Unified Management

Enhance Speed, Efficiency, and Innovation

Simplify and automate the process of deploying IT infrastructure and services to support business objectives with Unified Management. These end-to-end management software solutions provide an intelligent approach to IT management, offering speed and enterprise-grade reliability. These solutions cover:

• Applications
• Compute
• Networking
• Storage
• Security

Optimized for Cisco Unified Computing System and Cisco Nexus architectures, these solutions also work in heterogeneous IT environments through integration with Cisco ecosystem partners – to complement and extend the investment in your existing IT systems and management tools. Unified Management solutions are designed for data center and cloud environments, and operate transparently across physical and virtual resources.

Unified Management solutions provide:

• Process automation for network, compute, storage, applications, and other IT services
• Web-based self-service portal and service catalog for on-demand provisioning
• Lifecycle management and pay-per-use tracking to support cloud computing
• Flexible, policy-based approach for governance and control

In addition, Cisco Unified Management offers:

• Orchestration of complex operational processes and integration with third-party systems
• Virtual and physical server management for hypervisors and bare-metal workloads
• Network abstraction layer to deploy individual components as network "containers"
• Proactive monitoring of network for health and performance bottlenecks

Cisco Unified Management solutions complement Cisco networking and compute solutions to provide a data center platform that:

• Is comprehensive enough for mission-critical applications
• Is flexible enough to meet new user demands
• Reduces data center operational costs

Cisco is the only vendor to deliver unified, end-to-end service provisioning and management of physical and virtual resources, including:

• Applications
• Compute
• Networking
• Storage
• Security

Increase Agility and Reduce Complexity

By promoting server consolidation and process automation, Unified Management solutions deliver greater agility and scale for the data center, while reducing complexity and risk. Cisco solutions support role- and policy-based management using service profiles and templates to simplify operations. In addition, these solutions help enable self-service provisioning for faster, more efficient IT.

Improve Visibility and Control

Cisco management software is optimized for Cisco architectures, but it is designed to work in a heterogeneous IT environment. Integration with industry-leading systems management and storage partners helps Cisco management solutions provide greater system visibility by integrating easily with existing:

• Infrastructure systems
• Management tools
• Processes

To help ensure governance and control, service design tools and service profiles enforce policies for security, service levels, and resources for all workloads.

Reduce IT Costs

With exceptional functionality and an ecosystem-friendly approach, Unified Management solutions reduce day-to-day operational expenses and increase resource availability for implementation of more strategic initiatives. Flexible, model-driven and policy-based automation:

• Reduces the time and cost of setting up and provisioning infrastructure
• Increases asset use by eliminating overprovisioning and by efficiently pooling resources

Support IT-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing

Cisco is the only vendor with both the enterprise-class networking and compute infrastructure and the management solutions necessary to deliver unified IT as a service. With this unique approach, Cisco provides:

• Equivalent management capabilities across physical and virtual resources
• Ability to support the evolution to private, public, and hybrid cloud environments