Cisco Data Center Strategy
Defined by Applications — Driven by Policy — Delivered as a Service/Solution
Business Requirements
TRADITIONAL
Cisco Data Center Solutions Deliver:
Application Centricity
• MicroServices
• Containers/PaaS
• Elastic and distributed
CLOUD NATIVE
• Traditional &
cloud-native apps
• NFV/NFVi
Cloud Adoption
APPLICATIONS
• Policy consistency
across clouds
• Full application portability
MANAGEMENT AND ORCHESTRATION
• Enterprise-wide
• SP/Cloud services
Policy and Security
POLICY
NETWORK
POLICY
COMPUTE
& STORAGE
POLICY
• SDN/ACI
• Workload-focused
• Operations and
compliance driven
HYBRID CLOUD
Automation and DevOps
SECURITY AND SERVICES
FLEXIBLE SOFTWARE MODEL
• Network programmability
• Big Data/
hyperconvergence
Business Outcomes
Analytics and Insights
EFFICIENCY
SPEED
• Hybrid services
• Business-focused
• Agile
• Embedded telemetry
DISRUPTION
• Virtualization
• Cross-domain
• Infrastructure as Code
• Real time
PRIVATE
CISCO
METAPOD
POLICY
Nexus Switching
MDS Family
Physical and virtual
switching for NX-OS
based LAN/SAN
Nexus 1000v/AVS to
Nexus 9000 and ACI
Storage networking
on NX-OS MDS 9200
to MDS 9700
UCS Integrated
Infrastructure
Private cloud building
blocks UCS, Nexus
UCS
Compute, network
and storage access
B-Series, C-Series,
M-Series, UCS Mini
Cisco HyperFlex
Systems
Cisco Security
Solutions
Cloud and Systems
Management
Infrastructure
Management
HyperConverged
Infrastructure based
on UCS technology
Physical/Virtual ASA
with FirePOWER
Application Policy
Infrastructure Controller
(APIC) for ACI
UCS Director: Policybased orchestration for
integrated infrastructure
INFRASTRUCTURE
BROAD ECOSYSTEM
Any Application Across Any Consumption Model
Cisco ONE
Enterprise
Cloud Suite
Private cloud
solutions
SOFTWARE
Application partners
Data center partners
Hybrid cloud partners
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