-end automation and infrastructure as code (infrastructure-as-a-code, IaaC).
