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Prasad RadhakrishnanDatacenter & Multicloud Lead Cisco Systems, ASEAN

Modernize the present, simplify the future

Simplify, Secure & Optimize Your IT Infrastructure

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Agility


KISS – Keep it Simple

Need to start with a strong foundation


Common Management Policy Across Data Centers

Pay-as-you-grow Economics with Resource Scaling On-Demand

Speed and Simplicity Cloud-Like On-Premises

Expand this Simplified Approachto More Use Cases

We Want to Simplify More

Power More Workloads


Hyperconverged Infrastructure Cloud like resource model

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Speed and Simplicity

Common platform across data center

Predictable, reliable performance

Pay as you grow

Pay-as-you-grow Economics with Resource Scaling On-

Demand

Streamlined Operations

Cloud like simplified management and

orchestration


Cisco HyperFlex : HCI Engineered on UCS

Complete Hyperconvergence

Unified Compute and Network Infrastructure

Next Gen Data Platform

Designed for Distributed Storage

Part of a Complete Data Center Strategy

Elastic and Secure at Enterprise Scale

CloudCenter

AppDynamics

CWOM

SecurityUCS

Intersight

Tetration

ACI

Cisco HX Data Platform

Data Services and Storage Optimization

Cisco HyperFlex

UCS – Completely integrated compute + network


• Remove infrastructure silo

• Simplified management – DC & Branch

• Single support model

• Modular and Scalable

• Business Continuity

HyperFlex – Simplify Infrastructure & OperationsInfrastructure Management


Choose the right “tool”


Simple Framework – Policy Based Automation

Application Centric Infrastructure

COMPUTE INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE

SCALE OUTHYPERCONVERGED

Edge CloudCore Data Center


HyperFlex - Delivering Business BenefitsHardware and Software Engineered Together

Complete Hyperconvergence with Integrated Network Fabric• Unified Network Infrastructure

• Guaranteed QoS with low latency

Cisco HyperFlex System

Independent Scaling

• Use diskless UCS rack/blade servers

• No additional HyperFlex licenses

Unified Architecture

• Connect to existing storage

• Ideal for tiered storage architecture , migration , backup etc

Enterprise Storage Features

• Snapshots , Dedupe , Compression

• No performance impact , no licenses


Unmatched Performance

https://research.esg-global.com/downloadfile/ciscoucs?shortCode=ESG-Technical-Valida

SQL as a workload

HyperFlex

Vendor A Vendor B


Broad Application Ecosystem

Hybrid/Multicloud

AI/ML Apps

Containers / Cloud Native Apps

Core Cloud

Edge

Cisco Container Platform

Cisco Cloud Center


The Business Benefits of HyperFlex

3000+ Customers

Customer References : https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/case-study-listing.html

VDIspeed2x

Improvement in ERP Response Time

50%More Performance30%

Downtime Reduction90%

Savings vs. 3-tier Infrastructure80% Management

time savings75%

Savings vs.Public Cloud Over 3 years

51%

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/case-study-listing.html


• Largest and busiest seaport with >40 million containers in 2017

• Needed to grow to handle the influx

Enabling Digital Transformation - Port of Shanghai

Port of Shangai

"We chose Cisco HyperFlex because of its ease of deployment and management capabilities. In

addition, we were concerned about the continuous growth of the port and the ever-increasing volume,

and needed a data center infrastructure with rapid scalability and superb performance."

Zhang Chuanjie, IT manager, Port of Shanghai

• Mission critical port automation software on Cisco HyperFlex

• Increased efficiency by 30% , saved 10 hours per load


Challenges in building a secure IT

Big and fast dataVirtualization

Expanded attack surface

Increase in east-west traffic

Hybrid cloudMulticloud orchestration

Workload portability

Zero trust model

Application architectureContinuous development

Micro Services

APIs


Need an End to End approach

Visibility“See Everything”

Segmentation“Reduce the Attack Surface”

Threat Protection“Stop the Breach”

Integrated

Network and application analytics

Automated Threat detection, blocking, and response

Firewalls and Application Segmentation

Stealthwatch + Tetration

AMP + Cisco Threat Response

Umbrella

ASA/NGFW

TrustSec + Tetration

NGFW/NGIPS

Stealthwatch + Tetration

AMP + Umbrella


HyperFlex Native Data Security

Secure Platform

Regulatory Compliance

Data-at-Rest Protection

Data-At-Rest Encryption thru Self-Encrypting Drives

Enterprise Key Management Support

Vulnerability Assessments and Hardening

Role-Based Access Control and Auditing

Certifications Starting with FIPS, Common Criteria*

Compliance for Data Privacy (HIPAA, PCI-DSS etc.)


Moving to an “AI World”

Automated Automatic


Today’s complexity requires systems that self-manage

Manual

Physical to virtual

Self-managingscale

1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 . . . . . . . 2025

Manualworkflow

Automated Real time

Scripting scale

Manual scale

Scripts,orchestration

Self-managing

Com

ple

xity

Automating processes → Automating decisions


SaaS Simplicity

ActionableIntelligence

Intersight

Intersight - Cloud Based Management

ConnectedTAC

Secure andCompliant

API Driven,DevOps Enabled

Policy BasedOrchestration

Telemetryand Analytics


Cisco Workload Optimization Manager

Before After

Workloads that manage themselves


Benefits of Optimization – Cisco IT

20GB+ per VMAverage resize

memory recovered

50% ReductionOf over-provisioned

memory

$1 Million+Cost avoidance

4,200 vCPUsRecovered

2,200+ new VMsEquivalent capacity

recovered

80% less contentionAmong Virtual Clusters

600+ VMs upsizedAutomatically since Feb 10,

with no downtime

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