Cisco unveils new ‘intelligent’ approach to networking with brace of product launches

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The aim of the new service is to provide customers with the option to increase visibility into the performance of their networking hardware and promote easier management through a single application view. “Meraki is undeniably the simplest cloud management platform on the market, the most adopted, the highest deployed, and bringing these two things together: the powerful simplicity without compromises - I truly believe you can change the way IT is managed to carve a new path that delivers sophistication, power, and simplicity,” said Todd Nightingale, EVP and GM at Cisco enterprise networking and cloud. Rebecca Stone, SVP of customer solutions marketing and CMO at Cisco, said that the increasing complexity of enterprise networks across all industries is growing to a point where the technology is becoming “less scalable and less intelligent”. “[IT teams] cant manage, they cant scale to all of the demands that are coming today, and so the user experience is really suffering as well.” Stone gave the example of everyday professionals facing increasing amounts of friction signing in to all the different services such as email, VPNs, collaboration tools, and other products - using multiple identity and access management clients to access the tools they need every day. Cisco said it believes the best way to build a solution that can address these issues is to approach it from a platform perspective, which can help unify technologies and ultimately improve the experience for both IT teams and the end-users too.

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