Secure Firewall & Multicloud Defense: Secure Connectivity With Simplified Policy Across Clouds

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Most of our large customers today have datacenters and leverage multiple clouds to maximize flexibility and agility for meeting their business needs. Traditionally, the security for these environments has rested with different teams, each having their own tools and processes. But as our application and IT environments become...

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To the Cloud and Beyond―A Comprehensive Model for Enhanced NetOps and User Experience

Cloud computing has become wildly popular among IT organizations for a number of reasons, including its ability to enhance efficiency, security, agility, and cost-effectiveness. But now cloud features and principles have also become the building blocks of something even bigger and more all-encompassing: a unified IT operating model...

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Application Resource Management in Healthcare

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Four Ways Healthcare Providers Have Benefited from Intersight Workload OptimizerIT operations teams are like doctors. Doctors practice preventive medicine to help patients keep their health on track. When a patient’s health goes off track, the doctor minimizes symptoms through medication and rest, and they perform assessments to identify...

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Cisco Intersight Gets a New Look

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New User Interface Signals Milestone for Hybrid Cloud Operations PlatformCisco Intersight, Cisco’s hybrid cloud operations platform, passed a major milestone with the recent release of its new user interface (UI). The UI introduces Cisco’s new branding for its Cloud Networking and Computing software portfolio, brings Nexus Cloud (Cisco’s...

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Vacationing and IT Operations Part 3: Manage the Change

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You are looking forward to a day of island hopping. The cruise has been booked, swimming trunks and snorkels packed – you are ready to dive right in. Alas, on the day of the trip the weather gods decided to rain on your parade. Literally. Now what? You...

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Introducing Cisco Cloud Network Controller on Google Cloud Platform – Part 3

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Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series covered native cloud networking and firewall rules automation on GCP, and a read through is recommended for completeness. This final post of the series is about enabling external access for cloud resources. More specifically, it will focus on how...

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Introducing Cisco Cloud Network Controller on Google Cloud Platform – Part 2

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Part 1 of this blog series demonstrated how Cisco CNC can automate cloud networking within GCP independently of security policies. Part 2 goes over additional capabilities pertaining to contract-based routing and firewall rules automation by extending the same policy model.One of the reasons for decoupling routing and security...

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