automation

This is the first installment of our automation strategy series, based on a Forrester Consulting thought leadership paper commissioned by Cisco: Modernize Operations To Digitally Transform And Weather Any Storm. The research focuses on how enterprises can modernize their operations to boost agility — which is key to their ability to weather adversity.

We wanted to understand how automation enables operational maturity and – ultimately – the business itself. We partnered with Forrester Consulting to research organizations of varying sizes and across industries with a global footprint.

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. […]

Common IT tasks that are straightforward on a small scale can quickly prove overwhelming at larger scales. Intersight Cloud Orchestrator allows administrators to more easily manage what lies ahead.

Cisco Intersight and HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Business are like peanut butter and jelly, better together. With the general availability of Intersight Service for Terraform, IT Ops teams are now able to bring infrastructure as Code (IaC) securely and easily to their on-prem environment.

Both Cisco NSO and NetBox offer robust APIs and well formatted data models. See how to keep the device inventory in your Cisco NSO servers accurate based on your NetBox based Source of Truth.

In this #CiscoChat, panelists will expand on a conversation started at CiscoLive about the Cisco and HashiCorp collaboration and Intersight Service for Terraform. Join us April 8th at 10am PDT.

Cisco Secure Email and Cisco SecureX Orchestration team-up to help the email administrator automate phishing email threats and more by using workflow triggers and actions, advancing your email protection to the next level!

Cisco Nexus Dashboard now supports on-boarding of Cisco NX-OS/DCNM sites. Cisco Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) allows operators to realize a true hybrid cloud scenario, defining, and orchestrating network policy across DCNM, ACI, cloud and edge across domains.