Cisco gears to boost Lanka’s digital platform during COVID-19

While the new normal has moved from physical to virtual meetings with the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the globe, Cisco, an American multinational conglomerate, is accelerating the digital platform footprint in Sri Lanka.

Recently Cisco India held a virtual media briefing, during which the Cisco SAARC, Managing Director, Sudhir Nayar emphasised, COVID-19 has taught, there is no limit to how technology can be used. He said, “Today doctors around the globe are on Cisco’s Webex platform talking to patients virtually maintaining the social distance during the pandemic. What COVID-19 has taught us is that there is no limit to how technology can be used. We have a trust deficit among people as we do not know who is infected and who is not.”

Cisco launched its Resilient Distributed Enterprise (RDE) product portfolio in Sri Lanka recently while doubling down on its partner engagements and expanding its Networking Academy programme to empower Sri Lanka’s businesses in the next normal and help achieve the government’s vision of a digitally inclusive and sustainable nation.

In this evolving ecosystem, the ability of organisations to pivot and adapt to changing market conditions will determine their success. Recognising this, small and large enterprises in Sri Lanka across its major industries like e-commerce, tourism, information technology and manufacturing are reimagining their business models to cater to newly dispersed and digital consumers. They are virtualising their processes, adopting hybrid work models and automating their supply chains to make their businesses more agile and resilient to future crises, while safeguarding their information, assets, and employees’ privacy, because the threat landscape has not only widened, but become more complex.

To make these transitions easy and seamless, Cisco is enabling the transformation of Sri Lanka’s businesses into RDE, bringing the capabilities of a resilient technology infrastructure that permits them to work from anywhere, collaborate from any device, manage from anywhere and maximise experience and productivity by serving distributed workers, applications and cloud services with security front and centre.

As part of its new RDE portfolio, Cisco is introducing SecureX, an easyto-use, cloud-native platform that unifies visibility across companies’ security portfolio, including detection of unknown threats and policy violations through security analytics for more informed actions. Cisco is enabling access to Intersight Workload Optimiser, an AI-powered software-asa-service platform that offers an intelligent level of management and allows organisations to simplify and automate IT operations. Through Intersight, firms can gain visibility to their full stack, from infrastructure to apps-on premise and in the cloud, while optimizing costs, performance, and compliance in real-time.