Cisco CloudCenter [EOL] Reviews

We've actually used a private cloud within our company. Typically, we needed a single pane of glass to provide infrastructure services to our clients. CloudCenter is really at the center of everything we built for our data center to keep its initiative. We're really using it to push applications in DMS into the different clouds, as part of the recent additions of other functionalities within our five companies. Since we were an existing company, our customers are still waiting for the pipeline upgrade. A lot of the new features are really interesting, so we are trying to go towards a public cloud. We need to be able to get all the costs, computational features, and the actual Orchestrator to be able to more easily orchestrate across the different targets. We have multiple targets and that's going to help us actually.

The tool is really at the center of our whole digital transformation. That is how people will consume infrastructure in the future.

Cost Optimizer is a new module that works alongside the Workload Manager. They are specifically going to be using it in a lab, on the modulator. This is for public consumption, so to be able to deploy workloads into the call. However, not all of your actual standard inner cloud is going to be managed through CloudCenter. They might have SaaS offerings or might be using other guys, so typically what Cost Optimizer is doing is it's connecting to your actual ORG structure in your public cloud offering and will pull all of the costs you actually had into that cloud account. Along with the other ORGs under that cloud account, you will typically see what's managed by CloudCenter and what's not managed by CloudCenter. 

For us, it's going to provide insights as to where we are spending money. One nice thing about the Cost Optimizer is that let's say you've deployed an M4 large something on an Amazon or another size of VM on Azure. If it says to you that typically you are using a small M1, you're spending too much money, it will tell you. You could save $300 a month because this server is under maintenance, so that feature is typically something that there will be doing recommendations to customers on how to work. My work as a business unit last year involved looking into different ways of doing warm recommendations, such as how you can typically bring it back on-prem or move it or have a policy for aging or scaling that could help you minimize the cost. I think the potential of Cost Optimizer is just starting out because, with the recommendation they can do, they can really bring this to the next level.

CloudCenter is a tool that handles a hybrid kind of deployment or is basically more like infrastructure code. We're moving away from it due to the fact that they discontinued the product and introduced something new that does not fit our purpose. That's why we're going to a new product called Resolve.

They have a tool in CloudCenter called Action Orchestrator that helps you to build workflows.

There are workflows, automated workflows, of different tasks between different infrastructure divisions, like your VMware, your firewall, and your network. We're also using a different kind of network called ACI, so we orchestrate the infrastructure and orchestrate from the user and automate the process of deploying the infrastructure.

The solution is stable.

You can scale it easily.

Our company uses the solution's GUI interface to configure and monitor ports. We look at usage and determine if there are any issues. 

Cisco is a very qualified company and has been in business for many, many years. 

The solution is useful because you can configure all the way down to ports. 

We're only using it because we create tenants and each OU inside of our company is with our DevOps. With CloudCenter, you are able to use their own VMs and manage their own workload. 

The stability of the solution is quite good.

The initial setup is fairly straightforward if you have a basic setup.

The solution is used in any office as a cloud management platform. It is primarily used by telecom companies who also use Cisco hardware. One telecom customer in Bangladesh and certain US customers are using CloudCenter. 

We are system integrators and deploy this solution for our customers. 

We use the product for demonstration, device provisioning, and data management.

They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features.

We're an implementor, and therefore we deploy this solution for our clients. As a use case example, one client is a service provider in Bolivia, and they deploy an ISP for their customers. They need a solution that includes the cloud server solution of Cisco with an ACI and an ASX-T solution. It basically becomes an in-house solution for the customer.

It's difficult to pinpoint the value, as clients don't have the same system before this implementation. However, they are very happy with the solution, as they are implementing it for a number of customers. It allows for new local services. Some companies, especially the public sector, prefer that the provider stores the information locally in the country, not outside the country. This particular option is of great value to them.

The solution is agile and it has APIs for integration. 

The tool should improve its security on the XDR part.