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(TASK-30) ==> Use-case of the Cisco Company using OpenShift

Challenges Cisco wants to over-come:

Planning and preparing for disaster recovery and business continuity are important tasks for any enterprise. Many businesses focus their efforts on disruptions to the network and IT environment because these disruptions can have a significant impact on business productivity, profitability, customer relations, and shareholder confidence.

RESULTS Cisco has gained significant benefits from its efforts to assure business resilience, including:

● Highly available networks, applications, and data systems through principles such as redundancy and creative use of new services such as VPNs.

● Enhanced application survivability through mirrored data centers and distributed content.

● Survivable voice communications through local call processing and PSTN gateways.

● Protection of network and business assets with comprehensive security mechanisms and practices that address a wide range of threats.

● Employees who can work anytime, anywhere for both daily mobility and fast relocation to alternative sites under variable and unpredictable circumstances.

How did they do that?

Difficulties like: (Which Cisco is facing & its addressed by Openshift)

1. Deploying containers across various frameworks, languages, or databases.
2. Issues with Tracking dependencies
3. Tracking and monitoring container deployment on a systemic level to avoid peak problems and to maximize productivity.
4. The excess time required to manage overall container usage across your system architecture
5. The time involved in provisioning container and performing health management checks
6. Issues with scaling applications
7. Inability to run stateful applications and cloud-native stateless applications simultaneously

Excessively complicated container provisioning procedures.

Cisco partners with Redhat for their OpenShift tool:

BENEFITS of OpenShift Container Platform (for the cisco as an enterprise level organization) :-

1. Innovate and go to market faster
2. Accelerate Application development
3. Self-service provisioning

OpenShift gives time for developers for best designing and testing applications by saving time at time managing and deploying containers orchestration. which contains its usage via openshift platform a marked efficiency advantage to chip-makers who does the manufacture of their own hardware components like cisco in terms of their routers, who utilize container for next-generation virtualization benefits they offer.

OpenShift even has the acceleration application development where they start deploying and managing containers at scale is a complicated process.

OpenShift is good at Container Orchestration, which allows in rapid provisioning, deploying, scaling, and management.

It is valuable to have rapidly evolving functions for the company which needs it like (cybersecurity firms)

where they are hackers who are looking for software flaws to exploit. when an exploit is found. cybersecurity firms are expected to respond with fixes as rapidly as possible.

Self-Service provisioning one cool feature of Openshift which helps in the developer’s productivity by allowing the team to work with tools.

This means faster creation & Deployment of applications.

Cisco had its requirement of router and firewall manufacturing to take place with actually monitoring and also the network traffic that a router or firewall gets in will be balanced by the open shift to scale it horizontally up and down.

Cisco has even lots of networking tools that are being used in the companies enterprise level to have various connection to be managed and monitoring and having the health check-ups of all those tools that are deployed. needs much time and effort to do so for any operations team and this increases the pressure on the developer to make the simpler structure as possible to limit the glitches in near future.

With Open-shift, they are really achieving the ease of managing the entire enterprise-level teams.

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