Friday, February 9, 2018

Cisco SDA, is it as great as they claim?

Having attended early test drives, spoken to the people pushing it and read the documentation/CVD. I'm still not convinced. The concerns I have are:

  • Scalability
  • Reliance on a Cisco GUI tool
  • Licensing
  • Cost
  • Vendor lock in
  • Stability

Additionally, it seems many of the problems SDA solves are not major for us. As an example, configuration deployment/automation is already achievable on many existing systems.

I know it's early days, but does anyone here have any real world operational experience with Cisco's SDA solution? Does it really make life that much easier? I'd be interested to hear your experiences.



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