Data Center

In part one of this 3-part series, I shared some thoughts about how you can simplify your network for consistently deploying, managing and securing workloads across a multicloud environment. This time around I would like to look at how users and devices access these distributed applications and workloads with the security and performance they need.

We are very excited to announce the availability of Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) 5.0 that helps customers future proof their networks in these challenging times. 

Investment protection is usually discussed as a business advantage, but it is also about easing the technical and operational pain the customer endures.

As Cisco is helping countries develop their digital capabilities during the on-going crisis, enterprises are seeing unprecedented application and growth in data within Data Centers (DC’s).

The enterprise database manages the life blood of the organization, which includes the third rail of database deployments. So how do IT administrators keep this data protected and secured for 24/7 access all while staying compliant with database updates?

The combination of Dell EMC PowerStore systems and Cisco MDS 9000 enables the scale, performance, visibility and operational excellence needed for efficient deployment of all your next-generation workloads.

As AI workloads mature, the need for greater granularity and flexibility in accelerated compute resource allocation has increased. With support for the new NVIDIA A100 GPU Cisco UCS and HyperFlex will deliver performance and versatility for running AI at scale.

The Cisco Data Intelligence Platform with NVIDIA GPUs will provide Hadoop and AI customers additional options to run their AI workloads on Hadoop or a Kubernetes farm natively using Apache Spark 3.0.

Cisco Intersight is a SaaS-based, intelligent operations platform that enables monitoring, deployment, compliance, telemetry, and more for your data center infrastructure.