Name: The State of Hybrid Cloud Automation from Industry Leaders
Start: 2022-04-12T01:41:00Z
End: 2022-04-12T01:41:54.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Cisco makes your clouds work smarter. In today’s digital-first world, the cloud is how you connect with customers and employees, and your success is determined by the quality of that experience. For years we’ve been a quiet leader in cloud. We don’t provide clouds, we connect them and make them work better. While the cloud evolves, Cisco continues to innovate, enabling all your clouds to work smarter.

Microservices provide development agility with robust and scalable architecture options. However, they also can introduce unwanted complexity. A consistent networking model to support modern application development and operations is now possible, and Cisco Service Mesh Manager provides the solution. Join us to learn how Cisco Service Mesh Manager, an extension of Intersight Kubernetes Service, simplifies the communication and security between microservices, and helps enable operators to accelerate troubleshooting and ensure optimized application performance in cloud or on-premises.

In this demo you will learn:

How Cisco Service Mesh Manager takes the pain out of Istio with an intuitive user experience
Ease of installation, mesh management and run-time diagnostics with a single cloud management console
How to assess the minimal time to value for your organization

Cisco Service Mesh Manager: Helping You Deploy Microservices Applications Faster

Rethink cloud operations: deploy, manage, and support your distributed environment in the cloud

IT and infrastructure teams continue to be tasked with delivering digital experiences that are more important than ever to their organizations. The number of applications continue to grow across on-prem, edge, and hybrid cloud environments. Join our technical experts and learn how to configure and deploy UCS, Hyperflex and 3rd party infrastructure in the cloud with the Cisco Intersight cloud operations platform.

Please join us for a demo, where you will see the latest features of Cisco Intersight and learn how it:

Allows you to manage lifecycle operations from anywhere with the convenience and security of the cloud.
Helps you stay ahead of problems with proactive recommendations and integrated TAC support.
Gets systems up and running quickly with a single operating model to automate tasks and help eliminate failures.
Continuously delivers global intelligence, insights, and actionable recommendations.

Rethink cloud operations: Manage your distributed environment in the cloud

Whether your applications run in the cloud, on-premises, or both, the goal of IT Operations is the same: optimize application performance while minimizing operating costs. With thousands of apps to manage, the problem has grown beyond human scale. Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer is the answer to this challenge. Our real-time decision engine lowers costs, automates workloads, and optimizes application resources across IT—all from one place.

Join us for a demo where our technical experts will show you:

How Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer increases efficient workload performance
The simple setup with quicker time to value
How to manage and optimize application workloads in the cloud
The latest in on-premises optimization and cloud-native integrations

Unlock the power of observability for your whole IT environment

Today’s applications are more diverse and distributed than ever, living across a complex, multidomain world that encompasses enterprise data centers; campus, branch, and edge locations; and private and public clouds. You need power and simplicity for applications, anywhere.

Join us and hear from experts on the latest capabilities of Cisco Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), Cisco HyperFlex. Learn how it can help you power traditional and cloud-native applications, simplify DevOps enablement, and optimize operations.

In this webinar, you will learn:

The new realities of hybrid cloud operations
Cisco’s strategy for hybrid cloud operations and infrastructure
The latest innovations in Cisco HyperFlex with HyperFlex 5.0
Why it matters for modern applications and infrastructure

Hyperconvergence innovations for the core, cloud, and edge

With this new world of hybrid networking, multicloud does not have to mean complexity. Cisco Cloud Application Centric Infrastructure (Cloud ACI) is the solution. It captures business and user intents and translates them into native policy constructs for applications deployed across various cloud environments for pure efficiency and simplicity. And now the Cloud ACI solution is on Google Cloud.

Join us to learn how to:

Extend Cisco Cloud ACI capabilities on Google Cloud and see a demo of the solution
Deploy next-generation applications across multiple clouds with consistent operations, visibility, and control
Enable common policy abstraction, governance, and compliance across heterogeneous cloud environments
Enable business continuity and disaster recovery using a backup and recovery site in the public cloud
Enable elasticity for resources across an on-premises data center and cloud
Enable consistent security posture for risk mitigation and operational simplicity with cloud-native policy constructs

Navigate the future of hybrid cloud software-defined networking

Organizations expect clear business outcomes when operating, troubleshooting, and scaling across the hybrid cloud network. Requirements include predicting the impact of changes, providing in-depth fabric visibility to help remediate issues quickly, and delivering the business transformation required to stay ahead.

See how to break down siloes created by custom-built dashboards and the lack of end-to-end visibility across operating domains. Learn how Cisco Nexus Dashboard provides tools to allow operators to work effectively in multiple areas, including NetOps, DevOps, SecOps, and ITOps. See how to get complete control from a single pane of glass.

In this demo you will learn:

How an operations team can combat the new, complex hybrid cloud reality
How to get a unified correlated view of your network infrastructure
Ways to respond proactively and remove technology siloes
The process to respond quickly to business needs, without increasing operating costs and tool sprawl
How to manage the multidimensional challenge of keeping applications and networks in sync

Unlock new value from your hybrid cloud network

Networks need to become simpler, more agile, proactive, and more intuitive to keep up with the pace of change. Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (formerly Cisco Data Center Network Manager*) helps address today’s challenges for Cisco NX-OS-enabled deployments, spanning new fabric architectures, IP Fabric for Media, and storage networking deployments.

Accessed through Cisco Nexus Dashboard, Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller is a new modern and modular architecture that provides complete automation, extensive visibility, and consistent operations for your data center. With a new GUI you get a comprehensive solution to easily manage the most complex network environments.

Much more than just a name change, see the evolution of the Cisco Nexus Fabric Controller in action. In this live demo, technical experts will demonstrate new 12.0 capabilities, including:

Streamlined data center automation and centralized applications with a single pane of glass view with Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Scaled out deployments with a new microservices-based architecture
Cisco Nexus Dashboard fabric discovery capability
Reduced licensing friction with our Smart Licensing Policy
Beginning with Release 12.0, Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) is now Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller. Read the announcement.

Advanced network management with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller

How to automate, monitor, and analyze your data center fabric in real timeWhat you can’t see, you can’t operate, control, and automate. With advanced network analytics and automation solutions, your network can provide the eyes, ears, and intelligence to know precisely what’s going on. It can deliver 360-degree visibility into traffic flows and provide clear guidance on what to do if anything is detected or predicted.

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights embodies a modern, comprehensive microservices architecture made to scale horizontally, leveraging open-source infrastructure code to meet your business objectives. It delivers dynamic correlation, impact analysis, proactive alerts, failure prediction, and remediation, along with operational data visualization.

In this webinar, you will see Cisco Nexus Dashboard insights in action. Learn how to:

Detect change in configuration or operational states before and after switch-upgrades
Derive insights into network microburst and flows
Compare and contrast time-synced data of multiple parameters to gain a deeper understanding of issues and behaviors
Leverage third-party integrations, ServiceNow and Splunk, that enable ITOM/ITSM workflow automation

How to automate, monitor, and analyze your data center fabric in real time

Cloud-native application architectures are becoming mainstream, increasing the need for rapid container operationalization and increased security, as well as the tools to manage them. But organizations must simplify cloud-native deployments to keep up in a fast-paced environment while minimizing security risks. Now there is an opportunity for complete observability and security across your entire IT environment, making you a DevSecOps superhero.

In this webinar, our technical experts will demo:

Challenges faced in a cloud-native deployment
How observability and security risks get amplified in the process
How Intersight Kubernetes Service along with extensions such as Cisco Service Mesh Manager and Secure Cloud Native can simplify your deployments and minimize security risks
How Intersight Workload Optimizer can give you full observability into your cloud-native architecture

Kubernetes Observability and Security: Creating DevSecOps Superheroes

Cisco Nexus Dashboard provides a single automation platform for hybrid cloud network provisioning, operational management, real-time telemetry data, continuous assurance, and compliance checks. This is done all while simplifying the workflow, including the adoption of cloud-native application practices, and providing a faster path to ROI.

In this demo:

Learn about new features available in Cisco Nexus Dashboard 2.1 to make it simpler to deploy, consume, and enable services with a single interface
See how to centralize hybrid cloud operations with Cisco Nexus Dashboard One View
Get tips on how to deploy the Cisco Nexus Dashboard in any form factor—physical, virtual, or cloud—giving you multiple deployment options with maximum flexibility

Cisco Nexus Dashboard 2.1: One platform for hybrid cloud automation

Join us for a demo of Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator to learn how you can simplify the orchestration and automation of your infrastructure and workloads across your hybrid cloud environment. We will take a closer look at Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator’s powerful low-code/no-code workflow automation tool with enterprise-grade features for security, resilience, and controls.

In this webinar you will learn how to:

More quickly deliver infrastructure resources across hybrid clouds

Foster a common experience deploying apps across hybrid cloud environments

Stitch together pre-defined tasks to safely automate the deployment of your infrastructure

Keep up with the rapid pace of application changes

Simplify Orchestration of Workloads with Intersight Cloud Orchestrator

Join us for a special Hybrid Cloud Demo Series webinar featuring Cisco Cloud Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco Cloud ACI). We'll do a live demo of this comprehensive solution for simplified operations, automated network connectivity, consistent policy management, and visibility for multiple on-premises data centers and public clouds or multicloud environments.

In this session, hear directly from our experts as they demonstrate these key Cloud ACI capabilities:

Automation of interconnect: Automate the interconnect of multiple on-premises and cloud data centers. Automated and secure multicloud connectivity through unified management.

Universal policy model for multicloud: Enable consistent security posture, governance, and compliance through a common policy abstraction.

Centralized cloud management: Single pane of glass for management, visibility, monitoring, and troubleshooting across multicloud environments.

Simplify your hybrid cloud environment with Cisco Cloud ACI

Key Innovations to Modernize Your Storage Network -
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Please join us for a webinar with ESG Research analysts and Cisco subject matter experts to discuss the growing demand to accelerate the business’ access to data by modernizing the SAN.

As businesses rely more on their data, increased pressure is placed on IT organization and the underlying infrastructure to accelerate the business’ access to data. This increased pressure makes modernizing the SAN a key priority for many IT organizations, and Cisco can help. In this webinar, we will discuss Ethernet and Fiber Channel networks, and compelling innovations to modernize SAN fabric with no disruption. You’ll also learn how to maximize the value of the existing infrastructure assets.

Be a part of the discussion with ESG analysts and Cisco subject matter experts at this real-time roundtable on key innovations to modernize your storage network.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about:
• Investment protection for your SAN
• Deep visibility with built-in hardware-based analytics
• IT Automation to reduce OPEX with DevOps tools
• Cisco SAN Analytics live demo

Key Innovations to Modernize Your Storage Network - Insider for Networking

Join us for a special Hybrid Cloud Demo Series webinar featuring Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker. We'll do a live demo of this simple, scalable, and cost-effective solution for monitoring high-volume and business-critical network traffic.

In this session, hear directly from our experts as they demonstrate this rich set of observability capabilities. You’ll learn how to:

Ensure continuous delivery of service with a highly secure, highly available network
Monitor and correlate underlying network and application performance
Achieve visibility into traffic that supports troubleshooting and compliance.

Pervasive network and packet visibility with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker

Cisco Intersight is already established as an industry-leading infrastructure lifecycle automation platform for Cisco HyperFlex and Cisco Unified Computing System. Cisco recently unveiled the first wave of new Intersight services that deliver intelligent visualization, optimization, and orchestration for applications and infrastructure across the entire hybrid cloud environments of its customers. 

This session we'll take a closer look at Intersight services: Intersight Workload Optimizer, which provides full-stack visibility and multicloud resource management, from bare metal servers, hypervisors, to Kubernetes clusters, serverless and applications components. Plus, Intersight Kubernetes Services, to help you simplify container management across on-premises and public clouds with one solution.

Cisco Intersight Cloud Operations Platform – A Closer Look

The role of IT is changing as businesses adapt to a more digitally driven economy. It’s now imperative that IT gains full visibility and control by bringing together teams, technology and operations to give a consistent experience. All delivered across bare metal, virtualized workloads, container workloads and now hybrid cloud. 

In this webinar, we’ll cover how Cisco cloud and compute solutions make this all a reality. Even better, you’ll hear direct from Milind Sawant, Deputy General Manager, IT, Saraswat Bank.

Join this session to learn from Milind how Saraswat Bank has been able to stay ahead of the curve and adopt a purpose-built platform to help them set a hybrid cloud operating model.

Modern digital solutions powering a hybrid cloud world

With the explosion of apps deployed and delivered across on-prem and public clouds, maximizing investments while continuously balancing performance, cost, and risk is a tall order for IT Operations and infrastructure teams.

Join this webinar to see how Cisco Intersight, our new cloud operations platform, can help bring order to your hybrid IT world by bridging on-premises and public cloud infrastructure, workloads, and apps.

We’ll take a deeper dive on: 
• Our customers’ modern landscape and challenges for IT operations and infrastructure teams
• Cisco Intersight architecture, new services and value
• A demo of Intersight Workload Optimizer

Register today to learn how Cisco can help you simplify cloud operations and elevate your teams to accelerate innovation.

Cisco Intersight: The cloud operations platform for a hybrid IT world

Examine the current and future state of hybrid cloud automation with leading IT, cloud, and data center automation companies, including Cisco, HashiCorp, RedHat Anisble, and Puppet, in this live webinar. This open discussion and Q&A will dive into the challenges and opportunities in driving end-to-end automation across hybrid clouds and the best practices for managing these environments.

In this webinar, you will hear from industry experts on:

How businesses are managing the challenges of operating in a hybrid cloud world
What to consider when building a strategy for your cloud migration
Best practices for automating cloud migration in hybrid and public clouds
How rapid growth of containerization is impacting automation strategies
How IT organizations can measure ROI and an outlook on the future of hybrid cloud automation

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