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Cisco Reveals New Cloud Software, Hardware and Operating Model to
Accelerate Enterprises’ Hybrid Cloud Adoption

Cisco announced new innovations to help
customers accelerate and simplify their
hybrid cloud journeys. As application
growth continues to drive more
interactions between people and things,
businesses are striving for simplicity and
flexibility to manage application diversity.
Modern applications have become more
dynamic requiring infrastructure to be
more adaptable. At the same time, IT is
being asked to support enterprises’ rapidly
changing business requirements and
speed up infrastructure and application
delivery. As a result, organizations are
shifting to a hybrid multicloud operating
model to centrally manage infrastructure
and applications wherever they reside and
deliver optimized application experiences. administrators to observe and operate now enhanced with new accelerated
In fact, a recent Gartner end-user survey containers across on-prem and multiple computing capabilities and flexible
showed 76 percent of respondents who public clouds from a single platform. high-performance networking. These
are currently using public, hybrid or • Cisco Intersight integrations with Am- include:
multicloud infrastructure reported using azon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon • Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Node
multiple cloud IaaS and PaaS providers. EC2): Expands hybrid cloud capabilities with Cisco UCS X-Fabric Technology:
Cisco is advancing its strategy to deliver to include combined inventory and au- Provides customers the flexibility to
innovation at all levels of the hybrid cloud tomation of virtual machines in AWS in connect compute nodes to NVIDIA
stack, ranging from silicon to computing addition to on-prem environments. accelerated computing GPU resources
systems to a SaaS-delivered operations Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged to meet the needs of modern AI/ML
platform with public cloud integrations - Infrastructure and virtual desktop infrastructure
all designed to help customers simplify • Introducing Cisco HyperFlex Express: workloads. This enables improved
and manage multiple cloud environments Simplified hardware and software that efficiency using a single system for
and applications. “While enterprises provides customers with a fast on-ramp blade and rack workloads.
are standardizing on hybrid, multicloud to hybrid cloud, reducing deployment • 5th Gen Unified Fabric for performance
environments, many are still building speeds with on-prem hyperconverged and simplicity: Industry-leading
a strategy to minimize complexity and infrastructure powered by Cisco performance in a modular system
maximize value with an operational model Intersight. including 100G single port support and
and tools that deliver flexibility, speed • Cisco HyperFlex systems with 3rd Gen 200G bandwidth to a single server that
and simplicity,” said DD Dasgupta, Vice AMD EPYC TM processors: Expands delivers investment protection, lower
President, Product Management, Cloud and customers’ choice with AMD EPYC costs, and ample bandwidth to power
Compute Business Unit at Cisco. “Cisco CPU-based hyperconverged systems data intensive applications.
has paved the way to help IT operations that deliver outstanding cluster “With increasing cloud adoption,
transform with hybrid cloud, enabling an performance and efficiency for a diverse application outcomes are the new
operational model that allows businesses set of workloads. currency, and IT must modernize their
to adapt quickly, and streamline the • Innovation for Edge Computing: New environments to dynamically deploy
secure delivery of applications whether containerized local witness software resources to suit multiple application
they are located in on-prem datacenters can run on a variety of Cisco switching, demands,” said Matthew Kimball, Vice
or in the public cloud.” New hybrid cloud routing and IoT industrial networking President and Principal Analyst at Moor
innovations announced today include: platforms, often already present in edge Insights and Strategy. “Cisco is building
Cisco Intersight Platform environments, providing an efficient, on its strategy and technology foundation
• Cisco Intersight Kubernetes Service lightweight high-availability solution for to help customers simplify their hybrid
with Attached Clusters: New Intersight 2-node clusters. multicloud environments and provide the
capability that allows customers to Cisco UCS X-Series infrastructure that powers all types of
connect their on-prem Kubernetes • Cisco UCS X-Series: The fastest workloads and delivers the most value
clusters to new or existing Kubernetes growing UCS system in Cisco’s history, from using on-premises resources in
clusters in public cloud, allowing IT the UCS X-Series Modular System is coordination with public cloud services.”

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