Fast IT
Unleashing
Business and IT working together
Changing role of IT
Today’s business leaders need to:
Adjust IT so it can quickly adapt
to changing business values
Reduce complexity and the cost
of operations
Protect data, innovation, and
intellectual property
Four powerful forces—social, mobile, cloud
and information—continue to drive change and
create new opportunities, creating demand for
advanced programmable infrastructure that
can execute at web scale.”
David Cearley, Vice President and Fellow, Gartner
(The Top 10 IT altering predictions for 2014)
Agility
The network is
under pressure
Global IP traffic will reach
1.4 Zettabytes by
2017 with mobile demand
set to increase 11x by 2018
(Cisco Visual Networking Index, 2013)
268,000,000,000+
mobile downloads,
generating
$77,000,000,000+
in revenue by 2017
Predicts 2014: Apps, Personal Cloud and Data Analytics
Will Drive New Consumer Interactions - Gartner
SIMPLICITY
Simplification of IT helps
businesses…
anage traffic growth and
M
connections
Protect network investments
Harness digital disruptions
ee into physical and virtual
S
networks
Optimizing traffic flows will help keep costs down.”
Kerby Lyons, VP Global Network Engineering, SunGard
Security
More endpoints and
data = more risks
90 percent of IT professionals ban non-work
browsing on company devices but more than
one-third say employees don’t comply
Within any given day Cisco blocks
over 320 million attacks and
detects 50,000 network intrusions
Cisco Annual Security Report 2014
Network programmability is a major step
forward a major step forward when it comes
to backing up and protecting data against new
world security threats.”
Kerby Lyons, VP Global Network Engineering, SunGard
How Cisco Fast IT can help
New connections, immense traffic growth, and
technology innovations require different IT model
Fast IT offers networking programmability based on
software-defined networking (SDN), cloud computing,
and management applications
End result is less complexity, more agility,
and assured security
Next Steps
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