Cisco has announced its vision to enable IT teams to work smarter and simplify their operations with new innovations in cloud-managed networking and unified technology experiences.
Cisco has unveiled new cloud management and unified tech capabilities at Cisco Live across the Cisco Meraki, Cisco Catalyst and Cisco Nexus portfolios and a new Cisco ThousandEyes product to proactively forecast and optimise wide area network (WAN) performance. These innovations highlight Cisco’s strategy to provide customers with the agility, resiliency, and productivity that their businesses need to thrive in the face of unpredictability through the power of cloud-managed platforms.
Commenting on the development, Todd Nightingale, executive vice president and general manager, Cisco Enterprise Networking and Cloud, said, “Our customers choose to run their businesses on Cisco technology because we sit at the intersection of networking, security and cloud. We believe the network is the foundation for the modern enterprise and must deliver agility through simplicity. Cisco is addressing our customers’ most important concern, which is managing complexity through smart, data-driven platforms that power a digital business.”
Cisco is advancing its networking platforms so customers can securely, logically, and seamlessly transition toward more cloud-based operating models. With Cloud Management for Cisco Catalyst, customers can now monitor select catalyst switches and manage new catalyst wireless devices through the Meraki dashboard, bringing increased visibility and flexibility to the customer experience. Campus and branch networking customers can now simplify their IT operations by combining the best in cloud management with the best in networking hardware.
Cisco has also introduced Cisco Nexus Cloud, a cloud-managed platform delivered as-a-service that provides the simplest way to deploy, manage and operate cloud networking. Powered by Cisco Intersight for switching and multicloud management, Cisco Nexus Cloud will extend customers’ ability to manage across public cloud, private cloud and edge computing environments of any size or scale. Cisco Nexus Cloud is targeted for availability by the end of 2022.
Further, the company has launched Cisco ThousandEyes as an advancement in predictive networking. ThousandEyes WAN Insights is the first step toward delivering on the Cisco predictive networks vision, empowering enterprise IT to move from reactive to preventative-based networking, improving operational efficiency and assurance of application experience. Coming soon, ThousandEyes WAN Insights proactively alerts IT teams to issues before they happen and harm user experience, offering policy recommendations and path optimisation guidance. Alongside ThousandEyes’s view of Internet health and behaviour, the addition of ThousandEyes WAN Insights helps to empower customers to maximise their Internet and Cloud-centric environments and deliver flawless digital experiences.
Besides, Cisco has unveiled a unified secure access service edge (SASE) solution. Cisco+ Secure Connect Now is an as-a-service, cloud-managed solution available to customers via a single subscription. It provides customers with a SASE solution that is quick to deploy and easy to manage, radically simplifying how organisations connect and protect users, things and applications.
