Cisco Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business Getting Started Guide
At-A-Glance
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Cisco’s Cloud Strategy Overview
Many enterprise customers turn to cloud providers to help them increase cloud
capabilities for their businesses. They want the advantages of the cloud without the
associated infrastructure, management, and technical issues. Agility, security, and
performance are their primary concerns, as well as gaining the flexibility to deploy
their choice of workloads to the cloud. And the Internet of Everything (IoE) — bringing
together people, processes, data, and things to make networked connections more
relevant and valuable than ever before — is also creating an entirely new set of
requirements for globally distributed and highly secure clouds. This presents a huge
opportunity for Cisco® cloud providers.
capabilities for their businesses. They want the advantages of the cloud without the
associated infrastructure, management, and technical issues. Agility, security, and
performance are their primary concerns, as well as gaining the flexibility to deploy
their choice of workloads to the cloud. And the Internet of Everything (IoE) — bringing
together people, processes, data, and things to make networked connections more
relevant and valuable than ever before — is also creating an entirely new set of
requirements for globally distributed and highly secure clouds. This presents a huge
opportunity for Cisco® cloud providers.
Many cloud providers are embracing a new flexible, automated, secure, and
transformative (FAST) approach to their cloud infrastructures and services. A FAST
approach is designed to quickly deliver and monetize cloud services, continually align
with customers’ needs, automate core processes to reduce costs, and create new
revenue opportunities.
transformative (FAST) approach to their cloud infrastructures and services. A FAST
approach is designed to quickly deliver and monetize cloud services, continually align
with customers’ needs, automate core processes to reduce costs, and create new
revenue opportunities.
Cisco launched the concept of the World of Many Clouds™ and along with our partners
we are helping customers shape their own journeys to the cloud. Cisco believes that
each customer and situation requires a unique cloud solution: public, private, hybrid,
consuming services, or integrating multiple clouds together. Just as the Internet grew
out of the connection of multiple isolated networks, the Intercloud is also driving the
connection of multiple isolated clouds to a platform for the Internet of Everything while
increasing the choice of cloud consumption models for IT services.
we are helping customers shape their own journeys to the cloud. Cisco believes that
each customer and situation requires a unique cloud solution: public, private, hybrid,
consuming services, or integrating multiple clouds together. Just as the Internet grew
out of the connection of multiple isolated networks, the Intercloud is also driving the
connection of multiple isolated clouds to a platform for the Internet of Everything while
increasing the choice of cloud consumption models for IT services.
What’s needed is a comprehensive, consistent cloud strategy to offer perspective,
provide direction, and build confidence in your cloud decisions. Cisco’s cloud strategy
is designed to help you achieve profitability goals by maximizing the flexibility,
scalability, and interoperability that cloud environments offer. At the same time,
it enhances security and helps ensure a smooth path to the future through open
standards. As the proven industry leader, Cisco has grounded its cloud strategy in five
fundamental areas of focus that enable you to deliver and monetize cloud services that
meet your customers’ needs. Cisco is committed to a partner-centric cloud approach
of enabling cloud providers to deploy differentiated cloud services to meet enterprise
customer needs.
provide direction, and build confidence in your cloud decisions. Cisco’s cloud strategy
is designed to help you achieve profitability goals by maximizing the flexibility,
scalability, and interoperability that cloud environments offer. At the same time,
it enhances security and helps ensure a smooth path to the future through open
standards. As the proven industry leader, Cisco has grounded its cloud strategy in five
fundamental areas of focus that enable you to deliver and monetize cloud services that
meet your customers’ needs. Cisco is committed to a partner-centric cloud approach
of enabling cloud providers to deploy differentiated cloud services to meet enterprise
customer needs.
A Strategy for Cloud Success
The cloud represents a fundamental change in the way IT is consumed. Enterprise
customers turn to Cisco cloud providers to help them increase cloud capabilities for
their businesses.
customers turn to Cisco cloud providers to help them increase cloud capabilities for
their businesses.
A complex supply-and-demand ecosystem is emerging for the combination of public,
private, and hybrid cloud services. This ecosystem is largely shaped and driven by
the type of economics that IT organizations consuming cloud services are seeking to
achieve and the way that cloud providers are delivering those services. On the demand
side, cloud opens up a variety of new sourcing options to help customers achieve
their economic goals. On the supply side, this economic ecosystem provides a huge
opportunity for a new type of cloud providers to offer new sets of revenue-generating,
outsourced, cloud-delivered services, many of which were previously developed in-
house by customers (Figure 1).
private, and hybrid cloud services. This ecosystem is largely shaped and driven by
the type of economics that IT organizations consuming cloud services are seeking to
achieve and the way that cloud providers are delivering those services. On the demand
side, cloud opens up a variety of new sourcing options to help customers achieve
their economic goals. On the supply side, this economic ecosystem provides a huge
opportunity for a new type of cloud providers to offer new sets of revenue-generating,
outsourced, cloud-delivered services, many of which were previously developed in-
house by customers (Figure 1).
As this ecosystem continues to evolve, Cisco sees its role as an enabler in the
cloud. We partner with key cloud provider players to help them build out new cloud
services. We work collaboratively with them to make these capabilities available to end
customers in fast, secure, scalable delivery models that meet and exceed customer
SLA requirements and expectations.
cloud. We partner with key cloud provider players to help them build out new cloud
services. We work collaboratively with them to make these capabilities available to end
customers in fast, secure, scalable delivery models that meet and exceed customer
SLA requirements and expectations.
Figure 1. Economic Forces Shape the Evolution of the Cloud
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