Prashanth Shenoy, VP of Marketing, Enterprise Networks, IoT & Developer Platform, Cisco, sits down with Dave & Stu at Cisco Live EU Barcelona 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. #CLEU #Cisco #theCUBE https://siliconangle.com/2020/02/05/ciscos-intersight-hyperflex-advance-data-management-visibility-complex-dynamic-networks-cleur/ As enterprises begin to realize that software applications are the future of business, there’s been a pivot toward becoming app-centric. This, however, is placing enormous strain on information-technology networks by exposing silos between teams and technologies, a dangerous opportunity for bad actors and a tangled mess for compliance purposes. This makes visibility within the complex network of multicloud, edge computing, and on-prem increasingly important. “The world around both sides of the networking has become highly hyper-connected and highly dynamic,” said Prashanth Shenoy (pictured), vice president of marketing, enterprise networks, IoT, and developer platform at Cisco Systems Inc. “How do you manage this dynamic environment? How do you set the policy? How do you guarantee an application experience? So this has been a very challenging environment.” To navigate this extremely complex world, automation must be key, according to Shenoy. For every dollar that Cisco’s customers spend on building a network, they spend $3 managing and monitoring the network. And more IT staff just isn’t going to cut it. “We live in a world where repetitive tasks should be done by machines and not human beings, ” Shenoy stated. “It’s happened in the rest of [our] lives, and networks operations is just one part of that. So the concept of controller-led architectures … is now being applied to this world of intent-based networking. But we also get the data to provide you insights on how things are behaving and how to take actions before it happens.” Shenoy spoke with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman, co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Cisco Live event in Barcelona. In separate interviews, Todd Brannon, senior director of data center marketing at Cisco, spoke with Vellante and Miniman, and Fabio Gori, senior director of cloud solution marketing at Cisco, and Eugene Kim, global product marketing manager of data center computing and storage solutions at Cisco, spoke with Miniman and co-host John Furrier. (* Disclosure below.) Watch the complete video interview below with Prashanth Shenoy below: