Contributing Authors: Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Fabio Maino, Steve Wood (Cisco), Alex Lo, Ashish Verma, and Ines Envid (Google Cloud)

Cisco and Google Cloud have partnered to bridge cloud applications and enterprise networks by creating the newCisco SD-WAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloud. This solution, built around Cisco SD-WAN technology and Google Cloud, simplifies the NetOps and DevOps journey by automating the allocation of SD-WAN network resources to meet application requirements.

Modern enterprise applications are composed of multiple services deployed across on-premise and cloud environments. NetOps and DevOps teams maintain the infrastructure that hosts, connects, and delivers these services. The goal of these teams: optimize the application experience. But due to the complexity of the infrastructure and the dynamism of application flows, this can be challenging. Each time a new application is deployed, the NetOps team must collect the application requirements from the DevOps team and render them into the appropriate network policy.

In this post we look at howCisco SD-WAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloudsimplifies workflow for DevOps and NetOps, by automating the tasks needed to deliver a better application experience.

Here we focus on the benefits brought by the solution in terms of automation.  There are some benefits that we don