Four Reasons to Use Infrastructure Lifecycle Management As-a-Service
Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service: The simplest way to see, control, and automate your Cisco and third-party compute, networking, and storage—in one place.
1. Simplify IT operations
Keeping up with the fast pace of business to support innovation and growth isn’t easy when your IT team has to manage your distributed compute, storage, and networking infrastructure with multiple tools.
Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service (IIS) lets you deploy, configure, and operate servers, VMs, storage, and networking throughout their lifecycles from one place, anytime and anywhere.
“In addition to protecting your organization from potential cyberattacks, infrastructure lifecycle management makes for a more efficient enterprise, delivers a better end user experience for consumers, and identifies where your organization needs to expand its infrastructure.”
“Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Best Practices,” IT Infrastructure
2. Bolster security
Security threats multiply as the number of devices across your global infrastructure increases. Can you afford to deploy compromised infrastructure or react slowly to ongoing threats?
IIS helps you consistently deploy infrastructure using best security practices, alerts you to security threats, and helps you act swiftly to mitigate risk.
By 2025, IDC indicates 60% of infrastructure, security data, and network offerings will require cloud-based control platforms that enable extensive automation and reduce operations costs.
“Cloud’s Next Stage: The Foundation for Digital Business,” IDC Directions
“Intersight (Infrastructure Service) saves a lot of hours with the orchestration feature, being able to create custom workflows to automate all kinds of tasks, from the daily stuff to the most complex operations.”
IT Engineer and Intersight User
3. Automate configuration and provisioning
Save time manually configuring and provisioning every device individually and repeating redundant workflows.
IIS reduces redundant tasks and repetitive workflows through a drag-and-drop automation and orchestration designer with pre-built configuration and provisioning tasks and workflows. IIS also integrates automation from third-party tools.
4. Monitor, track, and control energy use
How valuable would it be to shift from being unaware of the energy consumed by your data center to having complete visibility into the power and energy consumption of your servers?
IIS helps you monitor, track, and control power and energy use of your entire Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) server fleet.