INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
Cisco’s Intersight
platform brings data
centre management
to the cloud
C
isco has unveiled Cisco
Intersight™, a management
and automation platform for
Cisco Unified Computing System™
(Cisco UCS®) and Cisco HyperFlex™
Systems, marking the start of a multi-
year strategic programme to provide
customers with clear IT advantages
that support their competitive business
goals. Cisco Intersight simplifies
data centre operations by delivering
Systems Management as a Service,
alleviating the need to maintain
islands of on-premise management
infrastructure. Complete system life
cycle management is delivered by Cisco
Intersight through machine learning,
analytics and automation. consistent management and policy
enforcement across bare metal server
environments, converged infrastructure
and hyperconverged infrastructure.
Cisco Intersight will deliver the unique
ability to connect and manage all of
these comprehensively.
Today, most IT organisations are
adopting a multi-cloud strategy,
and as a result customers need a
scalable and consistent management
environment across their data centres,
private clouds and public clouds
deployments. Customers also seek According to Gartner, “The growing
large quantity of configuration data
points and connections aggregated
from data centre deployments, edge,
cloud and IoT will increase IT ops
complexity, countering trends in
software-defined simplicity.”
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Application architectures are also
transforming with scale-out and multi-
site deployment models, delivered
by containers and micro-services. In
addition, DevOps accelerates the rate of
application development and continuous
feature delivery. Cisco Intersight
addresses these challenges, helping IT
staff optimise operations while enjoying
a more intuitive user experience.
Cisco has invested years of research
and development into software
innovations to bridge these gaps.
With the cost of an unplanned
data centre outage estimated at
thousands of dollars per minute, and
the extraordinary costs of corporate
security breaches, often due to
human error, IT leaders welcome new
advances in intelligent automation.
Customers are already participating
in an engineering preview of the
Intersight platform, connecting
thousands of UCS and HyperFlex
systems for testing and feedback.
It’s about the management,
not the machine
“Organisations that move to cloud-
based systems and management
platforms will find that service delivery
quality is significantly improved, the
overall risk to the business goes down,
and IT staff productivity is increased,”
said Matt Eastwood, Senior Vice
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