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divide in 13 states across the nation. Inter- responsibility as business leaders to step clusive future for all Michiganders.” Moving
net access at community sites is powered up and mobilize the tools and innovations into the future, the Michigan Moonshot will
and secured by Cisco’s next-generation at our disposal to help curtail the growing continue to identify and lessen the impacts
Wi-Fi and cloud security technology. The disparities in our communities caused by of inequitable access to broadband inter-
overall effort is supported through Cisco’s the digital divide,” said Nick Michaelides, net with the help from our communities. If
Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) pro- senior vice president, U.S. Public Sector at your community, private or philanthropic
gram, which has over 900 active or com- Cisco. “We are proud to launch this initia- organization is interested in supporting
pleted mass-scale digitization projects in tive alongside Merit and Toyota to help en- local Community Access Network sites,
37 countries around the world. “It is our sure equity of access, and to power an in- please contact moonshot@merit.edu.

Cisco Delivers New Platform Solutions to Drive Workload Agility across
Public and Private Clouds

Cisco announced new software-delivered solutions
designed to simplify IT operations across on-premise
data centers and multicloud environments. With this
milestone, Cisco is enabling greater business agility for
its customers and empowering developers to deliver and
scale innovative application experiences faster. Today’s
business environment is changing faster than ever.
Applications have become more distributed, workforces
are more mobile, and the demands on our systems are
greater than ever. In order to face these challenges,
IT teams need greater insights and automation to
deliver true technology agility. Cisco is unveiling agile
IT platforms to help technology groups respond to
these market transitions. “Complexity can paralyze driving rapid and consistent application innovation. Intersight Workload
our teams. Our systems can no longer be powerful, Optimizer significantly simplifies application resources management.
but brittle. For IT to be as agile as their businesses With a single tool that provides real-time, full-stack visibility and
require, they need solutions obsessed with simplicity,” insights, customers can balance application performance and cost.
said Todd Nightingale, SVP and GM, Cisco Enterprise Intersight integration with AppDynamics provides IT teams with visibility
Networking and Cloud. “This year, technology groups to improve management across infrastructure and applications and stay
around the globe were tested by unprecedented change. ahead of problems that can impact user experience.
This fundamental shift in how businesses, schools and • Cisco Nexus Dashboard: The Cisco Nexus Dashboard is a single insights
governments operate requires IT teams to transform how and automation platform to operate multicloud data center networks
they function. Today, Cisco is announcing IT platforms spanning on-premise, virtual edge and cloud sites. Bringing together
for multicloud operations that provide advanced insights Cisco’s orchestration, insights and assurance services together with
and automation to help organizations transform faster.” critical 3rd party services, Nexus Dashboard is a simple to use interface
Cisco is bringing a never-before-experienced level of to transform operations. The Nexus Dashboard drives the adoption of
efficiency to cloud, application, SecOps, NetOps and cloud-native application practices leading to a faster path to return on
DevOps teams. As a cloud-neutral vendor, only Cisco infrastructure investment.
allows customers to maintain choice and control • Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE): Cisco ISE now simplifies secure
across their full IT stack with simplified and consistent network access across all domains, extending the zero-trust workplace
operations. Cisco provides unrivaled visibility from the to anywhere and on anything. With the latest innovations, customers
application to the infrastructure, allowing customers to can use ISE to intelligently identify a variety of IoT endpoints to enforce
deliver the best application experiences. New solutions consistent policies from the cloud to give teams the agility and flexibility
include: they need to secure their organizations.
• Cisco Intersight: Building on its foundation as a leading “Cisco’s new solutions are part of an overall effort to transform how cus-
systems management platform, Cisco Intersight’s tomers connect people, secure their organization, and automate their pro-
mission is to become the world’s simplest hybrid cloud cesses,” said analyst Will Townsend, Networking Practice Head, Moor In-
platform that connects private data centers to private sights & Strategy. “It is designed to bring together platforms and portfolios
clouds. With the new Intersight Kubernetes Service, to help customers respond and adapt to business disruptions, accelerate
infrastructure teams can now automate the lifecycle cloud adoption and transform IT operating models.” The new Cisco Inter-
management of Kubernetes and containerized sight innovations and the Cisco Nexus Dashboard will be available by the
applications across any environment. This represents end of the calendar year. Cisco Intersight Kubernetes Service will be made
a major leap forward in the container ecosystem by available in the first half of 2021. Cisco ISE innovations are available now.

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