Cisco Delivers New Platform Solutions to Drive Workload Agility Across Public and Private Clouds

News Summary:

New solutions enable IT to simplify their operations and gain consistency across on-premises, edge and public clouds through best-in-class insights and automation

New software-delivered capabilities accelerate application and digital services delivery in a hyper-distributed world by connecting teams, infrastructure and tools

Cisco Partner Summit Digital, October 28, 2020 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced new software-delivered solutions designed to simplify IT operations across on-premises data centers and multi-cloud environments. With this milestone, Cisco is enabling greater business agility for its customers and empowering developers to deliver and scale innovative application experiences faster.Today’s business environment is changing faster than ever. Applications have become more distributed, workforces are more mobile, and the demands on our systems are greater than ever. In order to face these challenges, IT teams need greater insights and automation to deliver true technology agility. Cisco is unveiling agile IT platforms to help technology groups respond to these market transitions.“Complexity can paralyze our teams. Our systems can no longer be powerful, but brittle. For IT to be as agile as their businesses require, they need solutions obsessed with simplicity,” said Todd Nightingale, SVP and GM, Cisco Enterprise Networking and Cloud. “This year, technology groups around the globe were tested by unprecedented change. This fundamental shift in how businesses, schools and governments operate requires ITteams, to transform how they function. Today, Cisco is announcing IT platforms for multi-cloud operations that provide advanced insights and automation to help organizations transform faster.”Cisco is bringing a never-before-experienced level of efficiency to cloud, application, SecOps, NetOps and DevOps teams. As a cloud-neutral vendor, only Cisco allows customers to maintain choice and control across their full IT stack with simplified and consistent operations. Cisco provides unrivalled visibility from the application to the infrastructure, allowing customers to deliver the best application experiences. New solutions include:

Cisco Intersight: Building on its foundation as a leading systems management platform, Cisco Intersight’s mission is to become the world’s simplest hybrid cloud platform that connects private data centers to private clouds. With the new Intersight Kubernetes Service, infrastructure teams can now automate the lifecycle management of Kubernetes and containerized applications across any environment. This represents a major leap forward in the container ecosystem by driving rapid and consistent application innovation. Intersight Workload Optimizer significantly simplifies application resources management. With a single tool that provides real-time, full-stack visibility and insights, customers can balance application performance and cost. Intersight integration with AppDynamics provides IT teams with visibility to improve management across infrastructure and applications and stay ahead of problems that can impact user experience.

Cisco Nexus Dashboard: The Cisco Nexus Dashboard is a single insights and automation platform to operate multi-cloud data center networks spanning on-premise, virtual edge and cloud sites. Bringing together Cisco’s orchestration, insights and assurance services together with critical 3rd party services, Nexus Dashboard is a simple to use interface to transform operations. The Nexus Dashboard drives the adoption of cloud-native application practices leading to a faster path to return on infrastructure investment.

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE): Cisco ISE now simplifies secure network access across all domains, extending the zero-trust workplace to anywhere and on anything. With the latest innovations, customers can use ISE to intelligently identify a variety of IoT endpoints to enforce consistent policies from the cloud to give teams the agility and flexibility they need to secure their organizations.

“Cisco’s new solutions are part of an overall effort to transform how customers connect people, secure their organization, and automate their processes,” said analyst Will Townsend, Networking Practice Head, Moor Insights & Strategy. “It is designed to bring together platforms and portfolios to help customers respond and adapt to business disruptions, accelerate cloud adoption and transform IT operating models.”The new Cisco Intersight innovations and the Cisco Nexus Dashboard will be available by the end of the calendar year. Cisco Intersight Kubernetes Service will be made available in the first half of 2021. Cisco ISE innovations are available now.Additional Resources:

Video: Agility is the new IT Superpower video Q&A with Todd Nightingale, SVP & GM, Cisco Enterprise Networking and Cloud

Blog post: ITOps Reimagined through Intersight, the World’s Simplest Hybrid Cloud Operations Platform by Kaustubh Das, VP & GM, Cisco Cloud and Compute

Blog post: Transforming Data Center Operations with Nexus Dashboard by Thomas Scheibe, VP of Product Management, Cisco Data Center Networking

Blog post: ISE 3.0 Makes its Move on the Cloud to Simplify the Zero-Trust Workplace by Justin Buchanan, Sr. Director of Product Management, Cisco ISE

Developers can visit Cisco DevNet’s updated Cloud Dev Center and Intersight Dev Center to get hands-on with the latest Cisco APIs.

Source: newsroom.cisco.com