Delivers an Open, Extensible and Software-Driven Architecture Enabling Businesses to Innovate Faster, Reduce Cost and Complexity and Lower Risk
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At the same time that enterprises are addressing how to move to digitization, there has been tremendous innovation in networking, including software defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), model-driven programming, overlay networks, open APIs, cloud management, orchestration, analytics and more. These innovations have great promise to improve operational efficiency and enable digital applications, yet adoption has been slow due to the difficulty in consuming these many new technologies. The market needs a solution that integrates the critical innovations in networking software -- virtualization, automation, analytics, cloud service management, and open and extensible programmability -- into an architecture that can achieve these promises in an integrated and easy to consume manner.
Cisco today announces Digital Network Architecture (DNA), an open, extensible and software driven architecture for digital business. Cisco® DNA complements Cisco's market leading, data center based Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) technology by extending the policy driven approach and software strategy throughout the entire network: from campus to branch, wired to wireless, core to edge. Cisco DNA is delivered within the Cisco ONE™ Software family, enabling simplified software-based licensing, and helping with investment protection and flexibility.
Cisco DNA is built on five guiding principles:
1. Virtualize everything to give organizations freedom of choice to run any service anywhere, independent of the underlying platform -- physical or virtual, on premise or in the cloud.
2. Designed for automation to make networks and services on those networks easy to deploy, manage and maintain -- fundamentally changing the approach to network management.
3. Pervasive analytics to provide insights on the operation of the network, IT infrastructure and the business -- information that only the network can provide.
4. Service management delivered from the cloud to unify policy and orchestration across the network -- enabling the agility of cloud with the security and control of on premises solutions.
5. Open, extensible and programmable at every layer -- Integrating Cisco and 3rd party technology, open API's and a developer platform, to support a rich ecosystem of network-enabled applications.
"The digital network is the platform for digital business," said Rob Soderbery, SVP for Enterprise Products and Solutions, Cisco. "Cisco DNA brings together virtualization, automation, analytics, cloud and programmability to build that platform. The acronym for the Digital Networking Architecture -- DNA -- isn't an accident. We're fundamentally changing the DNA of networking technology."
Cisco DNA News Highlights
Today Cisco is announcing automation, virtualization and cloud management capabilities in support of the DNA architecture:
Supporting Quotes
"Enterprise NFV services in DNA allow us to innovate with speed via open programmability and by hosting virtualized functions and applications wherever, whenever I need them, network-wide," said Markus Voegele, Sr. Network Architect, IBM Aviation Industry Services.
"Unlike other SDN solutions, DNA innovations like APIC EM can be deployed on our existing infrastructure so we can move quickly with minimum risk and maximum investment protection," said CJ Singh, Chief Technology Officer, Backcountry.com.
Product Pricing, Availability and Programs
Cisco Capital Easy Pay is a new global offer specifically created for Cisco DNA. It allows a three-year 0% lease for all products as part of Cisco DNA. Customers pay 90% of the cost, over the three-year term, providing predictable monthly payments and cash flow management. At the end of the three-year term and subject to payment of applicable subscription fees, the customer has three options: return and refresh, purchase the assets for 10% of the original purchase price, or extend the lease. Restrictions apply; see your local Cisco Capital representative for full details.
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*"According to the new IDC, Worldwide Digital Transformation Spending Guide, 2015 1H" worldwide spending on digital transformation (DX) technologies will grow to more than $2.1 trillion in 2019 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.8% over the 2014-2019 forecast period. Spending on DX technologies in the United States will follow a similar trajectory, reaching nearly $732 billion in 2019."
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