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Cisco-Managed Solutions

1) Cisco Meraki 2) Cisco Intersight 3) Cisco UCS and Hyperflex

Building Blocks for Data Center Success

1) Cisco Unified fabric 2) Unified Computing 3) Unified Management

Hybrid and Public Cloud Sectors

1) Cisco's Cloud Advisory Services 2) Cloud Connect 3) Cloud Protect 4) Cloud Consume

Benefits of the Unified Data Center

1) Data center teams gain control 2) Deliver more value, faster, to all lines of business 3) Sophisticated capabilities made simple 4) Increased revenue opportunity in a competitive market

Features of Cisco Data Center

1) Enhanced application performance 2) Seamless multicloud mobility 3) Pervasive security

Private Cloud Solutions

1) On-demand infrastructure 2) Automation and agility 3) Intent-based data center

Three Key Engines of DNA Center

1) Policy Control provided by the Identity Service Engine (ISE) 2) Automation provided by Network Control Platform (NCP) 3) Analytics provided by the Network Data Platform (NDP) Policy, Automation, and Analytics

Cisco Unified Management Solutions

1) Self-service portal and catalog for on-demand provisioning of IT, applications, and business services b) Built-in tools to craft application stacks into repeatable services-accelerating time to revenue for new applications c) Unified management of computing, network, storage, and virtualization components to deliver infrastructure within minutes

QUIZ QUESTION: In which year was Cisco Incorporated?

1984

Offer Structure Template

A business view architectural model that helps articular new offers such as solution bundles

Router

A networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Perform traffic directing functions on the internet. Data packets are forwarded from one router to another until it reaches its destination

What is Cisco UCS?

A server product line comprised of computing hardware, virtualization support, switching fabric, and management support

Cisco DNA

A vision of how a network infrastructure is designed and implemented to fulfill the needs of modern, digitized environments. It is constantly learning, adapting, and protecting

Cisco's Strategic Priorities

Accelerating the company's pace of innovation, increasing the value of the network, and delivering technology the way customers want to consume it.

Services

Advisory Implementation Training Optimization Managed Technical

QUIZ QUESTION: Cisco's Networking product Lines include... a) Routers b) Switches c) Networking Management Software d) Internet Devices e) All of the above

All of the above

What did Cisco create?

An internet working router--> one of the most successful product launches in history. This was the company's primary product.

BOST framework

Architecture framework that is a reference model for enterprise architecture. BOST stands for Business, Operations, Systems, and Technology

BOST questions

B: What businesses are we enabling? O: What capabilities are needed to support the business? S: What applications and tools will we need? T: What technology will we use to enable the applications and tools?

Enterprise Architecture Framework

Business, operation, system, and technology views

How are Cisco's products, solutions, and services organized?

By Product Types Solution Types Service Types Customer Segments Architectures Product Specializations

Solutions

Cloud Collaboration Data Center Internet of Things Mobility Network Architecture--Cisco DNA Security Service Provider

SD WAN Solution

Cloud-delivered overlay WAN architecture Facilitates digital and cloud transformation for enterprises Reduces WAN costs and time to deploy new services

Top three learning capabilities

Collect Analyze Optimize

Unified Computing

Combines industry-standard, x86-architecture servers with networking and storage access into a single unified system.

Cisco's Technology Vision

Commitment to digitization, workplace transformation, and investment protection.

Enterprise Architecture

Conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of an organization Tries to determine how an organization can most effectively achieve its current and future objectives. Goal is to create a unified IT department with standardized software

Cloud Consume

Deploy and monitor containers and applications across multicloud environments

What does an architectural approach look at to help solve business problems?

End-to-end value chain that an enterprise is aiming to optimize. Brings positive business and financial outcomes that exceed a customer's technology investments.

Four Architectures of Cisco

Enterprise and DNA Security Data Center and Cloud Collaboration

Cloud Connect

Extends private networks, includes data centers, remote users, and branches, to a single or multiple public-cloud environments

Requirements for Enterprise Network Architectures in the Digital Age

Faster Innovation Reduced complexity and cost Compliance and Technology Cloud-Enablement

What other areas does Cisco control?

Fibre-optic networking and wireless networking

Four Cisco Routes to Market

Field Sales Virtual Sales Digital Touch Partners

Training for IT architecture roles

Formal courses, mentoring programs, and certification for IT architecture roles. Must pass mandatory BOST framework introductory training.

Benefits of unified computing (UCS)

Increased productivity Reduces total cost of ownership Enables scalability into the data center Unified Network Fabric Centralized Infrastructure Management Application-Centric Design

Benefits of Intent-Based Networking

Insights and Visibility Continuous Verification

What happened in 1993 that caused Cisco to expand?

It acquired a LAN switching company, which was the start of hundreds of acquisitions, making Cisco a one-stop shopping network

How does the cloud help with digitization?

It allows the deployment of new services without lengthy and costly investments in server or networking infrastructure. Accelerates application delivery by using existing software stacks and drawing additional data from a multitude of information sources. Used to collect rapid feedback from customers at a large scale through digitization and engages in shortened improvement cycles to adapt businesses to services according to customer's feedback

What does a router do

It analyzes data being sent across the network and chooses the best route for data to travel, and then sends the data in that direction

What does the intent-based data center do?

It constantly monitors the network, user behavior, and policy compliance. It looks for trends, changes, and anomalies wherever the workload resides.

DNA Center and Security

It is a command and control center. Security is embedded into the networking Network can see and block all threats 360 degree visibility, supports continuous learning

How does Cisco's Data Center protect?

It uses multi-layer apps, data, user security, threat intelligence collection, and analytics

Large Enterprises and Public Sector

Large enterprises and global customers, government agencies, state and local governments, education, and healthcare organizations. Cloud collaboration Data Center Internet of Things mobility network Architecture Cisco DNA security

Customer Segments:

Large enterprises and public sector, service providers, and small and midsized businesses

Who founded Cisco?

Len Bosack and Sandra Lerner in 1984

Cisco Intersight

Management environment across their data centers, private clouds, and public cloud deployments. Consistent management and policy enforcement across bare metal server environments

Five pillars of the cloud

Network Compute Storage Application Security

Products

Networking Wireless and Mobility Security Collaboration Data Center Analytics Video Internet of Things Software

DNA Center

New, centralized management dashboard which is used to translate business goals (intent) into network policy.

Cisco's Unified Data Center

Offers a cost-efficient design and a unified architecture that is supported by Cisco's broad partner ecosystem. Improve responsiveness and innovation, increase budget efficiency, and simplify IT operations

Cisco Unified Management

Optimize resource performance and capacity planning across converged infrastructure (physical and virtual) Isolate virtual application workloads at the virtual layer with single workflow automation

Four Categories for What Cisco Sells

Products, Solutions, services, and Architectures

Small and Midsize Businesses

Products, services, and solutions that are matched to the diverse business needs of these customers Routers and Switches Wireless and Security Voice and Conferencing

Requirements of digitized business procedures

Rapid service deployments

Top Three Adapting Capabilities

Remediate Scale Deliver

Cisco's Product Line

Routers Switches Remote Access Devices Protocol translators Internet service devices Networking and network management software LANs WANs Internet Related Products

What is Cisco synonymous with?

Routing and switching

Cloud Protect

Secure endpoints, applications, data, and workloads with a single vendor solution across on-premises and cloud environments

Where has cisco pushed the bounds of development?

Security, data center, cloud, the Internet of Things, Collaboration, and more

Top Three Protecting Capabilities

Segment Enforce Detect

What does the internet-working router do?

Selects the most efficient route for data flow between networks. First company that provided multi-protocol routers commercially

Service Providers

Telcos, managed service providers, cloud service providers. Network Infrastructure Cloud Collaboration Video Mobility

Intent-based networking

The ideas of a network administrator defining a desired state of the network, then having automated network orchestration software implement those policies. Covers analytics.

What is the central repository for all architecture and investment portfolio collateral

Third-party IT planning and enterprise architecture software platforms

What is Cisco's vision?

To change the way we work, live, play, and learn. Shape the future of the internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for customers, employees, investors, and ecosystem partners. Want to deliver a highly secure, intelligent platform for digital business

What is the goal of any enterprise architecture?

To create a unified IT environment across the entire business

What is a router used for?

To tie multiple networks together and act as a dispatcher

Cisco Meraki

Unify management and control of thousands of mobile and desktop devices in the secure dashboard

Target for reducing GHG emissions

Want to reduce operations by 60% worldwide by 2022

3 Major Market Transitions

Work, the internet, and computing driven by collaboration, video, and virtualization

What was the first product Cisco shipped?

a TCP/IP router in 1986

QUIZ QUESTION: Which hybrid and public cloud solution services help customers design, plan, accelerate, and de-risk multi-cloud migration? a) Cloud advisory b) Cloud connect c) Cloud protect d) Cloud Consume

a) Cloud advisory

QUIZ QUESTION: Which is the management position in Cisco's intent based networking solution? a) DNA b) UCS director c) CloudCenter d) UCS Central

a) DNA

QUIZ QUESTION: Which statement is true about Enterprise Networks in the digital age? a) Enterprises can identify market opportunities and offer business services to customers to capitalize on those opportunities by using rapid, agile application development b) Application delivery allows the deployment of such new services with investments in server or networking infrastructure c) Cloud computing is accelerated by establishing new software stacks and drawing pre-existing data from a multitude of information source d) All of the above

a) Enterprises can identify market opportunities and offer business services to customers to capitalize on those opportunities by using rapid, agile application development

QUIZ QUESTION: Which are the 5 pillars of the cloud? a) Network, compute, storage, application, security b) data, network, transport, presentation, application c) leadership, strategy, structure, risk management, technology d) security, compute, virtualization, application, people

a) network, compute, storage, application, security

CISCO UCS and Hyperflex

allow adaptive management through a hosted management platform

Cisco seeks to create...

an intuitive system that anticipates actions, stops security threats, and continues to evolve and learn

QUIZ QUESTION: Which architecture best describes how the Cisco Unified Data Center platform combines compute, network, management, and storage access? a) A redundant architecture b) A single architecture c) An independent architecture d) both a and b

b) A single architecture

QUIZ QUESTION: What are the four BOST Enterprise Architecture Framework views? a) Business, organizational, security, time b) Business, operations, systems, technology c) Budget, operational, systems, tactical d) Business, operations, systems, talents

b) Business, operations, systems, technology

QUIZ QUESTION: Which statement is true regarding the Cisco UCS product range? a) Cloud-based service that allows customers to set up and configure an entire virtual data center in just a few minutes b) Increased productivity, reduced total cost of ownership, and scalability to the data center c) Communicate on an all-in-one platform designed to fit the way customers work d) All of the above

b) Increased productivity, reduced total cost of ownership, and scalability to the data center

QUIZ QUESTION: Broadly speaking, what are Cisco's three main market segments? a) Geographic, demographic, behavioral b) Large enterprises and public sector, service providers, small and midsize business c) Business to business, industrial, professional services d) Business to consumer, business to government, education services

b) Large enterprises and public sector, service providers, small and midsize business

QUIZ QUESTION: Which of these unified computing products delivers unified storage industry standard form factor? a) UCS B - Series Blade Servers b) UCS S - Series Storage Servers c) UCS C - Series Rack Servers d) UCS Management Software

b) UCS S - Series Storage Servers

QUIZ QUESTION: Which component is covered by intent based networking architecture? a) performance b) analytics c) security d) all of the above

b) analytics

QUIZ QUESTION: Which template is used to help articulate new offers such as solution bundles in terms of offerings, markets, pricing methods, routes to market, and more? a) Business motivational model template b) offer structure template c) Business model canvas (BMC) d) Stakeholder analysis grid

b) offer structure template

QUIZ QUESTION: Which feature in DNA center can see and block all threats, even those in encrypted traffic? a) Identity service engine b) Cisco FirePower c) Encrypted traffic analytics (ETA) d) Application-centric infrastructure (ACI)

c) Encrypted traffic analytics (ETA)

QUIZ QUESTION: Which of the following is Cisco's Company mission statement? a) Changing the way we work, live, play, and learn b) To lead market transitions with customer-centric systems, solutions, and architectures c) Shape the future of the internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors, and ecosystem partners d) The Network works, no excuses.

c) Shape the future of the internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors, and ecosystem partners

QUIZ QUESTION: Which function is provided by Identity Services Engine (ISE) within DNA center? a) Application visibility b) Network bandwidth management c) Policy control d) Cloud connectivity

c) policy control

QUIZ QUESTION: Which of the following statements best describes Cisco's environmental vision goals? a) To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from our worldwide operations by 60% in 2022 b) Cisco is aiming to use electricity generated from renewable sources for at least 85% of the company's global electricity needs by 2022 c) Improve product power consumption from plug to port, with a goal to achieve a six to seven percent increase in system energy efficiency to a target of 92% by 2020 d) All of the above

d) All of the above

QUIZ QUESTION: Which of the following statements best describes Cisco's technology vision goals? a) Digitization, workplace transformation, and investment protection b) To lead market transitions with customer-centric systems, solutions, and architectures c) To create an intuitive system that anticipates actions, stops security threats in their tracks, and continues to evolve and learn d) All of the above

d) All of the above

QUIZ QUESTION: Which statement best describes the benefits achieved when the Cisco Unified Data Center is deployed? a) Innovation b) Increase budget efficiency c) Simplify IT operations d) All of the above

d) All of the above

QUIZ QUESTION: Which statement best describes the benefits of Cisco Data Center? a) Enhance application performance: Help ensure application performance across a device at all locations b) Seamless multicloud mobility: Deploy new applications to all locations within your multicloud domain c) Pervasive security: Protect applications, infrastructure, data, users, and devices with performance visibility and analytics d) All of the above

d) All of the above

QUIZ QUESTION: Which component in DNA center achieves automation? a) Tetration b) Identity Service Engine c) Network Data Platform d) Network Control Platform

d) Network Control Platform

QUIZ QUESTION: Which statement best describes the pillars of the Cisco Unified Data Center? a) Cisco Unified Fabric and Unified Computing b) Cisco Unified Mobility and Unified Fabric c) Cisco Unified Management d) Both a and c

d) both a and c

QUIZ QUESTION: Which statement described key Cisco UCS benefits? a) Superior performance, scalability, and high performance b) Unified network fabric c) Centralized infrastructure management d) Application-centric design e) All of the above

e) All of the above

QUIZ QUESTION: Which statement is true about the Cisco Enterprise Architecture Framework? a) A conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of an organization b) Provides common taxonomy and promotes cross collaboration c) A holistic, business-centric framework d) Can help simplify things and manage the data so that organizations can capture the potential business value e) All of the above

e) All of the above

QUIZ QUESTION: Which statement best describes the key features required in an Enterprise Network Architecture in the digital age? a) faster innovation b) simplicity c) security d) cloud enabled e) all of the above

e) all of the above

Cisco's Cloud Advisory Services

identifies the best private, public, and hybrid cloud mix

Three focus areas

people: Enabling individuals to reach their full potential. society: scaling inclusive social and economic impact in countries. planet: advancing environmentally sustainable growth in a digital world

Metrics

provide the basis for informed investment decision-making and effective alignment of people, processes, and systems with business and technology goods. Helps establish credibility among management.


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