Network giant Cisco partners with Nutanix to offer multicloud deployment solutions

Admin-Devopscurry — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 07:00:14 +0000

Cisco, the leader in enterprise networking and security, and Nutanix Inc, leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, announced a global strategic partnership to accelerate hybrid multi-cloud deployments by offering the industry’s most complete hyper-converged solution for IT modernization and business transformation.

Cisco is combining its compute and networking infrastructure with Nutanix’s cloud platform. The companies will sell the resulting solution to organizations that need help simplifying their operations and speeding up digital transformation, and they’ll do so largely through resellers, managed service providers and other channel experts.

According to Jeremy Foster, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco Compute, the new solution will span virtual compute, networking, and storage. It aims to function across both customer data centers and public clouds.

“Customers are asking for solutions that are simple, sustainable and future-ready,” said Foster. “This partnership answers with a complete solution spanning virtual compute, networking and storage across customer data centers and public clouds.”

“This partnership answers with a complete solution spanning virtual compute, networking and storage across customer data centers and public clouds. By combining Cisco’s award-winning SaaS-managed compute portfolio with Nutanix’s market-proven cloud platform software, we can help customers develop a balanced approach to power modern workloads on-prem and in the cloud,” said Foster.

The Nutanix Cloud Platform provides a consistent cloud operating model with a single platform for running applications and data across data centers, edges and public clouds. To best support application deployments, from mission-critical workloads to AI-driven innovation, performance and capacity scale linearly, resilience is delivered from the ground up with self-healing nodes, and persistent storage is natively integrated.

Nutanix chief commercial officer Tarkan Maner said: “This partnership will deliver an expanded market opportunity for both organisations as they tackle the challenges of standardising, simplifying, and securing environments across the data centre, in public cloud and the edge.”

Cisco and Nutanix plan to enable their global sales teams and partners to offer the integrated solution, with the Cisco team leading the go-to-market efforts. The availability of the solution is expected within the next three months.

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2023 Layoffs: Networking giant Cisco lays off employees across business units

Admin-Devopscurry — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:58:36 +0000

The internet and social media is recently flooded by the news of internal layoffs announced by networking giant Cisco Systems, as claimed by former and current Cisco employees .While the employees saw this as a fresh round of layoffs, Cisco said it was just enacting plans announced in November 2022.

“These recent notifications are part of the rebalancing effort we began in November 2022, which included a limited restructuring impacting our real estate portfolio and approximately 5% of our workforce,” a Cisco spokesperson said.

Last November, despite posting record quarterly revenue of $13.6 billion, Cisco announced it would be laying off around 5% of its 83,000 workers.

“Got to know that my name is in the layoff list through a known Senior Manager who was in a meeting with my Director and frankly speaking, it’s such a toxic and controlling environment and I personally don’t want to work in that team. Little stressed as the job market is very dull,” a sacked employee wrote.

Another user said software engineers are being impacted at the company.

According to verified Cisco employees on anonymous professional community forum Blind, some business units allegedly affected are Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Cisco Collaboration, Cisco Data Center Services & Solutions, Cisco Experience Centers (CxC), Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) Cisco Servers and Webex.

Cisco’s last round of layoffs occured in January-23, when the company revealed that it was cutting 673 jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area as part of its plan to maximize cost savings announced in 2022. The company at the time eliminated 371 jobs at its San Jose location, 222 jobs in Milpitas and 80 in San Francisco, with the majority of the layoffs impacting software engineers, technical engineers, hardware engineers, product managers and supervisors, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications filed with the state of California in January.

The layoffs in November were part of a $600M restructuring plan. Cisco similarly implemented a restructuring plan in mid-2020 which included a substantial number of layoffs.

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2023 Layoffs: Networking giant Cisco lays off employees across business units