Category: Software

Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking and IT technologies, dedicated to helping people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Cisco’s IT manages one of the industry’s largest and most diverse software development organizations. Challenge: Transform Continuous Delivery to Speed the Shift to the Cloud This is a story of a large transformation – transforming the way a large organization delivers software in order to respond better to their customers. For the full story, download the document here. In 2018, Cisco launched an ambitious initiative to transform their IT from a traditional “on-prem first” model to a modern, agile, cloud-native architecture. The goals were to improve their ability to react quickly to market demands and to further their competitive advantage. Achieving speed in software delivery was critical for Cisco to be able to build and enhance cloud-native applications quickly and to meet their innovation goals. The previous software delivery practices were not able to keep up with the scale, speed, or flexibility requirements of the new model.