A New Approach to Continuous Monitoring in the Cloud

The document discusses the evolution from traditional IT to hybrid cloud environments. It describes how hybrid cloud management platforms can provide a unified portal for orchestrating applications across private, public and managed clouds. The document also outlines how open source technologies like OpenStack can help integrate innovation while avoiding vendor lock-in and discusses how developer-centric approaches are needed to develop cloud-native applications for hybrid clouds.

The document discusses simplifying cloud adoption with Cisco technologies. It describes the challenges of a multi-cloud environment and the benefits of building a private cloud with automation and orchestration. Cisco solutions like UCS, ACI, and Tetration help deliver a cloud experience on premises, while CloudCenter allows for application-centric management across private and public clouds. Performance and security tools provide visibility and optimization. The conclusion advocates leveraging all resources to meet customer expectations around cost, security and access models.

The document discusses Cisco SD-WAN and its advantages over traditional and legacy WAN architectures. It highlights how Cisco SD-WAN uses a centralized control plane and software-defined intelligence to provide automated, predictive, and intent-based networking. This allows for flexible, scalable, and secure connectivity across hybrid WAN transports in a way that is simpler to manage and operate than hardware-centric WAN solutions.

The document discusses Cisco Meraki and how its cloud-managed networking solutions simplify IT. Meraki offers wireless, switching, security, and other products that are integrated and managed through a single cloud dashboard. It has over 140,000 customers and 2 million devices online. The cloud model provides benefits like easy management, scalability, cost savings, and rapid feature updates. Industry analysts predict growing adoption of cloud-based networking and software-defined WAN due to rising bandwidth needs, new applications, and the need to reduce complexity and improve agility.

This document provides an overview and description of 7 technology demonstrations that will be shown at the Brocade Technology Pavilion at the Federal Forum 2015 event. The demonstrations showcase Brocade's networking and security solutions for high-performance encryption, data center connectivity, cloud access, software-defined networking, OpenStack integration, mobile analytics, traffic management, data prioritization, secure communications, and congestion mitigation.

The document discusses Cisco Meraki and how its cloud-managed networking solutions simplify IT. Meraki offers wireless, switching, security, and other products that are integrated and managed through a single cloud dashboard. It has over 140,000 customers and 2 million devices online. The cloud model provides benefits like easy management, scalability, cost savings, and rapid feature updates. Industry analysts predict growing adoption of cloud-based networking and software-defined WAN due to rising bandwidth needs, new applications, and the need to reduce complexity and improve agility.

This document discusses Cisco's UCS and HyperFlex infrastructure solutions. It provides an overview of Cisco UCS momentum in the server market and highlights new features in the fifth-generation UCS M5 portfolio, including increased cores, memory, storage and GPU support. It also summarizes Cisco HyperFlex including the new HX Data Platform software and HyperFlex configurations. The document is aimed at providing an update on Cisco's compute infrastructure for hybrid cloud environments.

The document discusses Cisco's DNA Assurance solution. It provides an agenda that covers business requirements, context, learning, user requirements, technology requirements, and the various components of DNA Assurance including client assurance, network assurance, application assurance, and machine learning. It discusses challenges around network operations including time spent troubleshooting and replicating issues. It also covers how DNA Assurance uses concepts like context, learning, and design thinking to provide insights and automate remediation.

The document discusses Cisco's next generation SD-WAN solution which includes four main planes - orchestration, control, data, and management. The control plane is managed by Cisco vSmart controllers which facilitate fabric discovery, distribute policies to vEdge routers, and implement control plane policies. The data plane consists of Cisco vEdge routers which provide secure connectivity and implement data and application-aware routing policies. The solution offers a single pane of glass management system through Cisco vManage and provides analytics through Cisco vAnalytics.

This document discusses techniques for optimizing a client's Wi-Fi experience, including improving channel efficiency, minimizing cell size, using band selection and load balancing, and leveraging standards like 802.11k/v/r to improve roaming. It also covers using the right antennas and Cisco's solutions for Wi-Fi assurance and analytics to gain visibility and automate remediation.

This document discusses Cisco SD-WAN and its ability to deliver intent-based networking to branches and the WAN. It begins by noting the business challenges of traditional network architectures in supporting modern needs around mobility, cloud applications, and security. It then introduces Cisco SD-WAN as a software-defined solution that provides automated, predictive, and business-intent driven networking through centralized control, application-aware policies, hybrid WAN transport, and integrated security and analytics capabilities. Key components of the Cisco SD-WAN architecture are also summarized, including the data, control, management, and orchestration planes.

Imagine if you could deploy highly secure new services at web speed on demand to customers and partners - complete with personalized capabilities. With this environment you’re creating innovative new services in minutes, not months, accelerating your time-to-revenue while reducing operational costs on an open platform. You have pre-packaged software service solutions that help you transform your business and the businesses of your customers. And you’re letting your customers use their existing customer premises equipment (CPE), to connect to virtual services from the cloud, reducing capital costs and business risk associated with rolling out new services. It’s all possible with the Cisco Virtual Managed Services Solution based on the combination of the complementary Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) and the Cisco Evolved Services Platform (ESP). This open infrastructure and software combined with industry leading service orchestration, software-defined networking (SDN), and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies automate the delivery of business services tailored to your customers from the cloud.

Software defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) abstract network hardware to create an overlay network. This allows for policy-based routing, dynamic path selection, and quality of service combined with application visibility. SD-WANs improve network availability and performance, reduce costs and complexity, and enhance security and insights compared to traditional branch deployment methods. While SD-WANs offer benefits, they also have some disadvantages like upfront hardware costs, licensing fees, and less direct troubleshooting control.

The document discusses the benefits of dedicated networks for IP storage. It notes that storage demands are increasing as storage grows from terabytes to petabytes and higher service level agreements are required. Dedicated networks can deliver predictable performance and resiliency for business critical applications. They also allow for storage-class resiliency and non-disruptive failover. Such networks also enable local replication performance over long distances and unified management of IP and Fibre Channel storage networks.

Cisco Digital Network Architecture is based on these pillars 1) Service Virtualisation (eNFV and 3th party hosting) 2) Automation/SDN/Policy based networking 3) Analytics 4) Orchestration 5) Hybrid 6) Open and Programmable 7) Physical and Virtual 8) Software Driven Analytics are key to implement NaaS (Network as a Sensor) and NeeE (Network as Enforcer) https://masimatteo.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/from-we-must-have-a-network-cheap-to-ask-the-network-how-to-reinvent-the-business/

Cisco SD-WAN provides intent-based networking for digital businesses facing unprecedented demands on their networks. It offers greater agility, advanced threat protection, and better user experience through a cloud managed fabric. Cisco SD-WAN simplifies WAN operations and management while enabling consistent application performance across physical and virtual endpoints. It also improves security and simplifies the transition to cloud-based applications and services.

Cisco Meraki provides a complete cloud-managed IT solution including wireless access points, switches, security appliances, network insights, and endpoint management. Their portfolio has grown to over 250,000 unique customers managing over 3.5 million Meraki devices. Meraki's solutions are simplified and centrally managed through an integrated cloud platform, providing benefits such as reduced IT resources, greater manageability, and up to 67% cost savings compared to on-premise solutions.

The document discusses the new enterprise reality of hybrid workers, modern app architectures, software as a service (SaaS) adoption, and agile networks. It notes that enterprise IT is rapidly losing visibility and control as infrastructure is provisioned at the edge and outages can be caused by external providers. ThousandEyes provides cloud and network intelligence to give enterprises deep visibility into every layer of the network and applications to help optimize digital experiences. This includes monitoring application performance, network paths, routing, and correlating data to identify issues. ThousandEyes has agents around the world and integrates with popular platforms.