Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO)

In this interview I talk with Mike Isaia, technical solutions architect, about the trend toward the use of multiple public cloud providers and how Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer simplifies performance and cost optimization across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

IT teams turn to cloud resource optimization solutions to make cloud platforms work smarter. Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO) is Cisco’s SaaS-based cloud resource optimization solution, recently named a leader in the GigaOm Radar for Cloud Resource Optimization.

This blog is the second in a series on public cloud optimization, about how organizations can achieve cost benefits offered by the public cloud through effective cloud migration planning.

You can prevent surprise bills for over-spending in the cloud, and you can be smart about optimizing your cloud resources on an ongoing basis to truly take advantage of cloud elasticity. Getting visibility into workload optimization across your entire infrastructure can potentially uncover additional cost savings in your data center.

Cisco has been pursuing a strategy to make it easier for organizations to manage their hybrid cloud environments from SaaS platforms for 10 years. Our strategy is driven by customer requirements derived from (CABs), surveys, and other sources, now including results from our 2022 Global Hybrid Cloud Trends Report.

In a recent Forrester survey 94% of respondents acknowledged wasting money in the cloud, and one in four organizations surpassed their projected cloud spend. So how do you join the select club of the cloud spend optimization mavericks?

Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer discovers how all the parts of your hybrid world are connected and automates day-to-day application resource management operations for you. It provides visibility into application and infrastructure inter-dependencies and insight from real-time analytics powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help ensure the right resource decisions at the right time to ensure application performance.

Today’s digital economy runs on applications that are fueled by resources from a diverse set of environments, distributed technologies, architectures, platforms, and tools. The demands of this reality make application resource management (ARM) an essential function of IT. This blog reviews the basics of application resource management, why IT departments should care, and how they can get started.

This is the first blog in a three-part series on application resource management. By getting in front of application resource management, your team can eliminate resources as a cause of application delay to confidently deliver reliable digital experiences, drive growth, and be a better business partner.