Openness, Programmability, DevOps

Software applications are the life blood of corporate enterprises. Enterprise IT departments (and Lines of Business) are under immense pressure to bring applications faster to market. To remain competitive, many businesses have either already adapted, or are on the road to adapting agile practices like DevOps so they can innovate faster and deliver time to value.

To successfully transition to DevOps practices, you need a data center infrastructure and operating system that is modernized, open, and modular with extensive programmability options. Cisco and Puppet have worked together on a solution that helps Enterprise DevOps save money and improve time to market.

You should care about this new release because you need to: 

?Reduce operational cost, and amount of time and resources required to maintain the network

?Enable a DevOps model

?Focus on innovation rather than maintaining the network

?Set up network infrastructure fast at the pace of the business

What does this release mean

Cisco NX-OS is the ideal platform to adopt because it remains as the most open and extensible operating system in the industry, with a rich ecosystem of partners who relentlessly bring new innovations. This time, Puppet brings us agentless network automation for Cisco NX-OS, the operating system for Cisco