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Cisco Flexes Its Muscle in Cloud: Helping Customers Be Cloud Smart to Deliver Exceptional Digital Experiences
2 Jun, 2021

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- Cisco hosts ‘Future Cloud’ event to showcase new hybrid cloud innovations
- Company unveils its groundbreaking new hybrid cloud compute platform for the next decade: the Cisco UCS® X-Series, powered by Cisco Intersight™
- Leading brands around the world share how they are working together with Cisco to build and support their cloud strategies including KBR, Kaleida Health, Rakuten Mobile and more
- Introducing the new Cisco UCS® X-Series: Cisco’s Unified Computing System™ (UCS) is used in data centers by more than 50,000 customers worldwide. Fully integrated with Cisco Intersight, UCS X-Series is a first-of-its kind system designed for hybrid operations from the cloud and across the clouds. Blending the best of rack and blade systems and featuring revolutionary UCS X-Fabric technology, it’s built for workload versatility today and comes future-ready for the next decade of industry innovation in processors, accelerators and computing interconnects.
- Intersight Cloud Orchestrator: Provides a low-code, easy-to-use automation framework that simplifies complex workflows, so IT Ops can easily orchestrate infrastructure and workloads and accelerate delivery of services.
- Intersight Workload Engine: A powerful platform for modern, cloud native workloads. Built on an open-source Kubernetes and Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) foundation using container-native virtualization, Intersight Workload Engine is a Cisco operating system for HyperFlex™ featuring consistent SaaS management.
- Cisco Service Mesh Manager: A new extension to the Intersight Kubernetes Service, bringing deep observability and simplified management with policy-based security and intuitive visualization of services topologies across K8s clusters on-prem and in the cloud.
- Cisco Cloud ACI: Available on AWS, Azure, and now on Google Cloud with general availability in the Fall of 2021. The Cloud ACI® common policy and operating model drastically reduces the cost and complexity of managing hybrid and multicloud deployments.
- For more information on additional new products supporting hybrid cloud operations visit here.
- Integration of ThousandEyes Internet and Cloud Intelligence with the Cisco Catalyst® 8000 Edge Series for SD-WAN and Cisco Nexus® 9000 switches for data centers to provide customers with valuable insights on network health and application performance by monitoring across campus, branch, data centers and every point of the WAN network between the user and applications.
- Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator acts a single pane of glass for configuring and managing common policies across multiple on-prem ACI sites, AWS and Microsoft Azure regions and, announcing today, coming this fall to Google Cloud.
- Intersight Cloud Orchestrator: Provides a low-code, easy-to-use framework to create and automate complex workflows, so IT Ops can easily orchestrate infrastructure and workloads and accelerate delivery of services.
- CX Business Critical Services for Cloud provide advisory services plus expertise to architect, deploy, secure and optimize digital transformations.
- CX Intersight Workload Optimizer Services enhance the resource consumption of applications in the cloud.
- CX Advanced Services for ThousandEyes and SD-WAN deliver the best application experience for cloud solutions, providing expert design and integration to reduce project complexity and speed transformation.
- Custom Quick Start Solutions provide services for end-to-end automation and infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
- UN/BOX the Future: Introducing Cisco UCS X-Series powered by Intersight
- UN/BOX Your Hybrid Cloud Future by Kaustubh Das
- Enriching SD-WAN Visibility with Cisco ThousandEyes Internet and Cloud Intelligence by JL Valente
- ThousandEyes Expands Global Vantage Points Across Cisco SD-WAN Platforms for Optimized Digital Experience by Angelique Medina
- Full-Stack Observability: A Quick Introduction for Networkers by Eric Thiel
- Diving Deeper into Hybrid Cloud Operations with Intersight by Vijay Venugopal