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Giving Customers Choice to Buy How They Want: Cisco Bridges to as-a-Service with Cisco Plus
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco Live -- News Summary Cisco announcing plans to lead the industry with new Network-as-a-Service (NaaS)
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[{"type":"text","content":"SAN JOSE, Calif., March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco Live -- \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nNews Summary\nCisco announcing plans to lead the industry with new Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions to deliver simpler IT and flexible procurement for customers looking for greater speed, agility and scale Cisco also reveals plans to help customers build a SASE foundation today (with Cisco SD-WAN and security) with as-a-service offer coming soon Cisco Plus offers include flexible consumption for data center networking, compute and storage now, and commits to delivering the majority of its portfolio as-a-service over timeTo help customers connect, secure and automate to accelerate their digital agility in a cloud-first world, Cisco today announced Cisco Plus, the company's unique as-a-service strategy, bringing new flexible buying and consumption models to customers. \nIntroducing Cisco Plus: It's Cisco, Plus So Much More To meet its customers' needs, Cisco is transforming its go-to-market strategy for hardware, software, and services. New buying and operations experiences from Cisco Plus provide simpler consumption and use of the Cisco portfolio. Cisco Plus will offer best-in-class networking, security, compute, storage, applications and observability solutions as-a-service with unified subscriptions that are easy to consume, simple to use and deliver an unparalleled experience.\nDriving to Network-as-a-Service (NaaS): Network-as-a-Service is a cloud model which enables customers to easily operate and maintain the outcomes they expect to get from the network, without owning, building and maintaining their own infrastructure. As IT teams strive to provide consistent, secure access to their growing remote and mobile workforce with less complexity, they want the benefits of NaaS models. They need a simple and reliable approach to protect and connect people across the hybrid workplace. Cisco Plus NaaS solutions will provide: \nSeamless and secure onramps to applications and cloud providers Flexible delivery models, including pay-per-use or pay-as-you-grow options End-to-end visibility from the client to the application to the ISP Unified policy engine to ensure the right users have access Security across everything, not bolted on as another point solution Real-time analytics providing AI/ML-driven insights for cost and performance tracking...