Cisco organize again, folds net management into new cloud group

Cisco organize again, folds net management into new cloud group

Cisco continued to tweak its internal organizational structure; however, it completed the mass of main restructuring earlier this year. Cisco has merged its Network Management Technology (NMTG) with two other business units and folded a new organization
to be headed by CIO Rebecca Jacoby. It was revealed in the memo acquired by the Network World.

The memo authored by the CTO and Senior Vice President of Engineering Padmassree Warrior and Pankaj Patel, Senior Vice President and general manager of Cisco’s service group, states that Cisco has formed the Cloud and System Management Technology Group under
Jacoby to align engineering and services in an effort to gain market share in cloud, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS).

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CSMTG will include NMTG, which is now under the direction of Vice President and General Manager Jamie Lerner, as well as Cisco’s Intelligent Automation Services business unit and Service Delivery Platform operations. The memo did not state the status of
Jesper Andersen, senior vice president of NMTG, who landed at Cisco three years ago from Oracle.

Andersen is still listed in his most recent role on Cisco’s Executive Bio site.

The rationale for naming Jacoby to head the new group, meanwhile, stems from her cross-organizational experience as Cisco’s CIO, a role she will retain.

The Cisco memo states that this role will bring alive their capability to deliver integrated products, services and software more than any other role.

"We needed some very specific skills for this role — strong leadership; the ability to influence and manage across boundaries; an understanding of infrastructure, operations and application deployments across Enterprise and Service Provider customers; and
product, software and services knowledge. Rebecca is uniquely positioned to take on this role due to the synergies she has built between IT and Engineering over years of Cisco-on-Cisco deployments."

By aligning services and engineering under CSMTG, Cisco is expectant to achieve several goals, according to the memo. They include:

Build advanced management and automation capabilities in Cisco software by utilizing operational practice knowledge found in the company’s Advanced Services delivery teams.

Create IaaS, PaaS solutions based upon Cisco’s hardware, software and service components.

Leverage the Advanced Services teams to sell management and automation solutions in cloud and legacy environments across all market segments.

Cisco did not respond to inquiries about the memo in time for this posting. As CIO, Jacoby will continue to report to Randy Pond, Executive vice president of operation, processes and systems, but she will also report to Warrior and Patel in her new role
as head of CSMTG.

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