Cisco Cloud Infrastructure

    Introduction xxiii
Part 1 Cisco Data Center Networking and Infrastructure
Chapter 1 Cisco Data Center Orchestration 1
    IT Challenges and Data Center Solutions 2
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator 14
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller 25
    Third-party Applications and Cloud-based Services 34
    Summary 39
    References/Additional Reading 40
Chapter 2 Cisco Data Center Analytics and Insights 41
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights 41
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker 68
    Cisco Meraki MX 74
    Summary 79
    References/Additional Reading 79
Chapter 3 Cisco Data Center Solutions for Hybrid Cloud 81
    Cisco Cloud Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco Cloud ACI) 82
    Cisco UCS Director 92
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager 103
    Cisco Hyperflex -- Intersight 116
    Summary 127
    References/Additional Reading 127
Part 2 Cisco Applications and Workload Management
Chapter 4 Application, Analytics, and Workload Performance Management with AppDynamics 129
    What Is AppDynamics? 129
    AppDynamics Concepts 130
    Deployment Planning Guide 135
    Application Monitoring 142
    Integration with Other AppDynamics Modules 146
    Application Security Monitoring 148
    End User Monitoring 154
    Database Visibility 169
    Analytics 178
    Monitoring Cloud Applications 180
    Cloud Monitoring with AppDynamics Cloud 196
    Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring 197
    Summary 198
    References/Additional Reading 199
Chapter 5 Management 201
    IT Challenges and Workload Management Solutions 202
    Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer 204
    Understanding Intersight Workload Optimizer Supply Chain 212
    Cisco Container Platform 215
    Cisco Intersight Kubernetes Service 228
    Summary 238
    References/Additional Reading 238
Chapter 6 Cisco Cloud Webex Application 239
    Cisco Webex Features 239
    Cisco Webex Cloud Service Architecture 268
    Summary 286
    References/Additional Reading 286
Chapter 7 Internet of Things (IoT) 287
    How Do OT and IT Differ? 288
    Cisco Kinetic Platform 289
    Introduction to Cisco IoT 297
    Edge Device Manager 298
    Edge Intelligence 305
    Licensing 311
    Summary 311
Part 3 Cisco Cloud Security
Chapter 8 Cisco Cloud Security 313
    Shadow IT Challenge 313
    Cisco Cloudlock 314
    Cisco Umbrella 328
    Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics 337
    Cisco Duo Security 348
    Summary 360
 
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Avinash Shukla (CCIE No. 28418), Senior Leader in Ciscos US Customer Experience (CX) Organization, has 14 years of experience in Cisco CX roles spanning Professional and Technical Services, and extensive expertise in collaboration and data center technologies. He now leads a team of engineers working on Cisco Data Center Technology (Cisco Unified Computing Systems, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Virtualization, and data center automation). He holds a B.Tech in ECE from IIIT, Hyderabad and has won numerous Cisco awards for customer focus, and has delivered many technical trainings for Cisco partners and customers.
Jalpa Patel (CCIE No. 42465) is a multidisciplinary technologist and a passionate leader with a strong track record of successful engineering executions and game-changing business achievements defining, building, and growing new products. Her domain knowledge of Data Center hardware infrastructure is focused on Compute, Networking, Storage, and Accelerators. Patel holds an MS degree in Telecommunication Networks from NYU, a BS degree from Government Engineering College, Gujarat, India, and an Advanced Program Management Certificate from Stanford.
Komal Panzade is a Senior Technical Consulting Engineer in Cisco's Customer Experience (CX) organization and has 6 years of experience working on different Data Center Technologies like Compute, Storage, and Virtualization. She currently works in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) domain focusing on Distributed Systems and Automation. She is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator and helps Cisco customers with efficient management of their infrastructure using Ciscos SaaS platform called Intersight. Komal holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from Amity University, Noida, India.
Himanshu Sardana (CCNP, VCP, CKA), is a Senior Technical Consulting Engineer in Ciscos Customer Experience (CX) Org. He started his professional journey with Cisco and now has 6 years of experience in Data Center Compute and Storage space. His current area of focus is on Ciscos Hyperconverged business (Hyperflex) and Intersight, helping with high escalations and creating tools like Hypercheck to make customer interactions with Cisco Products better. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Chitkara University, Punjab, India.