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Cisco’s Plan for Delivering the Data Center (and More) as a Service The networking giant is joining HPE and Dell in the pursuit of cloudifying the experience of consuming data center tech.
Cisco is following its peers like Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise into the brave new world of selling everything – even data center hardware – as a service.
It’s made several acquisitions that are expected to help it stand out in this small crowd of old-guard enterprise IT giants, the most consequential of which in this context being its $1 billion takeover of the network monitoring company ThousandEyes last year.
Cisco adds to its Nexus data-center-management software
Cisco integrates Data Center Network Manager into Nexus Dashboard, adding support for traditional network environments. Credit: Cisco
Most recently, Cisco said it has added similar support for its Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) software which manages existing networking systems running NX-OS.
For customers that means they can control newer ACI-based cloud and edge resources and now traditional DCNM-based systems all from a single console.
Another key component of the dashboard, Nexus Insights, lets customers monitor and analyze their fabric in real-time to identify anomalies, provide root-cause analysis, perform capacity planning, and accelerate troubleshooting. That application can now work with ACI and DCNM environments, Cisco stated.
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