Latest Cisco products show measured approach to AI | TechTarget
Summary
Cisco has added infrastructure and software to its growing product portfolio for cloud providers and enterprises utilizing AI applications and models. Cisco launched a SaaS product called Motific that applies policy controls for using corporate data in generative AI large language models. In an interview with Yahoo Finance last month, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said successful AI companies will have product features that help users take advantage of their data securely. Ciscos products cover every networking layer, so its approach to AI must be measured but steady as it navigates current market hype, IDC analyst Vijay Bhagavath said. "The greatest weaknesses of Ethernet has long been the fact that its general-purpose nature meant that you had to go through a lot of hoops to have it perform properly for specific types of workloads," said J Metz, the UEC steering committee chair, in a recent interview.