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Cisco introduces new training and developer programs to accelerate adoption of intent-based networking | |
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 03:35:20 PM | |
Designed to be intuitive, Cisco's new network can recognize intent, mitigate threats through encryption, and learn over time LAS VEGAS, Cisco Live US — June 26, 2017 — Cisco today announced that its global ecosystem of customers, developers and partners are embracing the company’s ambitious vision for a new era of networking. Unveiled last week, Cisco’s new network can recognize intent, mitigate threats, and learn over time—representing one of the most significant breakthroughs in the history of enterprise networking. This new network is the result of years of research and development by Cisco to reinvent networking for an age where network engineers managing hundreds of devices today will be expected to manage one million by 2020. Companies that are managing their networks through traditional IT processes will not be able to scale in this new age. Cisco’s approach creates an intuitive system that constantly learns, adapts, and protects, to optimize network operations and defend against today’s evolving threat landscape. “Cisco is delivering a more intuitive system that automates the edge of the network and embeds machine learning and analytics at a foundational level,” said Scott Harrell, senior vice president of product management for enterprise networking. “Intent-based networking signifies a paradigm shift for our industry and a completely new era of networking. It’s exciting to witness our global ecosystem—spanning three million network engineers, 60,000 partners, and 450,000 developers—embrace the future of networking.” Already, 75 leading global enterprises and organizations are conducting early field trials with these next-generation networking solutions, including Jade University of Applied Sciences, NASA, Newcastle Hospitals, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., Scentsy, UZ Leuven and Wipro. Ecosystem embraces intent-based networking To drive adoption of its intent-based networking solutions, Cisco today announced new training and developer programs to 28,000 networking professionals at the company’s annual user conference, Cisco Live. Attendees will learn about the impact intent-based networking will have on their organizations and begin developing the skills needed in the new era of networking.
Customer quotes “IT can easily orchestrate global policy to secure, differentiated access for staff and students across multiple campuses with SD-Access’ network segmentation. The new network from Cisco makes our IT faster, more flexible, and more intuitive.” —Ulrich Hauptmann, head of IT, Jade University of Applied Sciences (Germany) “Catalyst 9000 creates immediate IT efficiency results with a straightforward and simple provisioning view across secure segments.” —Kevin Tompkins, network architect, Scentsy (United States) “As a leader in state-of-the art healthcare services we depend on our ‘always on’ network. The resiliency, scale and management simplicity of the Catalyst 9000 will allow our network to securely grow as quickly as our needs grow.” —Thomas Noppe, lead IT architect, UZ Leuven (Belgium) Partner quotes “The integration of AlgoSec with Cisco SD-Access will enable customers to extend Cisco's policy-based automation across their entire network security architecture using a business-driven approach for end-to-end security policy visibility and automation.” —Anner Kushnir, VP Technology at AlgoSec “Dimension Data is excited to see Cisco looking to reinvent the network. We have clients all over the world, and we’re confident that by having more intuitive networks we will profoundly change the services that we deliver to our clients as they look to accelerate their digital transformation. Dimension Data is committed to helping our clients navigate their transition to Cisco’s new network. We believe this will change the way we all view the network, and that it will further strengthen the long-standing partnership we have with Cisco.” — Rob Lopez, group executive, Networking, Dimension Data “The integration of Infoblox’s industry-leading IP Address Management platform with Cisco’s SD-Access provides network visibility and automation when transitioning from static networks to dynamic software-defined environments.” —Prakash Nagpal, VP product marketing, InfoBlox “In today’s complex, multi-technology, multi-platform environments, Tufin’s policy-centric orchestration solution combined with Cisco SD-Access will deliver a bird’s-eye policy view across the entire network for better control, agility and security.” —Reuven Harrison, CTO, Tufin “WWT is excited about Cisco’s new intent-based approach to networking. Security is top of mind for every customer and this approach will fundamentally redesign what the network can do to provide a more intelligent and more secure network platform. WWT is committed to helping customers realize the benefits this new approach offers and to support them through the journey of migrating to Cisco’s new network.” —Jim Kavanugh, CEO, World Wide Technology |