Intelligently Managing Multi-Cloud Environments

Deploying IT services into the "messy middle" between on-prem and cloud can be challenging.

This episode finds hosts Matt Kimball and Steve McDowell, principal analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy, talking to Todd Brannon, Cisco's Senior Director of Product Marketing for Cloud Platforms, about the challenges of managing IT resources in a multi-cloud world.

The guys talk about the challenges of managing a mixed cloud/on-prem, the adoption (or lack of adoption!) of autonmous infrastructure,

00:00 Podcast Opens

02:44 Introducing Cisco's Todd Brannon

04:58 What are the biggest cloud-related challenges facing IT today?

07:30 Solving the common needs of enterprise IT

12:25 Cisco Intersight Services for Cloud

22:51 Autonomous Infrastructure

26:05 We've talked a lot about software -- what's happening in the hardware space?

34:35 Cloud is one thing -- what's happening at the Edge?

39:50 Roll Credits!

Special Guest: Todd Brannon.