9. Second Cisco Plus Xaas Offer Launched  

The company in June took to RSA 2022 in June to launch its second, and highly anticipated Cisco Plus Xaas offer: Cisco Plus Secure Connect Now.

Secure Connect Now, available now in several countries, is a unified security and networking offering. The solution gives partners and enterprises a “turnkey” solution for the quick deployment of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) that can be operated and managed through the cloud on an as-a-service subscription, Jeetu Patel, executive vice president and general manager of Security and Collaboration at Cisco, told CRN just ahead of the announcement. Cisco Plus Secure Connect Now has been built on a foundation of Cisco’s cloud-first Meraki platform and is accessible via the Meraki dashboard. The offering contains Meraki SD-WAN and Cisco Umbrella security functions.

The latest Cisco Plus offer joins Cisco’s first XaaS offer; Cisco Plus Hybrid Cloud, which includes Cisco’s entire data center compute, networking and storage portfolio and was launched at the end of 2021.