Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.3.2 Prospecto
Solution Overview
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Cisco Application Stack Accelerator Pack
Challenges
As cloud and virtualization reach maturity and cloud-based service delivery continues to expand beyond
infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) models, organizations continue to issue mandates to reduce costs while
increasing IT and staff efficiency. In addition, the desire to advance from IT productivity to business productivity
through technological innovation is prompting organizations to expand cloud-based service delivery to advanced
use cases. With one-year product release cycles, cloud management platforms are lagging behind in supporting
these advanced use cases with evaluation and release of solutions into production.
Business Benefits of Cisco Cloud Accelerators
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cloud accelerators solve this problem with predefined content cartridges that support these advanced use
cases immediately upon installation. Cisco cloud accelerators follow the API strategy and vision of Cisco
Intelligent Automation for Cloud (IAC) and snap directly into the Cisco IAC self-service portal. Cloud accelerators
speed up evaluation and release to production for these advanced use cases while allowing end users to
consume their functions through the self-service portal of Cisco IAC.
Cisco Application Stack Accelerator Pack Solution
The Cisco Application Stack Accelerator Pack delivers development and operations (DevOps) or enterprise
platform-as-a-service (PaaS) functions to Cisco IAC, allowing end users to order complete application or platform
stacks from the Cisco IAC self-service portal. Using standards and automation, the accelerator stack delivers an
application blueprint from which end users can order fully configured, multitiered cloud applications.
The creation of a blueprint starts from the Stack Blueprint Management page (Figure 1) in the Cisco IAC stack
blueprint designer. From Cisco IAC, design wizards provide guidance through the creation, review, and publication
processes. The result is a blueprint that follows a process similar to software development. From the blueprint
management page, developers can create, test, revise, review, get approval for, and publish their designs
(Figure 2).
Figure 1. Cisco IAC Blueprint Stack Management Page