Imagination to Innovation Think about Uber and AirBnB – classic and often-cited case studies of businesses who completely redefined their entire industries by creating an experience that was simpler, faster, more intelligent and far more cost-effective than anything that had existed before. This platform experience is the basis for the explosive growth we’ve seen in public cloud over the last decade and a half – and it’s an experience that’s been relatively elusive to the on-prem world until recently.  The main reason for this is that building the same platform experience on-prem that exists…

What is Cisco ACI? Since its development in 2012, Cisco ACI has been the industry’s most secure, open, and comprehensive software-defined networking (SDN) solution. ACI enables automation that accelerates infrastructure deployment and governance, simplifies management to easily move workloads across a multifabric, hybrid cloud or multicloud framework, and proactively secures against risk arising from anywhere.  It radically simplifies, optimizes, and expedites the application deployment lifecycle. Cisco ACI enables customers to build a truly agile and…

Late last year, Kaustubh Das unveiled our ambitious vision for the Intersight Hybrid Cloud Operations Platform. Today, we are excited to share details of the latest updates and new services in the industry’s smartest and simplest cloud operations platform. diving deeper into hybrid cloud operations with Intersight Today, applications are at the very core of the digital experience for most enterprises. Companies in every industry use software and applications to engage with their customers. And…

The internet is rapidly becoming a universal and economical choice to connect the widely distributed workforce, workplaces, and cloud applications that comprise the essence of the new normal enterprise. In response, ITOps is fast at work rearchitecting the enterprise WAN to adapt to increasing reliance on cloud and SaaS applications via internet connections from branches and home offices. However, ITOps teams are being challenged to deliver consistent and reliable connectivity and application performance over networks…

As the world returns to work, new technologies, focal points, practices, and responsibilities are raising the bar for networking excellence. Operators continue to meet rising application demands in an accelerating and evolving digital business environment. Advanced network analytics and automation solutions are essential to manage these ever-growing requirements with the same resources. The result is increased visibility, faster troubleshooting and remediation and greater control over the network infrastructure, networked resources, connected end users and endpoints….