Multicloud Initiatives

The Multicloud Approach

In today’s world, there is no single cloud. It’s a multicloud world, where organizations use multiple cloud services from multiple providers. Where cloud strategies can span an organization’s networking, security, analytics, management, and infrastructure strategies. Where the ability to innovate quickly is impacted by an organization’s lack of the right skills, processes, and tools.

But what if there was an answer for all of this? What if there was a simpler approach to how you connect, protect, and consume cloud in a multicloud world?

Make a selection on the right to better understand the essential capabilities to move forward successfully with some of the key initiatives faced by organizations today.

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Build and manage a hybrid cloud environment

Below you’ll find the capabilities essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential capabilities

  • Risk-mitigation planning for hybrid cloud
  • Private cloud infrastructure built for multicloud
  • Secure connectivity to a public cloud
  • Threat detection based on application and access behavior
  • User and cloud environment access protection
  • Application deployment and management on the hybrid cloud
  • Application lifecycle management
  • Container orchestration
  • Application performance and SLA management

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Build and manage a hybrid cloud

Below you’ll find the Cisco® solutions essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential solutions

Cisco Multicloud Portfolio

Cloud
Advisory

  • For Cloud Consume
    (Cisco Cloud Advisory Services)

Cloud
Connect

  • Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V (Virtual networking, routing, and segmentation)

Cloud
Protect

  • Cisco Stealthwatch® Cloud (Behavioral threats analytics and incident response)
  • Cisco Umbrella™ (Secure Internet Gateway and DNS security)

Cloud
Consume

  • AppDynamics® (Application performance management)
  • Cisco CloudCenter™ (Multicloud management and orchestration)
  • Cisco Container Platform (Container orchestration)

Cisco Private Cloud

  • Cisco HyperFlex™
  • Cisco Nexus® / Cisco ACI™

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Select, plan, migrate, and manage your applications in a public cloud environment

Below you’ll find the capabilities essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential capabilities

  • Risk-mitigation planning for application migration
  • Application dependency mapping
  • Secure connectivity to a public cloud
  • Threat detection based on application and access behavior
  • Application deployment and management on the public cloud
  • Application lifecycle management
  • Application performance and SLA management

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Migrate applications to public cloud

Below you’ll find the Cisco® solutions essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential solutions

Cisco Multicloud Portfolio

Cloud
Advisory

  • For cloud migration (Cisco Cloud Advisory Services)

Cloud
Connect

  • Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V (Virtual networking, routing, and segmentation)

Cloud
Protect

  • Cisco Stealthwatch® Cloud (Behavioral threats analytics and incident response)

Cloud
Consume

  • AppDynamics® (Application performance management)
  • Cisco CloudCenter™ (Multicloud management and orchestration)

Cisco infrastructure

  • Cisco Firepower® Next-Generation Firewalls

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Optimize connectivity to your SaaS applications and protect
your SaaS application data access

Below you’ll find the capabilities essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential capabilities

  • Risk-mitigation planning for SaaS connections and for improving the user experience
  • Network path optimization from company offices and remote users to your SaaS applications
  • SaaS application data protection using a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
  • User and cloud environment access protection

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Optimize SaaS application connectivity and security

Below you’ll find the Cisco® solutions essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential solutions

Cisco Multicloud Portfolio

Cloud
Advisory

  • For Cloud Connect (Cisco Cloud Advisory Services)

Cloud
Connect

  • Cisco vEdge with Cisco Umbrella™ (SD-WAN)

Cloud
Protect

  • Cisco Cloudlock (Cloud access security broker for SaaS security)
  • Cisco Umbrella (Secure Internet Gateway and DNS security)

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Connect data centers or campuses directly to cloud or via a colocation option

Below you’ll find the capabilities essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential capabilities

  • Risk-mitigation planning for connecting data centers or campuses to a public cloud
  • Secure connectivity to a public cloud
  • Configurations for data center and campus network devices to connect to one or more public clouds and virtual private clouds
  • User and cloud environment access protection

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Connect data center/campus, colo, and cloud

Below you’ll find the Cisco® solutions essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential solutions

Cisco Multicloud Portfolio

Cloud
Advisory

  • For Cloud Connect (Cisco Cloud Advisory Services)

Cloud
Connect

  • Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V (Virtual networking, routing, and segmentation)

Cloud
Protect

  • Cisco AMP for Endpoints (Endpoint protection)
  • Cisco Umbrella™ (Secure Internet Gateway and DNS security)

Cisco infrastructure

  • Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR)
  • Cisco Firepower® Next-Generation Firewalls

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Create and manage application deployment environments for cloud-native
applications running on one or more public clouds.

Below you’ll find the capabilities essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential capabilities

  • Risk-mitigation planning for managing cloud-native environments
  • Secure connectivity to a public cloud
  • Threat detection based on application and access behavior
  • Application deployment and management on the public cloud
  • Application lifecycle management
  • Container orchestration
  • Application performance and SLA management

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Manage cloud-native applications in public clouds

Below you’ll find the Cisco® solutions essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential solutions

Cisco Multicloud Portfolio

Cloud
Advisory

  • For Cloud Consume (Cisco Cloud Advisory Services)

Cloud
Connect

  • Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V (Virtual networking, routing, and segmentation)

Cloud
Protect

  • Cisco Stealthwatch® Cloud (Behavioral threats analytics and incident response)

Cloud
Consume

  • AppDynamics® (Application performance management)
  • Cisco CloudCenter™ (Multicloud management and orchestration)
  • Cisco Container Platform (Container orchestration)

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Securely connect branches directly to cloud/internet using SD-WAN

Below you’ll find the capabilities essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential capabilities

  • Risk-mitigation planning for connecting branches directly to a public cloud
  • Direct internet access (DIA) configuration and deployment from the branch using SD-WAN and Secure Internet Gateway (SIG)
  • User and cloud environment access protection

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Connect branches direct-to-cloud

Below you’ll find the Cisco® solutions essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential solutions

Cisco Multicloud Portfolio

Cloud
Advisory

  • For Cloud Connect (Cisco Cloud Advisory Services)

Cloud
Connect

  • Cisco vEdge with Cisco Umbrella™ (SD-WAN)

Cloud
Protect

  • Cisco AMP for Endpoints (Endpoint protection)
  • Cisco Umbrella (Secure Internet Gateway and DNS security)

Cisco infrastructure

  • Cisco Firepower® Next-Generation Firewalls

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Expand on-demand capacity of your data center, private cloud, or current
public cloud to satisfy your application runtime needs.

Below you’ll find the capabilities essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential capabilities

  • Risk-mitigation planning for application bursting into a public cloud
  • Secure connectivity to a public cloud
  • Policy creation for application bursting needs
  • Application workload protection in the data center and public clouds
  • Threat detection based on application and access behavior
  • Application deployment and management on the public cloud
  • Application lifecycle management
  • Application performance management on premises and in public clouds

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Burst applications into public cloud

Below you’ll find the Cisco® solutions essential to implementing your selected initiative.

Essential solutions

Cisco Multicloud Portfolio

Cloud
Advisory

  • For Cloud Consume (Cisco Cloud Advisory Services)

Cloud
Connect

  • Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V (Virtual networking, routing, and segmentation)

Cloud
Protect

  • Cisco Stealthwatch® Cloud (Behavioral threats analytics and incident response)

Cloud
Consume

  • Cisco CloudCenter™ (Multicloud management and orchestration)
  • AppDynamics® (Application performance management)

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