Now greater than ever, Cisco and Microsoft–collectively–are imagining the artwork of attainable and aligning for influence. Our partnership is pushed by a singular deal with offering our mutual prospects with innovation and capabilities aligned to assist them obtain even increased ranges of success.
The energy of our partnership was on full show at this 12 months’s Microsoft Ignite convention. If you missed it, let me share some convention nuggets from the areas of collaboration, networking, safety, and delivering distinctive software experiences.
Collaborate like by no means earlier than
Based on our analysis, 75 % of consumers use a couple of video conferencing platform to get their work finished. This probably contains each Cisco Webex and Microsoft Teams. However, there was beforehand little to no integration between the 2 merchandise. For occasion, for those who have been in a convention room with an funding in Cisco Webex units, your solely possibility was to make use of Cisco Webex for video conferencing. The identical state of affairs utilized to Microsoft Teams.
However, seeing the world by a customer-first lens–particularly given the emergence of hybrid work because the norm–the simplest conferences could properly embody individuals utilizing totally different video conferencing platforms. Therefore, Cisco and Microsoft got here collectively and requested, “How do we best make the meeting experience seamless and flawless, realizing that the status quo no longer involves customers using one technology in one office to conduct their meetings?”
The ensuing answer now contains Microsoft Teams operating natively on their Webex units, as described within the associated information launch. To study extra, watch the Microsoft Ignite on-demand session, Microsoft Teams to Cisco assembly room units.
Build, join, and function clever multi-cloud networks with Azure
Just as hybrid work belongs in our prospects’ new regular, so does operating multi-cloud environments. For many Cisco prospects, this contains connecting to Microsoft Azure. With the heightened precedence of repeatedly delivering distinctive person experiences, our prospects are turning to Cisco SD-WAN as an integral a part of their enterprise WAN technique. Therefore, Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for Multi-Cloud has been built-in with Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN) to assist guarantee distinctive connectivity for Azure prospects. This built-in answer helps to:
- Seamlessly instantiate SD-WAN endpoints into Azure vWAN utilizing automation and APIs
- Extend SD-WAN insurance policies and controls to workload Azure Virtual Networks (VNets)
- Provide a extremely scalable answer for multi-regional workloads
This answer additionally provides safe connectivity, securing visitors to and from Azure with encrypted tunnels and integrating transparently with Azure Secured VHUB and Firewall Manager SASE.
You can study extra about this integration by listening to the Microsoft Ignite on-demand presentation, Ask the Experts: Build, Connect & Operate Intelligent Multi-Cloud Networks.
Make safe much more safe
Of course, safety is on all our prospects’ minds. In response, Cisco and Microsoft are partnering in a number of areas–for instance, in establishing and increasing proactive protection with cloud-native safety controls, cloud firewalls, and nil belief micro-segmentation.
To study extra, watch the Microsoft Ignite on-demand presentation, Zero Trust Micro-segmentation & Proactive Cyber Defense for Cloud Workloads and Environments. This presentation explains tips on how to construct and implement a constant segmentation and malware protection–leveraging enforcement factors throughout hosts, firewalls, and cloud safety controls–to guard a dynamic and complicated software infrastructure utilizing Cisco and Azure options.
Focus on delivering distinctive software experiences
We know that IT departments are challenged to repeatedly ship distinctive software experiences, given the complicated stack of software, infrastructure, community, safety, and third-party companies that should all work collectively seamlessly.
Unfortunately, when there are points, finger pointing in struggle rooms making an attempt to find the perpetrator may be very time consuming and a extremely inefficient use of restricted IT assets. Meanwhile, latencies of mere seconds past expectations can lose prospects for good.
To tackle this problem, Cisco provides its full suite of functions on Azure–together with AppDynamics, ThousandEyes, and Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO)–to supply visibility into the whole stack, enabling IT groups to determine and remediate points shortly. Learn extra about how this answer may provide help to ship distinctive software experiences by watching the Microsoft Ignite on-demand session, Cisco AppDynamics, ThousandEyes, and IWO Integration Use Case.
Cisco and Microsoft–collectively–dedicated to co-innovation
Cisco and Microsoft are dedicated to co-innovation and partnership to assist our mutual prospects achieve success. In the Microsoft Ignite on-demand session, Committed to Co-innovation. Cisco + Microsoft, Jonathan Davidson, Cisco EVP of Enterprise Networking and Cloud, discusses what this implies because it pertains to Microsoft Azure. Not solely will Jonathan share joint innovation with Microsoft, however he additionally shares some ensuing success tales.
Now greater than ever, we’re listening and responding to our prospects with unequalled innovation. We’re combining our positions of market management to align for influence, serving to our mutual prospects to repeatedly ship distinctive and safe person experiences.
To study extra about our joint options,
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