Cisco Systems

CISCO Data Center Automation

Composite Score

7.6 /10

CX Score

8.1 /10

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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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Awards & Recognition

CISCO Data Center Automation won the following awards in the Data Center Automation category

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Latest Award, 2024

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2022

CISCO Data Center Automation Ratings

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82 Likeliness to Recommend

2
Since last award

93 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love CISCO Data Center Automation?

0% Negative

10% Neutral

90% Positive

Pros

Saves Time
Enables Productivity
Respectful
Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 79

Server Configuration Monitoring

Task Scheduling

Discovery

Process Automation

Remediation

Task Monitoring

Application Provisioning

Backup

Audit Trail

Patching Automation

Integration w/3rd Party Tools

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 78

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

CISCO Data Center Automation Reviews

Lawrence B.

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Insurance
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Apr 2024

Unique Features.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2023

A reliable and scalable solution

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Cisco Data Center ; Features and capabilities

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

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

CISCO Data Center Automation

What is CISCO Data Center Automation?

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Awards & Recognition

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

CISCO Data Center Automation Ratings

82 Likeliness to Recommend

2 Since last award

93 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love CISCO Data Center Automation?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Server Configuration Monitoring Monitor server configuration changes, and remediate drifting from configuration requirements.

Task Scheduling Scheduling maintenance tasks.

Discovery Automated discovery and identification of devices and associated applications on the network.

Process Automation The automation of the sequence of tasks within a process, to be executed without manual intervention.

Remediation Expedited event management (e.g., automate remediation of alerts due to exceeding defined thresholds).

Task Monitoring Scheduling maintenance and monitoring tasks.

Application Provisioning Includes Deployment, Configuration, and Discovery of Packaged Software, Database & Middleware Platforms

Backup Automation of data backup process

Audit Trail Logging and tracking of all system changes at the transaction level.

Patching Automation The automated deployment and installation of server patches

Integration w/3rd Party Tools Integration with 3rd party tools related to data center and server management natively or through APIs.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

CISCO Data Center Automation Reviews

Lawrence B.

Unique Features.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Vikas M.

A reliable and scalable solution

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Paula W.

Cisco Data Center ; Features and capabilities

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

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Process Automation

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Task Monitoring

Application Provisioning

Backup

Audit Trail

Patching Automation

Integration w/3rd Party Tools

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