What is CISCO Data Center Automation?
Cisco provides automation modules that allow for assimilation at a pace that is comfortable for your organization. Start with infrastructure automation, and when you're ready, expand your capabilities to enterprise and hybrid cloud or application automation. All modules work together and are operated using a common interface, which simplifies service lifecycle management. You can trust Cisco for data center automation that gets your business where it needs to be, as fast as it needs to be there.
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82 Likeliness to Recommend
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93 Plan to Renew
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81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+88 Net Emotional Footprint
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How much do users love CISCO Data Center Automation?
Pros
- Saves Time
- Enables Productivity
- Respectful
- Trustworthy
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CISCO Data Center Automation Reviews
Lawrence B.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Insurance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2024
Unique Features.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates CISCO Data Center Automation from other similar products?
CISCO DCA is designed with a modular approach, allowing flexibility in deployment and scalability as data center needs evolve.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
CISCO DCA delivers high reliability and performance, ensuring consistent service delivery and uptime for critical applications.
What do you dislike most about this product?
it is complex hence may require specialized expertise for deployment, configuration, and ongoing management, potentially posing challenges for organizations with limited IT resources or expertise.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Ensure your IT team possesses the necessary skills and expertise to effectively deploy and manage DCA or plan for training and upskilling initiatives to bridge any knowledge gaps.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
- Caring
Vikas M.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2023
A reliable and scalable solution
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates CISCO Data Center Automation from other similar products?
In our organization, we use the Cisco to improve the capacity and efficiency of our storage network. With this technology, we can handle large volumes of data and ensure the availability and security of critical information. The Cisco Data Center helps us solve network congestion problems and simplify the management of our storage infrastructure. It also enables us to deploy private cloud services and server virtualization to improve organizational agility.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Offers a significant amount of storage capacity, enabling efficient handling of substantial data volumes. This technology helps us improve the availability of critical services by implementing redundancy and fault tolerance. Allows us to simplify network management and reduce the total cost of ownership through hardware consolidation and server virtualization. In addition, we selected CISCO Data Center Automation because of the wide range of support tools and services offered by Cisco, which gives us confidence in the quality and performance of the solution.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The initial setup can be challenging and demands a considerable level of technical knowledge. Could benefit from more excellent port configuration and VLAN management flexibility.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is especially suited for organizations that handle large volumes of data and require high storage capacity. In addition, the Data Center is an excellent choice for organizations looking to implement private cloud services and server virtualization to improve efficiency and agility. It is also a good choice for organizations that require high availability and fault tolerance, Cisco supports the implementation of redundancy and failover. It provides a unique capacity, performance and reliability combination that perfectly suits our business needs.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Paula W.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2023
Cisco Data Center ; Features and capabilities
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates CISCO Data Center Automation from other similar products?
Cisco Data Center automation integrates with other Cisco products making it easy to manage the entire data center infrastructure.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Cloud automation; Cisco provides solutions like Cisco intersight ,which allows organizations to automate their multi-cloud infrastructure.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Limited third-party integration; Cisco Data Center Automation solutions may have limited integration with third party tools and systems making it difficult to manage a data center that uses multiple vendors products.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
To try the product; Cisco provides trials of some of their solutions, one can try these before making a decision.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
