News summary:
- AI-powered innovations build customers' digital resilience by
uniquely combining the power of the network with industry-leading
security, observability, and data, simplifying adoption, and
offering visibility and insight across the entire digital
footprint.
- Cisco Investments has launched a $1
Billion Global AI Investment Fund to advance industry
innovation and customer readiness, and support Cisco's strategy to
connect and protect organizations in an AI-powered future.
- This year's show headlined by keynote speakers, including Cisco
Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins; 7x
Super Bowl Champion, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist Tom
Brady; and from McLaren Racing, CEO Zak
Brown and F1 Team Driver Oscar Piastri.
LAS
VEGAS, June 4, 2024 /CNW/ -- CISCO LIVE --
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) kicks off Cisco LIVE 2024 with new AI-powered
innovations and investments that deliver a clear message: AI isn't
just the latest turning point in technology. It's an efficient,
intelligent source of digital resilience that can connect and
protect entire organizations and power growth, scale, and an
inclusive future for all.
At its premier networking and security event, Cisco is launching
AI-enriched networking, security, and observability solutions
across its entire portfolio. These are designed to give customers
the visibility and insights they need to connect and protect their
entire digital footprint and build digital resilience.
"We're thrilled to share incredible innovation and new
AI-powered capabilities for our customers this week at Cisco Live,"
said Chuck Robbins, Chair and CEO of
Cisco. "Cisco is uniquely positioned to revolutionize the way
infrastructure and data connect and protect organizations of all
sizes, and we are confident we are the right strategic partner for
our customers in this era of AI."
Cisco Investments also announced a $1B global investment fund to expand and develop
secure and reliable AI solutions. Cisco is making strategic
investments in Cohere, Mistral AI and Scale AI that will advance
several critical areas including customer readiness, compute
infrastructure, foundational models, model development, and
training.
Cisco's Product Innovations Tackle Customers' Core
Challenges
Cisco customers are in the spotlight, showcasing the pivotal
role Cisco plays as a crucial strategic ally in business and
technology. Customers featured at Cisco Live include Steve Madden, Room & Board, Marriott,
AT&T, Equinix, WWE, SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park and McLaren
F1 Racing.
Making AI easier with AI & Networking
- Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI
clusters This breakthrough AI cluster
solution with NVIDIA features a single place to design, deploy,
monitor and assure AI pods and data center workloads. It
guides users from design, to validated deployment, to monitoring
and assurance for enterprise-ready AI infrastructure.
- Cisco Networking Cloud:
New AI-native Digital Experience Assurance innovations from Cisco
ThousandEyes unlock cross-domain assurance for Cisco Networking
Cloud and beyond. Customers are now empowered to see and manage
every enterprise, cloud, SaaS, and Internet network for exceptional
digital experiences to every user, everywhere, every time.
Making AI safer with AI & Security
- In an increasingly complex and hyper-distributed world, Cisco
tips the balance of power in favor of the defenders with new
capabilities across the Cisco Security Cloud Customers
gain an AI-fortified security posture backed by market-leading
firewall infrastructure, new sources of telemetry, superior network
visibility, and AI-native management architecture.
- A little over one month after the launch of Cisco Hypershield,
Cisco is announcing Cisco Hypershield support for AMD Pensando DPUs
and Intel IPUs. It enables enterprises to realize an AI-driven,
distributed security architecture that seamlessly goes from the
cloud to the data centers to the edge while still being highly
performing and energy efficient.
Making AI work with AI & Observability
- Customers benefit from Cisco's recent landmark acquisition of
Splunk with flawless, secure digital experiences powered by
unparalleled visibility and real-time insights that help
standardize the observability practice into solution – getting
customers ahead of future demands and set up for new
opportunities.
- At the event, Cisco will share that it has combined its new
AI Assistant and the power of Splunk Log Observability with
Cisco AppDynamics Application Performance Monitoring (APM) with the
introduction of AppDynamics Log Observer Connect. This will
enable users to unlock meaningful guidance and insights to make
informed decisions faster and more accurately than ever.
Making AI work with the Future of Work
- AI-Powered Contact Center and Hybrid Work
Innovations New capabilities in Webex Contact Center will
help organizations design and manage conversational self-service
experiences, provide an AI Assistant for contact center agents, and
integrate third-party virtual agent solutions.
- Additionally, AI Assistant for Webex Suite will soon be
generally available to customers. IT admins will benefit from
remote device access management in Webex Control Hub, and all-new
Desk Reservation with Cisco Spaces makes it easy to find and book
desk spaces and Cisco Collaboration Devices.
Enabling AI Skills
- New AI Fundamentals for Partners: Cisco will announce
the first stage of its AI partner specialization training that will
equip partners with the knowledge needed to optimize infrastructure
for AI workloads using Cisco technology. It will explore AI basics,
including key concepts and terms, a taxonomy of AI solutions and an
overview of Cisco's AI strategy, governance and use cases to master
AI solution implementation in, on and through Cisco platforms.
- New Cisco Certification in AI: Organizations can build
an AI-ready workforce with the announcement of Cisco's new
certification in designing modern AI architecture. The
vendor-agnostic certification will enable employers, employees and
jobseekers to gain and validate the skills needed to design modern
AI/ML compute and networks now and into the future.
About Cisco Live
Cisco LIVE 2024, the premier networking and security event that
brings together the global Cisco community to showcase the latest
innovations and inspire attendees to strive for a more inclusive
future for all. Welcoming more than 20,000 attendees in-person,
with nearly one million more tuning in from around the world via a
live-streamed digital event, Cisco LIVE 2024 is set to be Cisco's
most impactful conference to date.
To experience the live keynotes, learn more about Cisco Live
news announcements and view additional digital content, visit The
Newsroom.
Additional Resources:
- Flickr album with on-site photos uploaded daily from Cisco LIVE
2024.
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is to power an inclusive future for all by helping our customers
reimagine their applications, power hybrid work, secure their
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