Qumulo, the universal scale storage leader which debuted as a visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File and Object Storage, is launching operations in the EMEA region as it works to revolutionise data storage for European enterprises. The US headquartered company, which is on track to more than double its year-on-year growth, will launch Europe’s first and only file-based storage system that runs in the data center and the cloud at scale.  

Qumulo File Fabric (QF2) is now available to EMEA businesses. QF2 is a modern, highly scalable file storage system that runs in the data center and in the public cloud. It enables businesses to store, manage and access file-based data with no practical limits on the number or size of files. It provides the highest performance and low cost compared with legacy storage solutions. QF2 also provides businesses with the ability to monitor their data in real-time, gain control and visibility, and lessen the administrative burden of managing the data footprint at scale.

The company has appointed seasoned leadership in the EMEA region; Thore Rabe and Stefan Radtke. Thore will serve as Qumulo’s Vice President/General Manager, EMEA. Stefan will serve as Qumulo’s Technical Director, EMEA. Thore previously held the position of EMEA Vice President of Dell EMC Isilon and Stefan previously served as EMEA CTO at the same company.  

“File-based data is the engine of the modern enterprise and the need to maximize its value to drive innovation and accelerate progress has never been more critical,” said Bill Richter, CEO of Qumulo. “Customers across North America have taken advantage of our solutions to modernise their data centers and leverage the public cloud. Following overwhelming demand, we are delighted to establish local operations to bring these benefits to customers across EMEA.”

Qumulo and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will extend their partnership to serve the file-based storage needs of their customers in selected countries. In June of 2017, Qumulo announced it joined the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Complete program. The program added Qumulo solutions to the HPE ecosystem, giving enterprise customers the opportunity to purchase complete, validated HPE and Qumulo solutions directly from HPE and its resellers.  

“HPE and Qumulo already have a track record in the USA and Canada, serving enterprises with data intensive file-based workloads. Working together, has enabled HPE to deliver Qumulo File Fabric to customers who have a need for a high performance file storage system at Petabyte scale,” said Milan Shetti, General Manager of Storage and Big Data, HPE. “Having rolled this out successfully in North America, I am pleased that Qumulo will now serve selected countries in Europe.”

The launch comes as modern businesses in the region struggle to scale their storage systems, while seeking global reach and flexible computing. Many businesses use legacy storage appliances that predate the onset of cloud computing and today’s requirements for global file accessibility. QF2 transcends the cost, performance and scale limitations of previous file storage technologies while offering the flexibility of running in the cloud or in the data center. Optimised for the latest standard hardware, such as NVMe SSDs, modern CPUs and dense HDDs, QF2’s built-in, block-based tiering of hot and cold data delivers flash performance at hard-disk prices. QF2 is the only solution that stores billions of files with real-time visibility and control. 

Qumulo will open offices in the UK and Germany to service market demand. It will also open a 24/7 support centre in the UK to accompany the existing centres it has across two-time zones in the US. Additionally, a growing ecosystem of channel partners is joining Qumulo to deliver QF2 to enterprises. These partners include Qvest and ConCat in Germany and Gegobyte and Escape Technology in the UK.

Qumulo has already seen success with QF2 in the North American market, where it has helped companies to find a more effective way of storing the data they create. The company was named in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.

Avaya today announced advancements in delivering and integrating artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into contact centres to improve the customer experience.  Avaya Ava™, a new AI architecture including natural language processing, machine learning and innovative analytics, enables effortless customer engagement through social media and messaging platforms.

Avaya Ava is a cloud, messaging-agnostic solution that offers new AI capabilities for social messaging integration and automation of digital interactions. Avaya Ava was originally introduced as part of Avaya’s online support community, helping customers and partners get their questions answered about Avaya solutions without human intervention. Ava has now evolved to include AI capabilities, complementing Avaya’s Customer Experience portfolio and is the ideal solution for any contact centre to modernise their infrastructure with AI.  

Avaya Ava can engage with customers using social media, chat and messaging channels, and provide immediate self-service support as well as deliver the customer to agent based customer care.  When handing off to agents, Ava transfers the full context of the upfront automated experience, eliminating the need for customers to repeat information and steps already taken.

Capable of AI mining via multi-lingual, natural language identification, contextual and sentiment analysis, Avaya Ava extends scale and efficiency to customer care operations. Ava can support 34 languages and Facebook, Twitter, WeChat and LINE, with more to be added as the solution evolves. The open API approach enables integration with third party AI solutions from the Avaya A.I.Connect initiative. 

The announcement of Avaya Ava comes on the heels of Avaya’s announcement of a definitive agreement to acquire Spoken, a leading innovator in Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) solutions for enterprise customers and a provider of transformative real-time customer experience management applications built on conversational artificial intelligence. Spoken’s specialised agent quality software applications and services as well as IntelligentWire solutions use artificial intelligence and deep learning technologies on live voice conversations to reduce after-call work, drive more intelligent responses and gain deeper insight into customer sentiment and experience.

Today Avaya announced that more end users can realise the benefits of true unified communications, now enabled by compelling enhancements to its signature user experience, Avaya Equinox®. Already known for creating seamless communication experiences across applications, browsers, and the devices people use every day in and out of the enterprise, Avaya Equinox delivers new features and capabilities for team collaboration and conferencing.  Avaya also announced a series of enhancements to its desktop experience, including both new devices and services. 

As a single UC application, Avaya Equinox makes employees more productive with its “Top of Mind” home screen. Here, users have a simplified view of their day and intuitive access to one-touch calling, messaging, audio and video conferencing, as well as web collaboration. Avaya Equinox now delivers a fully integrated user experience that is connected and consistent across the Avaya portfolio and all deployment models: on-premises, hybrid and cloud. Updates to Avaya Equinox include:

• Enhancements to Avaya Equinox Meetings Online, a cloud-based meeting and conferencing service for customers that can be deployed with or without an Avaya infrastructure. The economical, pay-as-you-go cloud model offers the same capabilities as an on-premises deployment, making it easy to take a hybrid approach and mix and match between the two.  A new, zero download option via webRTC enables pure browser-based video and web conferencing in addition to app support on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices. Equinox Meetings Online now offers enhanced web collaboration with an interactive white board and true application sharing. Equinox Meetings Online supports 50 fully interactive participants and 500 viewers for streaming. Participants can use the unique “slider” to review meeting content previously presented without disrupting the presenter.
• The extension of Avaya Equinox benefits to mid-market Avaya IP Office™ users to get the same contemporary experience of Avaya Equinox as those with Avaya Aura®.
• The introduction of Avaya Equinox Attendant, a PC-based software application that allows attendants and receptionists to efficiently manage inbound calls. Equinox Attendant enhances customer service and brings the power of unified communications to front-desk operators with capabilities such as ‘Look Ahead’ with presence services, quick access to the most common destinations, suggested call routing, and contextual information that allows the operator to provide a more personalised touch.

With more than 100 million endpoints and desktops sold to date, Avaya also introduced a series of new devices and services designed to enhance the Avaya Desktop Experience, including:

• Essential Experience - Avaya is adding new designs for its industry-leading desktop phones with the J139, J169 and J179, for a state-of-the-art user experience as well as Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity.
• Vantage Experience - Avaya has enriched the open Android-based Vantage portfolio with a new device for users that prefer a traditional keypad, support for Avaya IP Office  for the midmarket customer, and enhanced Avaya Equinox integration.     
• Conferencing Experience - The new Avaya CU-360 Collaboration Device provides an easy to set up and use, all-in-one video collaboration experience that delivers the benefits of the corporate conference room into smaller spaces. The Avaya CU-360 also provides additional conveniences, such as wireless device connectivity and control and access to cloud-based applications.
• New Device Deployment and Management Services – These new service offerings include Avaya Device Enrollment Services, which provides two step automated device provisioning, and Avaya Endpoint Management Services, which covers software, configuration, application control, inventory management, and remote troubleshooting and monitoring.

Avaya Equinox Attendant and Avaya Equinox Meetings Online are currently available and Avaya Equinox on IP Office is expected in the second quarter of 2018. Avaya Desktop Experience devices and services will also be available in the second quarter of 2018. 

These Avaya Equinox updates, new devices and service enhancements demonstrate Avaya’s commitment to delivering consolidated real-time and non-real-time multimedia communications which enable faster responsiveness, increased productivity, and more informed decision-making, all while reducing IT management and operating costs.

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, announces its new Subscription ManagementDiscovery Service solution. This initiative sets new standards of freedom for all users of eSIM-connected devices, such as smartwatches, tablets, connected PCs and many more. It simplifies the customer's experience of connecting a device 'out-of-the-box' to the cellular network with the offer of their choice. Users simply select their preferred mobile operator, purchase a subscription which is instantly downloaded and activated over-the-air.

Operated by Gemalto, and leveraging its SAS certified environment, this service makes eSIM activation seamless and works for any device. In the case of devices sold independently from a mobile subscription, it removes the hassle of issuing a QR code for activation and automatically gives users the freedom to choose their network. For operator-branded devices, it automatically connects to the operator's back-end to activate the eSIM. This makes adoption of eSIM technology a lot simpler for end-users.

What does Discovery Service offer device makers and mobile operators?  

Based on the mobile industry's specifications the 'Root Discovery Service' concept, offered as a cloud service ^* by Gemalto enables manufacturers to market innovative devices with a straightforward connectivity set-up experience including the choice of mobile subscription. Mobile operators will have the opportunity to expand their business across a new population of connected devices. 

 "The Discovery Service will boost eSIM adoption by OEMs and mobile operators as our solution facilitates the service deployment" said Benoit Jouffrey, vice president Connected & Embedded Solutions for Gemalto. "Part of our On-Demand Connectivity offer, this revolutionary service fits into our broader vision to enable a secure^* and seamless digital customer journey." 

European payments company Trustly has today announced a partnership with the Latvian national airline airBaltic.

The agreement will make it possible for airBaltic’s customers to make online purchases for tickets and services directly from their bank account, using secure digital authentication methods supported by customers’ banks and facilitated by Trustly’s payment service.

Starting today, Trustly’s cross-border online banking payments are available for airBaltic’s customers in the UK, Sweden, Germany, Estonia and Poland. Six more markets will benefit from airBaltic’s new payment system during the first half of 2018. By aggregating bank transfer payment propositions through one partner, Trustly, airBaltic is able to focus on reaching new customers in new markets while centralizing financial settlement and reconciliation reporting.

Trustly’s service offers customers a secure and easy-to-use way to pay online, reducing the likelihood of customers abandoning initiated purchases. For the e-merchant, transaction and operational costs along with the risk for fraud is reduced, and the need for multiple payment intermediaries removed.

Jouni Oksanen, SVP E-commerce, Sales and Marketing of airBaltic, said: “Offering multiple payment methods is not only critical to lowering the purchase barriers and to increasing sales for airBaltic, but also to improving our service for customers, giving them the possibility to choose the payment method that is easiest and best fits their individual needs. The future of serving customers shopping for flights and simplifying their experience is the main focus for airBaltic in all digital channels.”

Mike Parkinson, Director of Travel at Trustly, said: “We are delighted to partner with airBaltic to deliver an immediate, localised payment proposition in both its home markets and developing markets on the airBaltic network. With the vast majority of consumers now researching and buying their flights online, it’s crucial for travel websites and online merchants to provide clear pricing and secure payment methods tailored to their customers’ preferences or they face seeing them head elsewhere.”

TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, today announced the appointment of Matt Quinn as chief operating officer (COO). Quinn previously served as executive vice president (EVP), products & technology, and chief technology officer (CTO). In addition, Nelson Petracek has been promoted to fill the role of global CTO. Both Quinn and Petracek provide TIBCO and its customers unmatched industry and technological expertise.

“We’re pleased to announce the promotions of Matt Quinn and Nelson Petracek,” said Murray Rode, chief executive officer, TIBCO. “As we ramp up the TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud, Matt’s role expands as COO, adding to his current responsibilities in leading all technology and product development to also include the operational aspects of running and growing our cloud business. Meanwhile, we continue to see opportunities for our customers in rapid developments around new technology, from cloud and microservices to blockchain and artificial intelligence. Nelson brings the appropriate deep, technical knowledge and broad customer relationships to bear as our new global CTO.”

Starting as a developer at TIBCO in 1997, Quinn served in a variety of technical roles, becoming CTO in 2010, and then EVP in 2014, responsible for all product engineering and support. Throughout his 20-plus years at TIBCO, Quinn has led large-scale transformations in engineering’s organisational structure and product strategy.

“Our customer-first mindset is one of the many reasons I’m proud to be part of the TIBCO team,” said Quinn. “When customers choose TIBCO, I want to ensure that they receive a high-performing service that propels the growth of their businesses. I am excited to continue expanding and innovating to meet every customer need.”

Petracek has been with TIBCO for 11 years. Most recently, he led the Strategic Enablement Group, managing a team focused on various areas of innovation, including cloud, low-code applications, blockchain, and natural language processing. Prior to his tenure at TIBCO, Petracek was a senior director for Informatica Corporation’s Emerging Technologies Group, where he was responsible for growing the company’s global technology footprint.

“I’m honoured to be a part of such a forward-thinking company,” said Petracek. “Working at the forefront of technology innovation and serving the dual needs of our corporate strategy and customer advocacy, I’m excited to help craft TIBCO’s technology strategy as we continue to build valuable tools for businesses.”

Coupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP), a leader in business spend management (BSM), today announced its first major cloud platform update of the year.  Coupa’s Release 20 (R20) helps customers spend smarter by providing additional visibility and control of spending for business services and with the expanded use of community intelligence for supplier insights.

"Coupa’s significant investment in new R&D is certainly paying off with new approaches to decades old spend management problems,” said Jimmy LeFever, director, research and consulting at PayStream Advisors. “Adding services spend coverage and giving customers new and actionable data insights are key market differentiators.”

As with past Coupa platform updates, R20 was designed through a collaborative approach that involves extensive customer input. “Airbus worked in close partnership with Coupa as part of the Services Maestro product advisory board to design a unified complex services solution from start to finish, which has successfully met the criteria of the business users,”  said Werner Miehle, head of Airbus group commodities related processes.

Key elements of R20 include:

Reduced Supply Chain Risk (Community Intelligence)

Many businesses struggle to determine the best suppliers for them due to a lack of reliable information at their disposal. Internet searches yield limited information often containing a significant amount of marketing prose published by the supplier. To address the problem, Coupa expands its use of Community Intelligence to help customers improve supplier results, reduce supply chain risk, and make faster data-driven decisions.  

For the first time, real-time transactional spend usage across Coupa’s customer base of more than $570 billion in cumulative spend under management will be leveraged to yield global supplier insights. Accessible throughout platform applications such as Coupa Sourcing and Procurement, the new supplier insights capability delivers a new level of prescriptive intelligence for Coupa customers.   

Control and Visibility of Business Services Spend (Services Maestro)

Services Maestro is a new platform application that helps organisations manage the spend associated with complex services. Customers benefit through automated contract compliance, improved supplier experiences, and greater visibility into spend - both goods and complex services - on one unified spend management platform.

"Despite the high (and inceasing!) levels of enterprise spend on complex services, the extent of procurement solutions in this area has been conspicuously limited. Coupa's Services Maestro solution strategy suggests how the complex services category can be attacked from the solid vantage point of eProcurement and unified indirect spend. Where that can go, it's too early to say. But there's no question: it's a big, untamed jungle out there and a green-field opportunity for solution providers like Coupa," said Andrew Karpie, lead analyst, Spend Matters.

Complex services, such as consultants and fixed-price deliverables, is often a large category of spend in many organisations. These organisations may negotiate service rate cards, define deliverables, and come to agreement on terms and conditions with their suppliers. However, once work starts, there is often no easy way to track if a supplier is, for example, meeting service level agreements (SLAs) or determine if the timesheets and related invoices conform to negotiated rates. Services Maestro was created to help eliminate these challenges.

Coupa Accelerate

Coupa works very closely with customers to deliver more value and solve real world business problems. For early payment discounts, customers often wanted to offer discounts but had limited success when implementing these discount programs. Often the reasons cited for lack of success were lack of supplier adoption and the effort to get suppliers to accept the program.

Coupa Accelerate is an innovative new platform application that allows customers to quickly achieve a return on their payables by accepting invoice discounts in return for paying suppliers earlier. The application leverages the power of the community to drive better results for each customer using the program. Suppliers do business with many of their customers using the same Coupa platform. These suppliers can set up their Coupa preferences (e.g., SMS alerts) that are applied to all their customers

With Coupa Accelerate, suppliers can update their early payment discount preferences as well so discount preferences can be automatically applied to any customer using Coupa Accelerate. Suppliers are in full control and able to set preferences any time needed.

Additional Platform Features

R20 also adds more than 50 new features across the platform and cover areas such as e-invoicing compliance capabilities in Mexico, expense management pre-trip approvals, contract request pre-approvals, and the ability toscreen suppliers against government restricted lists. Coupa extends support for regulatory compliance with the ability to manage anti-corruption regulations by screening suppliers against restricted lists provided by government entities such as the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In addition, customers now have the ability to calibrate supplier risk scoring to match their risk management priorities.

“Starting the year with this extensive platform release, on the heels of our sizable September 2017 update, clearly demonstrates our clear focus on rapid innovation,” said Raja Hammoud, senior vice president of products at Coupa. “We are thankful to all the customers and partners that have shared their knowledge and time to help prioritise new capabilities with an eye to delivered value. It’s certainly a special relationship we have created, and we look forward to many new innovations in the coming year.”

Exactpro Systems today announces that it was engaged by Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) to deliver functional and non-functional testing for Astana International Exchange (AIX), the nascent new high-tech exchange platform in Kazakhstan. The new exchange was created within the AIFC in cooperation with a shareholder and strategic partner from among the leading stock exchanges - Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE). AIX is based on best international practice and powered by Nasdaq Matching Engine under a technology deal between the AIFC and Nasdaq.
 
Kazakhstan’s largest companies turn to international capital markets to meet their financing needs. With rapid economic growth and a highly attractive pipeline of IPOs/SPOs in the Central Asia, there is an increasing need for a liquid, well-balanced and efficient regional stock market with a broad range of financial instruments whose successful implementation is crucial for the AIFC.
 
Exactpro specializes in quality assurance and software testing for market infrastructures and systems that process wholesale financial products across asset classes. This includes trading systems, risk management, market surveillance, securities data distribution, and post-trade platforms worldwide

Cisco today announced powerful assurance innovations across its intent-based networking portfolio that will help IT teams shift from reactive to proactive. It will address the 43 percent of time IT spends troubleshooting, while making IT operations more proactive, agile and automated. The software innovations represent significant advancements in mathematical modeling and contextual insights, accelerating Cisco's strategy to reinvent the network for the digital era.

Over the past few years, the explosion of devices, adoption of cloud, and exponential growth of security threats have challenged current approaches for building and managing networks. Cisco's vision is to create a network that anticipates operational issues, stops security threats in their tracks, and continues to learn, adapt and protect. To realize this, Cisco is driving the intent-based networking revolution by transforming the entire network, from the data center and campus, to the branch and edge.

Today, Cisco is introducing its second wave of intent-based networking innovation, with powerful assurance products spanning the networking portfolio. 

• In the data center, the Cisco Network Assurance Engine uses continuous verification of the entire network to help keep business running as intended, even as the network changes dynamically.
• In campus and branch networks, Cisco DNA Center Assurance is delivering a new level of insight and visibility to dramatically reduce the time and money IT spends troubleshooting across wired and wireless environments.
• And, for customers with distributed IT operations, the new Cisco Meraki Wireless Health reduces mean time to remediate wireless issues with rich analytics and insights.

"The network has never been more critical to business success," said David Goeckeler, executive vice president, Networking and Security Business at Cisco. "We're reinventing the network ground up to deliver a secure and intelligent platform for digital business. Today, we are taking another major step toward that ambitious goal with intent-based networking innovations designed to deliver contextual insights and assurance that will help transform IT from reactive to proactive."

Cisco's intent-based networking portfolio represents a fundamental shift away from the manual and time-intensive methods by which networks are traditionally managed. These intent-based networks capture and translate business intent into network policies, and activate them across the infrastructure. With the introduction of assurance capabilities, they can now continuously verify the network is operating as intended.

Customers globally are embracing intent-based networking. Nearly 200 customers are in early field trails with the new assurance technologies, including Robert Bosch GmbH, REWE Group, Houston Methodist Hospital and Scotiabank. More than 1,100 customers are deploying the recently announced Catalyst 9000 Series switches, with 150 running DNA Center pilots. In the data center, Cisco has more than 14,500 Nexus 9000 customers, with a 45 percent ACI attach rate.

Innovation Spanning Data Center and Enterprise Networking 
Today, Cisco is introducing three powerful new assurance products that further demonstrate how intent-based networking systems move at the speed of digital business.

In the data center network, Cisco is enabling always-on assurance through the Cisco Network Assurance Engine. By combining mathematically accurate models of the network with more than 30 years of codified domain knowledge, Cisco provides IT teams the ability to instantly pinpoint why and when the network is not acting as intended, then offer suggestions on how to address the issue. This comprehensive view into their network helps enable IT teams to:

• Predict the Impact of Changes: Make changes to the network faster and with more confidence, catching human configuration errors before they cause problems.
• Continuously Verify Network Behavior: Proactively eliminate network outages and vulnerabilities by continuously analyzing the state of the entire network.
• Assure Security Policy and Compliance: Reduce risk by assuring that security policies are being applied consistently across the network, and ensure policies are compliant with business requirements-every minute of every day.

With ACI and Tetration, Cisco provides the ability to translate application intent and activate those policies across the network. Now, with the Network Assurance Engine, Cisco is delivering the final element of intent-based networking - the assurance of intent.

In the campus and branch, Cisco is enabling 'everything as a sensor' and aggregating intelligence from the network, application, client and things to help provide IT with full context. These capabilities will dramatically reduce the 43 percent of time that IT spends troubleshooting and improve the experience for employees and customers.

Cisco DNA Center Assurance provides a 360-degree contextual view that connects all the relationships of who, what, where, when, how. Spanning wired and wireless environments, it delivers a complete picture of what is happening between users and applications with real-time, historical and predictive capabilities. DNA Center Assurance helps IT teams address three major issues:

• Problem Isolation: Get to the root cause in minutes-not days or weeks-by isolating where exactly the issue happened.
• Problem Replication: Go back in time to when an issue occurred. IT can view a complete 360 snapshot of the status of the network, user, device and application at the exact moment the issue arose.
• Problem Resolution: Proactively fix the issue through guided remediation.

With Cisco Meraki Wireless Health, IT also gains visibility and rich analytics to troubleshoot wireless issues faster and deliver a better user experience. Cisco Meraki uses a cloud-managed IT model to automate operations, simplifying the complexity of IT. Now, Meraki Wireless Health allows IT teams to quickly identify wireless anomalies, find poorly performing access point and clients, and provide actionable insights to improve the wireless experience.

Powered by network analytics and rich contextual data, Cisco Services offers new services to help customers streamline the deployment of the new assurance solutions. From advisory and implementation, through optimization and managed services, Cisco and its partners are helping customers accelerate their journey to truly intent-based networks.

Customer Quotes
Robert Bosch GmbH, Jan Holzmann, Team Lead for Data Center Network Operations
"We are constantly bringing on new applications and expanding our data center capacity as we expand our business. The Cisco Network Assurance Engine helps enable a new level of quality for our application migrations. With a detailed understanding of the policy model and proactive verification of all changes, Cisco Network Assurance Engine can help us greatly reduce the risk of production outages and accelerate our timelines."

Houston Methodist Hospital, Manuel Ortiz III, Senior Wireless Engineer
"DNA Center helps me find problems proactively, before users contact me. With a mostly wireless network, I'm able to find devices throughout the network and quickly solve any problems with the help of analytics."

Axians Nordic, Erik Sohlman, Senior Manager and CTO
"As a Cloud Service Provider, our business depends on network availability and delivering on customer SLAs. We are always looking for modern technologies to manage our multiple data centers and remain an industry leader.  Cisco Network Assurance Engine's approach of 'always on assurance' for our network and services will make our operating model more proactive and help enable us to remain as the best-in-class service provider to our customers."

REWE Group, Hans Vasters, Senior Network Architect
"Cisco DNA Center allows the networking team to focus on our core projects and give more responsibility to the first line support team. It lets our team be proactive when it comes to resolving issues, before it becomes a problem to our users."

Scotiabank, Nicholas Yurkovich Chief Network Engineer
"The more intuitive that I can make troubleshooting, the sooner I can take the network out of the equation. With Cisco DNA Center Assurance, the Scotiabank first line support teams can now take a proactive approach to resolving wireless issues and the engineering networking teams can work on growth and forward-looking opportunities."

West Corporation, Tania Mazza, Director, Network Engineering
"At West, we run critical communications infrastructure for our customers, and as such, scale and speed are vital for our operations. Using the change verification process, we see Cisco Network Assurance Engine as a way to achieve higher levels of automation with increased certainty, allowing us to confidently move at a faster pace."

Availability

• The Cisco Network Assurance Engine is available now, initially for Cisco ACI customers, with a free, 30-day, no-commitment trial. Customers can purchase it via software subscription.
• Cisco DNA Center Assurance is available now. Customers can purchase it via the Cisco ONE subscription offer for networking.
• Cisco Meraki Wireless Health is expected to be available in early 2018. It will be included with the standard subscription for Meraki Wireless Access Points.