Cisco adds HCI, UCS, software to hybrid cloud infrastructure
Summary
The latter would add visibility into public cloud Kubernetes clusters as a first step toward cross-environment infrastructure management within Ciscos software platform. Other prominent IT vendors such as VMware and IBM/Red Hat have offered hybrid cloud management tools with more extensive features for a long time. "Every company is trying to raise its software IQ, and Cisco, to its credit, has pivoted [its legacy] Control Center to cloud-native Intersight well," said William Fellows, an analyst at 451 Research, a division of S&P Global. The modules offer 100 G single port support, 200 G per compute node and 24 GPUs per chassis for 1.6 Tbps of aggregate network capacity. What ties all three products together is Ciscos intent to provide an autonomous integrated hardware and software package for AI or a hybrid cloud, Kimball said.