Cisco Connect 2018 Malaysia

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Intent-Based Data Center:
Customer Perspective
Kausar Niyazee
Data Center Business Leader, ASEAN

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Enterprise Applications
Users
Enterprise Applications
Remember when things were “simple”?
Disaster Recovery
Additional Data Center

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Enterprise Applications
Users
Enterprise Applications
Then people wanted to work remotely.
I can manage servers from home!
My kid is sick, I’ll work from
home.
Checking email while on
PTO.
Disaster Recovery
Additional Data Center

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Enterprise Applications
Users
Enterprise Applications Containers
Cloud and Mobile adoption grew
Losing control over experience
Complexity
Disaster Recovery
Additional Data Center

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Enterprise Applications
Users
Enterprise Applications Containers
Cloud
container
networking
IoT - Fog
Something’s broken,
but what?
Disaster Recovery
Additional Data Center

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Enterprise Applications
Users
Enterprise Applications Containers
Cloud
container
networking
IoT - Fog
Cisco can help!
Cisco Intent based Data Center
Disaster Recovery
Additional Data Center

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App is the new business
Multicloud is the new Data Center
Developer is the new Customer
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Our Intent
• Highest performing DC
infrastructure RUNS your
enterprise applications!
• Sophisticated analytics that
LEARN about your
applications in real time.
• Real time decision engines
continuously ADAPT your
infrastructure to ensure
highest application
performance
• A rigorous security framework
PROTECTS every application!
• Cisco is uniquely differentiated

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The Intent Cycle
Adapt
Learn
Protect
Running
Applications

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Application maintenance
Data Center expenses
Performance issues
Too much downtime for patching,
maintenance, failures, etc.
Time vs. money
Ease of use
Ease of management
Data Center sprawl
Licensing expenses
Better use of existing resources
Data Center Business
Drivers
Large migration for its largest
Business Application
High availability,
Data storage/Recovery and Security
Introduction of heavy virtualization
and cloud/self services
Data Center optimization
Challenges Created
by Drivers

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Challenges Created
by Drivers
Large migration for its largest
Business Application
High availability,
Data storage/Recovery and Security
Introduction of heavy virtualization
and cloud/self services
Data Center optimization
Converged Infrastructure or roll your own
Migration methodology
Licensing
SLA/RTO/RPO
Backup strategies and windows
Antivirus is good enough, right?
Hypervisor choice
Consolidation ratios
Cloud or not to cloud
DR only
DR + Non-Prod
DR + Non-Prod + Reporting/BI
Decisions to be
Made

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Challenges Created
by Drivers
Large migration for its largest
Business Application
High availability,
Data storage/Recovery and Security
Introduction of heavy virtualization
and cloud/self services
Data Center optimization
Converged Infrastructure or roll your own
Migration methodology
Licensing
SLA/RTO/RPO
Backup strategies and windows
Antivirus is good enough, right?
Hypervisor choice
Consolidation ratios
Cloud or not to cloud
DR only
DR + Non-Prod
DR + Non-Prod + Reporting/BI
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Decisions to be
Made

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Cisco Enterprise Application Solutions
CVD
Right
Sizing
Service
Profiles
Nexus/ACI
World Record
Benchmarks
UCS
Management
Cisco UCS

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Cisco Data Center Reference Architecture
Infra. Manager
Infra. ops
Developer
Cloud Admin
LOB/IT Apps
Security Admin
TetrationanalyticsCiscosecurityportfolio
AppDynamics
Ciscoworkload
optimizationmanager
UCSperformance
Manager
Application
and business
performance
monitoring
Workload
optimization
and placement
Infrastructure
health and
performance
monitoring
Cisco
CloudCenter
Nexus UCS HyperFlex
ACI Cisco Intersight
Cisco Prime Service
Catalog (PSC/CPO)
3rd Party ITSM
Learn & Adapt RUN Protect