Oct 28, 2020   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

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

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --

News Summary:

    --  New solutions enable IT to simplify their operations and gain
        consistency across on-premise, 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 (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced new software-delivered solutions designed to simplify IT operations across on-premise data centers and multicloud 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 IT teams to transform how they function. Today, Cisco is announcing IT platforms for multicloud 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 unrivaled 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 multicloud 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: 

    --  Watch the Todd Nightingale Video: 'Agility is the New IT Superpower'
    --  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.

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Certain of the features, functionality, enhancements or other product roadmap information referenced herein as being available at a future date remain in development and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis. This timing is subject to change at the sole discretion of Cisco, and Cisco will have no liability for delay in the delivery or failure to deliver any of the features, functionality, enhancements or other product offerings described herein.

Press contact: Taylor Hassman, thassman@cisco.com, 415-610-6075

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