Cisco Cloud Infrastructure

Avinash Shukla (CCIE No. 28418), Senior Leader in Cisco's US Customer Experience (CX) Organization, has 14 years of experience in Cisco CX roles spanning Professional and Technical Services, and extensive expertise in collaboration and data center technologies. He now leads a team of engineers working on Cisco Data Center Technology (Cisco Unified Computing Systems, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Virtualization, and data center automation). He holds a B.Tech in ECE from IIIT, Hyderabad and has won numerous Cisco awards for customer focus, and has delivered many technical trainings for Cisco partners and customers.

Manage, operate, and integrate existing infrastructure in hybrid and multicloud environments   Hybrid cloud adoption is accelerating, as companies discover that hybrid cloud architectures can reduce hosting costs, improve agility, promote scalability, accelerate deployment, and enhance security. Cisco Cloud Infrastructure is the definitive reference for every IT professional, IT manager, and CIO who needs to understand, implement, or manage Cisco hybrid cloud solutions for networking, compute, storage, applications, or security.   Bringing together crucial information, a team of leading Cisco architects present end-to-end insights for seamlessly integrating management and operation of public cloud resources and on-premises deployments. The authors describe each Cisco solution and offering in detail, from both technical and business viewpoints. They review each leading deployment option, reviewing key concepts, best practices, guidelines, tradeoffs, design do's and don'ts, case studies, and more.   Cisco Cloud Infrastructure contains many configuration examples--including topologies, configuration, and verification--each based on actual Cisco Cloud deployments, and specifically designed to help you drive value faster.   Use Cisco data center orchestration software to automate tasks and operations, and enable an agile DevOps approach to continual improvementGain big-picture insights and actionable drill-down data from the Cisco API-driven monitoring and assurance solutionsOptimize workloads across clouds, on-premises data centers, labs, and co-location facilities for scale, performance, agility, and valueUse AppDynamics enterprise-grade performance cloud monitoring and analytics tools to identify issues and overcome growth challengesEfficiently manage modern workloads with Intersight Workload Optimization Manager, Cisco Container Platform, and Intersight Kubernetes Service (IKS)Manage interdependencies between networks, compute, storage, application, and security in hybrid cloud environmentsTake advantage of Cisco Cloud Webex to improve collaboration in hybrid/multicloud environmentsIntegrate operational hardware with the Internet of Things (IoT) to gain deeper insight for greater efficiencyProtect users, data, and applications everywhere with Cloudlock, Umbrella, Cloud Analytics, Duo, and API-based integrations

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