シスコ、フルスタック可視化ビジョンを推進

シスコは本日、自動化を簡素化し、ITプロフェッショナルに洞察を提供するために、インテントベースのネットワーキングポートフォリオを更新しました。Cisco today updated its intent-based networking portfolio to simplify automation and provide insights for IT professionals. New vehicles for automation have been added to Cisco’s User-Defined Networks and its SD-WAN software stack, which also gained the ability to migrate from SD-WAN to secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. The enhancements delivered via Cisco User-Defined Networks allow IT staff to provide users the ability to activate and control a wireless network partition through the Cisco DNA Center. The vendor said it is also learning more from previously unmonitored IoT devices with its artificial intelligence (AI) and group-based policy analytics engine in the DNA Center. The former helps network professionals identify and categorize previously unknown endpoints, while the latter can analyze traffic flows between those groups of endpoints to design policies at scale, according to Cisco. DNA Center acts as a dashboard for Cisco’s SDN architecture for campus deployments, but it hasn’t gone smoothly. Multiple customers have shared frustrations about lost connections, bugs, and other errors. “We’ve had some quality concerns early days with DNA Center and it’s something that’s incredibly top of mind for us, especially looking at this platform strategy that we have ahead of us and this need for automation,” Todd Nightingale, SVP and GM of enterprise networking and cloud at Cisco, said during this week’s Cisco Live. “It’s why we are investing so much right now and ensuring that we close the gaps around not just quality and registered bugs, but the usability of that system so that people can deploy it more easily.” Cisco is also working to “get the right telemetry” so it can “start to sense problems before they happen,” he added.  DNA Spaces, an offshoot of that platform designed for indoor location services, also gained historical analysis tools to help businesses meet social distancing guidelines and a new IoT offering for indoor WiFi 6 access points to facilitate activation, configuration, and management across a fleet of devices. The new features on DNA Center and DNA Spaces will be available this summer, according to Cisco.  Critical infrastructure, businesses, and government agencies are demanding more agility from their technology vendors as they adapt to a world that has changed as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, Nightingale said. “We realize this shift. We have to realize that the metric by which IT will be measured is probably going to shift toward agility and the ability to react seamlessly, change and adapt our infrastructure to new needs and new architectures.” Providing IT professionals with automation tools and insights into what’s happening on their networks, cloud, and data center infrastructures factors heavily into that push from Cisco, he explained. “I think that these things can add up to a next generation of agility. … The way people work has changed and sometimes that’s subtle, but insights can really show us what’s happening” as employees shift from applications delivered by data centers to software-as-a-service (SaaS)offerings. Cisco’s recent acquisition of ThousandEyes, a multi-cloud network monitoring vendor, ties into that vision, Nightingale said.  Customers tell Cisco that they want developers, engineers, and technicians to have full stack visibility across the same data sets from their applications down to the infrastructure layer, said Liz Centoni, SVP of emerging technologies and incubation at Cisco. “We believe that abstracting that complexity of the infrastructure, providing the automation and providing the visibility, the insights, and actions” for a hybrid environment is something that Cisco has assembled and is now delivering to the market, she said.