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“IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY,
BUSINESS INSIGHTS
GATHERED FROM DATA
RATHER THAN GUT INSTINCTS
ARE THE KEY COMPETITIVE
DIFFERENTIATOR FOR UAE
ORGANISATIONS, ALLOWING
THEM TO STAY AHEAD OF
THE INNOVATION CURVE
AND DRIVE NEW BUSINESS
MODELS…”
At a glance…
Cisco unveils “Digital
Network Architecture” for
digital businesses
New Digitisation is
transforming businesses
in every industry, opening
up a $2.1 trillion global
market opportunity by
2019, according to IDC.
The path to digitisation
requires a digital network
that evolves beyond just
connectivity.
Cisco recently unveiled its Digital Network Architecture (DNA),
a software-driven architecture for digital business. Cisco DNA
complements Cisco’s data centre based Application Centric
Infrastructure (ACI) technology by extending the policy driven
approach and software strategy throughout the entire network:
from campus to branch, wired to wireless, core to edge. Cisco DNA is
delivered within the Cisco ONE Software family.
new levels of customer insights,” added Savitha
Bhaskar.
Worldwide, over half (52%) of business leaders
are experiencing “digital disruption”, or digital
transformation of their industries, and 66% are
planning to invest in IT infrastructure and digital
skills, according to a recent survey by IT solutions
provider EMC.
Demonstrating the demand, 80% of global CIOs
agree that advanced IT infrastructure reduces
risk and complexity, and supports future growth,
according to EMC.
As a result, Condo Protego is seeing strong
demand for EMC’s line of all-flash storage, such as
EMC Unity.
“All-flash storage solutions are very different
from most current Middle East IT environments,
requiring channel partners to play a key
role in guiding organisations in their digital
transformation strategies, modern data center
needs, and up-skilling staff,” concluded Savitha
Bhaskar.
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“In the IoT era, enterprises are addressing how to move to digitisation
with tremendous innovation in networking, including software
defined networking (SDN), network function virtualisation (NFV),
open API’s, cloud management, analytics and more. Though these
innovations offer great promise to improve operational efficiency
and enable digital applications, adoption has been slow due to the
difficulty in consuming these many new technologies. The market
needs a solution that integrates the critical innovations in networking
software into an architecture that can achieve these promises in an
integrated and easy to consume manner. Cisco DNA does just that,”
said Mike Weston, Vice President, Cisco Middle East.
Cisco recently announced automation, virtualisation and cloud
management capabilities in support of the DNA architecture,
including APIC-Enterprise Module (APIC EM) Platform and
Automation Services, Evolved IOS-XE and Enterprise NFV and
CMX Cloud.
To support Cisco customers and partners on this network
transformation journey, the Learning at Cisco and Cisco DevNet
developer programmes are committed to educating and enabling
networking professionals transition to a software-driven networking
model. Network Programmability Specialist Certification is available
and is built on top of industry award winning CCIE and CCNP
programmes. As developers and engineers build on DNA, Cisco is
making available training, hands on exercises and certifications.
www.intelligentcio.com