The new Cisco Unified Computing System X-Series will serve as the backbone of Cisco’s cloud offerings, with its ability to integrate computing, networking and storage resource to become a centralized management center and updated to allow hybrid operations across several cloud platforms, the company said.
Cisco also unveiled the Intersight Cloud Orchestrator, a low-code automation framework used to speed up delivery of services between networks; Intersight Workload Engine, a new operating system that features software-as-a-service management suited to handle modern, cloud-native workloads; and Cisco Service Mesh Manager, which is an extension to the Intersight Kubernetes Service that offers increased visibility and policy-based security to better manage Kubernetes clusters. The company also unveiled Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator, a service that enables configuration and management of common security policies across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and multiple on-premises sites.