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         divide in 13 states across the nation. Inter-  responsibility as business leaders to step   clusive future for all Michiganders.” Moving
        net access at community sites is powered   up and mobilize the tools and innovations   into the future, the Michigan Moonshot will
        and  secured  by  Cisco’s  next-generation   at our disposal to help curtail the growing   continue to identify and lessen the impacts
        Wi-Fi  and  cloud  security  technology.  The   disparities in our communities caused by   of inequitable access to broadband inter-
        overall effort is supported through Cisco’s   the  digital  divide,”  said  Nick  Michaelides,   net with the help from our communities. If
        Country  Digital  Acceleration  (CDA)  pro-  senior vice president, U.S. Public Sector at   your  community,  private  or  philanthropic
        gram, which has over 900 active or com-  Cisco. “We are proud to launch this initia-  organization is  interested  in supporting
        pleted mass-scale digitization projects in   tive alongside Merit and Toyota to help en-  local  Community  Access  Network  sites,
        37  countries  around  the  world.  “It  is  our   sure equity of access, and to power an in-  please contact [email protected].


        Cisco Delivers New Platform Solutions to Drive Workload Agility across
        Public and Private Clouds


        Cisco  announced  new  software-delivered  solutions
        designed  to simplify IT  operations  across on-premise
        data  centers  and  multicloud  environments.  With  this
        milestone, Cisco is enabling greater business agility for
        its customers and empowering developers to deliver and
        scale innovative application experiences faster. Today’s
        business  environment  is  changing  faster  than  ever.
        Applications have become more distributed, workforces
        are more mobile, and the demands on our systems are
        greater  than  ever.  In  order  to  face  these  challenges,
        IT  teams  need  greater  insights  and  automation  to
        deliver  true  technology  agility.  Cisco  is  unveiling  agile
        IT  platforms  to  help  technology  groups  respond  to
        these  market  transitions.  “Complexity  can  paralyze   driving rapid and consistent application innovation. Intersight Workload
        our  teams.  Our  systems  can  no  longer  be  powerful,   Optimizer  significantly  simplifies  application  resources  management.
        but  brittle.  For  IT  to  be  as  agile  as  their  businesses   With  a  single  tool  that  provides  real-time,  full-stack  visibility  and
        require,  they  need  solutions  obsessed  with  simplicity,”   insights,  customers  can  balance  application  performance  and  cost.
        said  Todd  Nightingale,  SVP  and  GM,  Cisco  Enterprise   Intersight integration with AppDynamics provides IT teams with visibility
        Networking  and  Cloud.  “This  year,  technology  groups   to improve management across infrastructure and applications and stay
        around the globe were tested by unprecedented change.   ahead of problems that can impact user experience.
        This fundamental shift in how businesses, schools and   •  Cisco Nexus Dashboard: The Cisco Nexus Dashboard is a single insights
        governments operate requires IT teams to transform how   and automation  platform to operate  multicloud  data  center  networks
        they function. Today, Cisco is announcing IT platforms   spanning  on-premise,  virtual  edge  and  cloud  sites.  Bringing  together
        for multicloud operations that provide advanced insights   Cisco’s  orchestration,  insights  and  assurance  services  together  with
        and automation to help organizations transform faster.”   critical 3rd party services, Nexus Dashboard is a simple to use interface
        Cisco  is  bringing  a  never-before-experienced  level  of   to transform operations. The Nexus Dashboard drives the adoption of
        efficiency  to  cloud,  application,  SecOps,  NetOps  and   cloud-native application practices leading to a faster path to return on
        DevOps  teams.  As  a  cloud-neutral  vendor,  only  Cisco   infrastructure investment.
        allows  customers  to  maintain  choice  and  control   •  Cisco  Identity  Services  Engine  (ISE):  Cisco  ISE  now  simplifies  secure
        across their full IT stack with simplified and consistent   network access across all domains, extending the zero-trust workplace
        operations. Cisco provides unrivaled visibility from the   to  anywhere  and  on  anything.  With  the  latest  innovations,  customers
        application to the infrastructure, allowing customers to   can use ISE to intelligently identify a variety of IoT endpoints to enforce
        deliver the best application experiences. New solutions   consistent policies from the cloud to give teams the agility and flexibility
        include:                                          they need to secure their organizations.
        •  Cisco Intersight: Building on its foundation as a leading   “Cisco’s new solutions are part of an overall effort to transform how cus-
          systems  management  platform,  Cisco  Intersight’s   tomers connect people, secure their organization, and automate their pro-
          mission is to become the world’s simplest hybrid cloud   cesses,” said analyst Will Townsend, Networking Practice Head, Moor In-
          platform that connects private data centers to private   sights & Strategy. “It is designed to bring together platforms and portfolios
          clouds.  With  the  new  Intersight  Kubernetes  Service,   to help customers respond and adapt to business disruptions, accelerate
          infrastructure teams can now automate the lifecycle   cloud adoption and transform IT operating models.” The new Cisco Inter-
          management  of  Kubernetes  and  containerized   sight innovations and the Cisco Nexus Dashboard will be available by the
          applications across any environment. This represents   end of the calendar year. Cisco Intersight Kubernetes Service will be made
          a major leap forward in the container ecosystem by   available in the first half of 2021. Cisco ISE innovations are available now.

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