>>From around the globe. It's the cube present a future cloud one event, a world of opportunities brought to you by Cisco. >>Okay. We're here with Thomas Shabbat. Who's the vice president of product management, AKA VP of all things, data center, networking, SDN cloud, you name it in that category. Welcome Thomas. Good to see you again. >>Hey Sam. Yes. Thanks for having me on. >>Yeah, it's our pleasure. Okay. Let's get right into observability. When you think about observability visibility, infrastructure monitoring, problem resolution across the network, how does cloud change thing? In other words, what are the challenges that networking teams are currently facing as they're moving to the cloud and trying to implement hybrid cloud? >>Yeah. Yeah. Uh, visibility as always is very, very important. And it's perfect. It's not just, it's not just the network team is actually the application team too. Right. And as you pointed out, the, the underlying impetus to what's going on here is the data center is wherever the data is. And I think we set as a couple of years back and really what happens, the, the applications are going to be deployed, uh, in different locations, right? Whether it's in a public cloud, whether it's on prem, uh, and they're built differently, right? They are built as microservices. They might actually be distributed as well at the same application. And so what that really means is you need as an operator as well as actually a user, a bit of visibility where I, my pieces and you need to be able to correlate between where the Apres and what the underlying network is. That is a place at these different locations. So you have actually a good knowledge why the app is running so fantastic or sometimes not. So I think that's, that's really the problem statement, uh, what, what we tried to go after was the observability. >>Okay. Let's double click on that. So, so a lot of customers telling me that you got to stare at log files until your eyes bleed. And then you've got to bring in guys with lab coats who have PhDs to figure all this stuff out. So you just described, it's getting more complex, but at the same time, you have to simplify things. So how are you doing that? >>Correct. So what we basically have done is we have this fantastic product that is called thousand eyes. And so what does DAS is basically as the name, which I think is a fantastic, uh, fantastic name. You have these sensors everywhere. Um, and you can have a good correlation on, uh, links between if I run a, a site to a site from a site to a cloud, from a cloud to cloud, and you basically can measure what is the performance of these links? And so what we're, what we're doing here is we're actually extending the footprint of these thousand eyes agent, right. Instead of just having them, uh, in Virgin material clouds, we are now embedding them with the Cisco network devices, right. We announced this was the catalyst of 9,000. And we're extending this now to our, um, uh, 8,000 catalyst product line for the, for the sun products, as well as to the data center products, the next line. Um, and so what you see is, is there a half a thing you have sounds nice, you get a million insights and you get a billion dollar off improvements, uh, for how your applications run. And this is really, um, the, the power of tying together, the footprint of what a network is with the visibility, what is going on. So you actually know the application behavior that is attached to this network. >>I see. So, okay. So as the cloud evolves, it expands, it connects, you're actually enabling thousand eyes to go further, not just confined within a single data center location, but out to the network across clouds, et cetera, >>Correct. Wherever the network is, you're going to have a thousand eyes sensor and you can bring this together and you can quite frankly pick, if you want to say, Hey, I have my application in public cloud provider, a, uh, domain one, and I have another one domain, two, I can do monitor that link. I can also monitor, I have a user that has a campus location or branch location. I kind of put an agent there and then I can monitor the connectivity from that branch location, all the way to the let's say, corporations, that data center or headquarter, or to the cloud. And I can have these probes and just to be, have visibility and saying, Hey, if there's a performance, I know where the issue is. And then I obviously can use all the other sorts that we have to address those. >>All right, let's talk about the cloud operating model. Everybody tells us that, you know, it's, it's really the change in the model that drives big numbers in terms of ROI. And I want you to maybe address how you're bringing automation and dev ops to this world of, of hybrid and specifically, how is Cisco enabling it organizations to move to a cloud operating model as that cloud definition expands? >>Yeah, no, that's, that's another interesting topic beyond the observability. So really, really what we're seeing. And this has gone on for, uh, I want to say couple of years now, it's really this transition from, uh, operating infrastructure as a network and team more like a service, like what you would expect from a cloud provider, right? This is really around the network team, offering services like a cloud provided us. And that's really what the meaning is of cloud operating model, right? Where this is infrastructure running in your own data center, whether that's linking that infrastructure was whatever runs on the public cloud is operating at like a cloud service. And so we are on this journey for a while. So one of the examples, um, that we have removing some of the control software assets that customers today can deploy on prem, uh, to, uh, an instance that they can deploy in a, in a cloud provider and just basically instantiate saying, stay, and then just run it that way. >>Right? And so the latest example for this is what we have our identity service engine that is now unlimited availability available on AWS. And we will become available mid this year. Also data, we, as a visual, as a service, you can just go to marketplace, you can load it there and now increase. You can start running your policy control in a cloud, managing your X's infrastructure in your data center and your, uh, wherever you want to do it. And so that's just one example of how we see, uh, our customers' network operations team taking advantage of a cloud operating model, or basically deploying their, their tools where they need them and when they need them. So >>What's the scope of, I hope I'm saying it right, ice, right. ISC. I think they call it ice. What's the scope of that? Like for instance, 10 an effect my, or even, you know, address simplify my security approach. >>Absolutely. That's now coming to, what is the beauty of the product itself? Yes. Uh, what you can do is really is like, there's a lot of people talking, what I, how do I get to a zero trust approach to networking? How do I get to a much more dynamic, flexible segmentation in my infrastructure, again, whether this is on only campus X, as well as the data center and ice helps you there, you can use this as a point to, to find your policies and then any connect from there, right? In this particular case, we would instead ice in a cloud as a software, uh, load you now can connect and say, Hey, I want to manage and program my network infrastructure and my data center, or my campus going to the respect of controller with it's DNA center for campus, or whether does this, the, uh, ACI policy controller. And so, yes, what'd you get as an effect out of this is a very elegant way to automatically manage in one place. What does my policy, and then drive the right segmentation in your network infrastructure. Okay. >>Zero trust. It was pre pandemic. It was kind of a buzzword. Now it's become a mandate. I, I wonder if we could talk about yet, right. I mean, so I wonder, could talk about cloud native apps. Uh, you got all these developers that are working inside organizations, they're maintaining legacy apps, they're connecting their data to systems in the cloud. They're sharing that data. These developers they're rapidly advancing their skillsets. How is Cisco enabling its infrastructure to support this world of cloud native making infrastructure more responsive and agile for application developers? >>Yeah. So you were going to, the talk we saw was the visibility. We talked about the operating model, how our network operates, actually want to use tools going forward. Now the next step to visits, it's not just the operator. How do they actually, where do they want to put these tools? All they, how they interact with this tools as well as quite frankly, is how let's say a dev ops team on application team or a cloud team also wants to take advantage off the programmability of the underlying network. And this is where we moving into this whole cloud native discussion, right. Which has really two angles to, is the cloud native way, how applications are being built. And then there is the cloud native way, how you interact with infrastructure, right? And so what we have done as we're putting in place, the on-ramps between clouds, uh, and then on top of it, we're exposing for all these tools, API APIs that can be used and leveraged by standard cloud tools or, uh, uh, cloud native tools, right? >>And one example or two examples we always have. And again, we're on this journey for a while is, uh, both Ansible, uh, script capabilities, uh, that access from red hat, as well as, uh, Hashi Terraform capabilities that you can orchestrate across infrastructure to drive infrastructure automation. And what, what really stands behind it is what either the networking operations team wants to do, or even the app team. They want to be able to describe the application as a code and then drive automatically or programmatically in sedation of infrastructure needed for that application. And so what you see us doing is providing all these, uh, capability as an interface for all our network tools, right? Whether this is ice. What I just mentioned, whether this is our, uh, DCN controllers in the data center, uh, whether these are the controllers in the, uh, in the campus for all of those, we have cloud native interfaces. So, uh, operator or a dev ops team can actually interact directly with that infrastructure the way they would do today with everything that lives in the cloud, or was everything, how they built the application, >>You can't even have the conversation of, of op cloud operating model that includes and comprises on-prem without programmable infrastructure. So that's, that's very important. Last question, Thomas are customers actually using this? They made the announcement today. Are there any examples of customers out there doing this? >>We, we do have a lot of customers out there, um, that are moving down a path and using the D D Cisco high-performance infrastructure, also on the compute side, as well as on the next site. Uh, one of the customers, uh, and this is like an interesting case, is the Rakuten, uh, record in is a large type of provider, um, uh, mobile 5g operator, uh, in Japan and expanding and as in different countries. Uh, and so people, something, Oh, cloud, you must be talking about the public cloud provider, the big, the big three or four. Uh, but if you look at it as a lot of the tackles service providers are actually cloud providers as well and expanding very rapidly. And so we're actually very, um, proud to work together was, was Rakuten and in help them building a high performance, uh, data center infrastructure based on how they gig and actually phone a gig, uh, to drive their deployment to it's a 5g mobile cloud infrastructure, which is, which is, um, where the whole, the whole world where traffic is going. And so it's really exciting to see these development and see the power of automation, visibility, uh, together with the high performance infrastructure, becoming reality and delivering actually, uh, services. Yes. >>Some great points you're making there, but yes, you have the big four clouds are enormous, but then you have a lot of actually quite large clouds, telcos that are either proximate to those clouds or they're in places where those hyperscalers may not have a presence and building out their own infrastructure. So, so that's a great case study, uh, Thomas, Hey, great. Having you on. Thanks so much for spending some time with us. >>Yeah. The same here. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. >>Thank you for watching everybody. This is Dave Volante for the cube, the leader in tech event coverage.