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Ashish Nanjiani, Director IT, Cisco

Digitizing Data Center Infrastructure using SDX ( Software defined everything)- Cisco IT Story

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Why Digitise?


Why Do We Need To Digitise?

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DIGITISATION IS NO LONGER

THE WANT….ITS THE NEED

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What is digitization?

Digitisation at Cisco IT


Cisco IT(GIS) Vision - SDx

A Vision where all IT service offerings are orchestrated in software at scale to meet service-level agreements and the demands of a dynamic business


Culture

IT ALL BEGINS WITH A

MINDSET


“The Quality of your results is determined by the quality of your mindset. Those who can

lead themselves, can lead any change”

Payal, CEO, Success is Withinwww.insightful-learning.com


Digitisation Requires Moving From Projects to Products

OS Upgrade

DB Upgrade

DC Migration

Network Upgrade

J2EE Upgrade

Technology

First

ProductManagers

Sales 2.0

Business Outcomes

Cloud Transformation

Product

Owner

OptimizePlatform

PROJECT/TECHNOLOGY THINKING PRODUCT THINKING


Digitisation Requires A Different Working Approach


Cisco IT ViewTe

chno

logy

Driv

en

Client

ClientEngagement

Vision, Strategy and Prioritization

Scrum Organization

Development & Operations

Stakeholders Clients

Chief Product Owner/Manager

Communications

Scrum Master

PO/ Lead

Scrum Master

PO/ Lead

Scrum Master

PO/ Lead

Scrum Master PO

Datacenter Compute, Storage, Network Security

Customer Success

Scrum Master

PO/ Lead

Database

Architects

Operations

Scrum Master

PO/ Lead

Middleware

Clie

nt D

riven


Cisco IT ViewTe

chno

logy

Driv

en

Client

ClientEngagement

Vision, Strategy and Prioritization

Scrum Organization

Development & Operations

Stakeholders Clients

Product Manager

Communications

Scrum Master PO/ Lead

Data Center Compute, Storage Network

Customer Success

Database

Architect

Operations

Clie

nt D

riven

Middleware Security


Digitisation Requires A Different Skill Set

Meet Business NeedInfrastructure Specialist Create I/O Solutions

Technical Breath

Business Acumen

Technical Depth


Cisco IT Example


Digitisation Requires Adoption of Agile & DevSecOps

Real Examples of Digitization


Infrastructure As Code

Faster Config. Mgmt. Tasks

Productivity Gains –Reduction in FTE hours spent

Secure Configuration

Consistent Configuration

Service Assurance alignment

Man hours saved

Better MTTR (systems will be reproducible)

28 days per quarter of FTE hours saved

Near zero configuration mismatch 100% Secure Configurations

80% faster configuration changes,

Productivity Cyber Hygiene Stable Environments

Assurance


Datacenter Dashboard

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ITM

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Collaboration SDx Business Outcomes

MaintenanceAutomate

(expressway upgrades)

Proactive

71% time reduction

96% time reduction

(password refresh)

30% issues identified

(before the customer)


Key Learnings

Executive Buy InTop down support

PlanningSTART WITH A WORKFORCE

PLAN: Agile team composition(DevOps),

Train/Immerse commitment, Education pathways by Persona

UrgencyINSTILL THE SENSE OF URGENCY: Business drivers, challengers, market disruptions

EducationTALK THE SAME LANGUAGE: drive foundational changes

consistently across org

Dev-CentricCI/CD PIPELINE DESIGNED

FOR THE DEVELOPERS: Balance Preferred

Frameworks with Tool Experimentation; create flexible underlying CI/CD

Analytics platform

1 2 3

4 5Foundations

SW ARCHITECTURE: Don’t start without one:

demand continual evolution 6

AccelerationMOVE THE NEEDLES:

Define the core KPIs you expect to improve; change as you become smarter

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Thank you • Ashish Nanjiani• Connect with me on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishnanjiani/

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