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Cisco Partner Summit: IT Platform Approach Will Make IT 'Faster' And 'Smarter'

'The focus for Cisco overall is to build these agile platforms for IT to work faster and smarter, and we are building this across every aspect of the infrastructure, including users and applications,' Cisco's Prashanth Shenoy tells CRN.

by Gina Narcisi

With simplicity and agility top of mind for Cisco Systems, the tech giant unveiled its new IT platform strategy for moving and automating workloads and applications on Wednesday during Cisco Partner Summit Digital 2020.

The new approach will help customers work faster and smarter, especially at a time when resources are scarce and IT requirements have changed overnight, said Prashanth Shenoy, vice president of marketing, Enterprise, Data Center and Cloud Networking, IoT, and Developer Platform for Cisco.

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Specifically, when it comes to the hybrid cloud approach. "We're living in challenging environments, especially IT, which is being tasked with driving new projects in a very rapid manner that no one expected three quarters ago," Shenoy said. "IT projects are being approved and implemented in weeks, rather than a year and the amount of work that IT has to do to drive that is immense."

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