Cisco to link all future products to its SaaS-y Cloud Control management tool
Cisco will no longer create products that don’t integrate with Cloud Control, its SaaS-y management platform that offers netadmins a single tool to manage all of the networking giant’s devices and much of its software portfolio.
Key points
- From December, Cisco will extend it to 8000 series routers, secure firewalls, campus gateway, and to Cloud Control itself.
- Schultz said Cisco is “working tirelessly” to deploy Cloud Control across the world as soon as possible.
Jeff Schultz, Cisco’s senior vice president for portfolio strategy and marketing, today told the company’s Live conference in Australia that Cloud Control will come online in the European Union, UK, and Down Under in February 2027.
Additional details
- That doesn’t mean those products will be manageable only if they can connect to Cloud Control.
- Another product Cisco plans to bring to more customers is Live Protect, a tool that implements compensating controls for flaws that organizations can’t immediately patch.
- Instead, the decision reflects Cisco’s belief that the main thing stopping its customers buying more of its products is the complexity of operating them in concert.
- Schultz also told the conference that Cisco will bundle its Thousand Eyes observability and security tool with the “Essentials” and “Advantage” licenses.
- Cisco has previously told The Register that slow rollout reflects the fact that Cisco needs to nail privacy and other regulatory niceties, and deploy infrastructure, before introducing the service to other markets.
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