1. Data Center Innovation Day

2. Moving the business forward with Digital Transformation
Jarut Nakaramaleerat
Data Centre Sales Manager , Cisco Systems
Oct 2018

3. Digital transformation is the new normal
Big and Fast Data
Virtualization
Expanded attack surface
Increase in east-west traffic
Hybrid Cloud
Orchestration and management
Workload portability
Zero trust model
Application Modernization
Continuous development | Micro Services | APIs
Digital transformation is disrupting business in every industry. Smart organizations are applying technology to build new business models, processes, software, and systems that bring connectivity and visibility into every aspect of their organization.
Driving digital transformation in a company is not easy. Line of business leaders are looking to transform their business processes and achieve tangible business outcomes. To do this, they need to collaborate closely with IT leaders to develop the environment, resources, and technology solutions required for digital business
For many enterprise this re-evaluation will begin with an in-depth examination of their data centers, which are among their most strategic technology assets. This is the reason that the data center has been arguably the most dynamic hotspot for innovation and activity within the IT ecosystem.
The mandate is simple but audacious: today’s data centers have to evolve to into the engines of the digital business.

4. IT operational complexity
Consumer simplicity
Technology has changed how we shop, bank, and plan vacations all on our phones or laptops.
IT operational complexity
Data Centers have to deliver with no room for error or downtime to support these innovations.
In our new digital world, applications are the primary interface between businesses and their customers. And we know that new technologies like AI, ML, and IoT are changing the way centers of data are being placed. But as digital interactions become more convenient for us as consumers, they are getting more complex for the IT professionals that have to make it all work. Think about how we shop, how we bank, how we plan our vacations– it’s unbelievable what we can do from a phone or a laptop, but behind the scenes, it’s exponentially complex to make it all a reality.

5. Meeting the demands of business
Time is money
Zero downtime
Meeting the demands of business
In today’s world, the data center has to deliver. There is no room for error or downtime. And  in terms of managing an IT environment, time is money. Companies are losing money every time they can’t bring a new application to market fast enough or they experience downtime. Think about how fast you will change to a competitor if their app doesn’t work or is slow to open on your iPhone. Net – net… IT needs to keep up with the pace of the business.

6. The future of IT could be simpler
"By 2022, nearly 40% of operational processes will be self-healing and self-learning – minimizing the need for human intervention or adjustments."
IDC 3rd Platform Digital Transformation Prediction
self-explanatory
But as technology evolves so do possibilities, leveraging machine learning, artificial intelligence and advanced analytics enable you to predict the impact of changes and proactively remediate anomalies.

7. It’s been an evolutionary journey
All industry first systems innovations
Cisco ACI
Fully integrated SDN
Application Policy automation
Cisco Tetration
ML powered analytics
Security policy automation
Cisco NAE
ML powered state awareness
Continuous policy compliance
2009
2018
Cisco UCS
Stateless computing
Resource policy automation
Cisco UCS Director
Full lifecycle management
3rd party policy orchestration
Cisco Intersight
AI powered ITOM
Cloud-based policy orchestration
The pioneering steps we took in 2009 started with our Unified Computing System’s policy-based management framework that set in motion new possibilities like plug-and-play scaling of compute and storage with our ,Cisco Intersight, our cloud-based SaaS systems lifecycle management platform, and an evolutionary path forward to Intent-Based Networking.
These advancements are the true pinnacle of technological simplicity created a fully autonomous self-driving, self-healing, and self-protecting infrastructure that continuously keeps your environment in it’s most optimal desired state.

8. Groundbreaking Service Delivery
The future of computing needs to be easier: so IT admins can focus on strategic work, so developers can focus on innovation.
That requires:
State of art mgmt – simple, automated, intelligent, secure
Cloud-like scalability
Software-defined flexibility: each component can be provisioned, operated, and managed through an application programming interface (API).
At the base, you need HW and systems that can offer the best performance from Day 0: Well-tuned for core and emerging applications

9. Unlimited ITOM capability with Cloud SaaS
UCS Capabilities Today
Global Resource Pooling and Policy Management
Policy-Based Automation
Unified Element Management
Cisco Intersight
Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Orchestration
Third Party Integrations: Infrastructure and Toolchains
Traditional Delivery Model
On-prem software and
HW-embedded tools
SaaS Model
Cisco-Hosted Cloud
Customer-Hosted Cloud
Partner-Hosted Cloud
SaaS Consumption Model
Free customers from care and feeding of management tools and eliminate upgrade dependencies
Continuous Feature Integration
Rapid development, delivery and customer feedback
Seamless Extensibility
Simplify management across technologies and geography
At Cisco we have realized that we can harness the power of the cloud to manage infrastructure. We can start using machine learning and analytics to take the pressure off IT. We then analyze the data we collect for the systems and combine the insights with automation to make operations far easier. It’s time to do these things and Cisco Intersight is where we begin.
We are addressing three significant challenges with Cisco Intersight. Enterprises are implementing distributed applications and distributed infrastructure to support new business services, such as IoT and mobility. The speed and complexity of this rapid change is becoming overwhelming for existing staff to support operations and ensure the performance, reliability and security of the applications and infrastructure.
Existing management tools required to support Cisco UCS and HyperFlex as well as existing on premise management tools from other systems vendors are inadequate. They just add to the complexity. As an industry, we still ask customers to build and maintain stacks of software, hardware and appliances to manage their estate. We still ask customers to manage and optimize the environment in day-today operations; to constantly be at the controls making adjustments and scanning ahead to stay out of trouble.

10. We’ve set the stage for AI Operations
Cisco
Intersight
Intuitive
Simplicity
Agility
Efficiency
Scale
Cisco UCS
Director
Adaptive
Traditional
Tools
Cisco UCS
Inflection Point
Cloud Managed Infrastructure
ML / AI for IT Ops
Automated
Manual
Semi-Automated
We also plan to capitalize on a second trend that will drive the next phase of the operational evolution - the use of analytics and machine learning (ML). The use of ML is becoming more pervasive in the data center and in new technology platforms, such as automobiles.
Vehicle manufacturers are adopting Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), such as blind spot monitor, collision warning, etc. These capabilities enhance driver activities, so they are safer and easier.
Cisco’s vision is to deliver analytics and machine learning (ML) assisted operations management. This will allow us to automate, augment and continuously enhance daily operations, so they are more efficient and secure. Examples of this new functionality include predictive analytics, proactive guidance, native orchestration, etc. These new functions would provide a new intelligent automation and operational efficiencies.
Past
Future

11. Move fast without breaking things
Move fast but don’t break things
A large company once said, “move fast and break things”. While this may have been true for developing new features for highly distributed applications. The same is not true for managing the infrastructure that supports them. Moving fast and not breaking things is crucial to ensuring a business operates with high availability for a new “always on” world.

12. Intent-Based Networking is the future
Cisco Tetration
Network Assurance Engine
Application-Centric Infrastructure
Activation
Orchestrate policies and configure systems
Translation
Capture intent, translate to policy, and check integrity
Assurance
Continuous verification, insights and visibility, and corrective actions
Cisco Data Center
Intent-Based
Networking
Some of you may have heard of Intend Based Networking. This is the evolution of automation moving beyond initial provisioning. So what does that mean…real-time analytics enable you to capture business intent and then translate into IT policies, automation activates those policies across the entire data center and continuously validates the original intent stays in it’s desired state.
When we started on this journey of ACI about 4 years ago, we focused on delivering application agility in the data center. We built a policy driven automation framework, our flagship software-defined storage solution, Application-Centric Infrastructure, when combined with our new Network Assurance Engine, turns on the power of intent-based networking. Any changes can be simulated and when pushed out, and immediately validated whether the change was successful and functioning as intended.

13. Network policy that goes where you go
Public Cloud A
ACI Anywhere
ACI Anywhere
ACI Anywhere
ACI vPOD
Public Cloud B
Bare Metal Cloud B
Data Center A
Edge Site A
ACI Site A
Data Center B
ACI Remote Leaf
ACI Site B
ACI Multi-Site Appliance
We are now extending these capabilities to multiple data centers, remote edge sites, and any public, private or bare metal cloud environment…all managed under a single policy automation framework. This enables a consistent posture across any on-prem and public cloud footprint, at any scale, with deep visibility and analytics into their infrastructure.. No matter where the workload is..
Consistent Network and Policy across clouds
Seamless Workload Migration
Single Point of Orchestration
Secure Automated Connectivity

14. It’s all about the applications
After reaching this point, to truly understand “business intent”, we moved up the stack to create new business insights only understood by working on “the full stack”. Our products have been application centric for sometime and now raised the bar from what you should expect from your infrastructure and how you can deliver new insights to your business.

15. Workload that manage themselves
Workload Optimization Manager
Dynamic Workload Optimization
Automatically allocate resources to the workloads that need them the most,
Increase infrastructure efficiency
Automatically maximize workload density and resource utilization, minimizing
Workload Management
Automatically place, size, and move workloads while always maintaining
Cisco Workload Optimization Manager drives continuous health in distributed data center environments, whether on-premises or in a public cloud. The real‑time decision engine provides automatable actions that adjust infrastructure resources at every layer of the stack to ensure the performance of your applications. It automates workload placement, scaling, and capacity to assure performance while maximizing efficiency.
Workload Optimization Manager will track, report, and view trends for compute, storage and database consumption metrics (CPU, memory, IOPs, latency, and Database Transaction Unit (DTU)) across regions and zones. It can project actual cost of workloads by projecting compute, licensing (OS), IP address, and storage costs.

16. Keeping up with the pace of business
Cisco Cloud Center
Putting you in control of your multicloud
Agile workload deployments
Increased control, avoid cloud lock-in
IT as a strategic business enabler
Workload performance monitoring
Real time visibility into app performance
Optimized end user experience
Cisco CloudCenter securely deploys and manages applications in multiple data center, private cloud, and public cloud environment. With CloudCenter you can automate workload deployment and increase new feature velocity. Plus you can consistently enforce multicloud governance and optimize consumption to reduce cloud costs.
The AppDynamics platform enables you to monitor and manage your entire application-delivery ecosystem, from the mobile app or browser client request through your network, backend databases and application servers and more. It gives you a single view across your application landscape, letting you quickly navigate from the global perspective of your distributed application right down to the call graphs or exception reports generated on individual hosts. 
AppDynamics

17. What to expect

18. How automation can help you
Increased agility
Lower operating costs
Faster incident response
How automation can help you
Closing the skills gap
Minimize operational risk
Optimal app performance
Our value to you is operational simplicity and the ability to help you transform your business. Our goals are to reduce total cost of ownership for our customers and create operational efficiencies where others cannot. With no technology religion, we look holistically at where complexity can be removed and customer value can be increased.

19. It’s Data Center automation that delivers
Faster network provisioning
99.7% faster VM provisioning
3-days
58%
10-minutes
Cisco ACI
Cisco UCS
Reduced time
VM provisioning time
IDC: Cisco IT
Public: San Joaquin County
Recovered 4200 vCPUs and 52TB of memory
ADM & white list security adoption
$35M
Here are a few metrics for results that customers can expect. these metrics are validated from 3rd party analysis , internal Cisco IT successes, and external public customer case studies.
Cisco WOM
Cisco Tetration & ACI
Within one night
$Target
Cisco on Cisco IT
Cisco on Cisco IT

20. The Cisco difference Simplification Transformational Expert Services
Breaking down siloes. No technology religion.
The Cisco difference
Transformational
Bridging the gap between business and IT
Expert Services
Accelerating your Data Center transformation
Cisco is applying our industry-leading vision and decades of innovation successes to empower customers in every stage of their journey toward becoming digital businesses and to deliver exceptional customer experiences that critical for success in today’s hyper-connected, hyper-scale, and on-demand business world
Through an open architecture approach, we can take advantage of the most powerful technology ecosystem in existence to support a broad range of business use cases and customer requirements.
With global expertise, unparalleled innovation, and service quality, Cisco is the one company that offers both a comprehensive vision and a step-by-step process for the multicloud data center that is powered by intent, informed by context, and delivered through intuition.