As the industry shifts to application-centric IT and a services model, Cisco is following an ambitious strategy of unifying clouds through software and breaking down data silos, Nick Earle, Cisco’s senior vice president of global cloud and managed services, told NexGen Cloud attendees Thursday.
The networking leader is no longer all about routers and switches, Earle said. Instead, Cisco is blazing a trail to enable cloud-native environments where cross-platform micro-services are powering advanced analytics at the network’s edge.
That approach will usher in a new paradigm of “little data,” Earle believes, in which users can query data stores in real time without concern for where the data lives on the network.
