Policy-Based Automation

The perfect platform for building out your digital core

Low-touchApplication-driven infrastructure is key when data projects go from pilots to enterprise deployments delivering new business insights. Automated delivery and governance of application and infrastructure using defined policies is an important step toward digitisation. Policies can be defined once and rolled out automatically across your entire infrastructure, enabling a Software-Defined Everything (SDx) approach to deployment, delivery and continuous monitoring from top to bottom.Run simple with complex
enterprise applicationsDo you want to achieve cloud-like economy and agility, but with security assured for enterprise scale applications?How about eliminating the manual work required to set up the underlying infrastructure and enterprise application stack?

"...SDN is the key technology that enables automated provisioning, network virtualisation, and improved network programmability. "

– IDC: Making SDN Real for Enterprises

Software Defined Network (SDN) technology separates configuration from physical connections and hardware, meaning new applications can be provisioned, deployed and connected faster. Yet any form of software-defined is dependent on infrastructure intelligence and programmability.Zero-touch, policy-driven deployments

Cisco UCS delivered programmable and software-defined capabilities from the start. Our SDN platform is known as Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and we are the only vendor to offer policy-driven automation for Big Data applications and SAP HANA deployments.ACI makes IT more agile by enabling network, application, security and virtualisation teams to automate manual tasks. It has been embraced by more than 2,700 customers globally, including CenturyLink, who delivers powerful enterprise applications with cloud-like economy and agility.Explore Cisco ACI and SDN in more detail