Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace | Computer Weekly

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In the opening keynote at its annual Cisco Live EMEA event, regional leadership moved to cement the networking giant’s embrace of artificial intelligence (AI) with a raft of technology launches, some of them previously trailed. All of these problems, the supplier says, are addressable, and it is this goal that is fuelling its product and service pipelines, the output of which was the main reason 17,000 people showed up at Amsterdam’s RAI conference centre. The core introductions made at Cisco Live EMEA centred on AI infrastructure and datacentre solutions for both enterprise and service provider customers. These include the launch of Cisco N9300 Smart Switches with its Hypershield network security fabric onboard, designed to enhance AI datacentre architectures by embedding services directly into the network as opposed to on the endpoint; Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall, a distributed security fabric to bring zero-trust segmentation and guard against app vulnerabilities; Cisco Agile Services Networking, an architecture for service providers to enable AI connectivity, supported by Silicon One-powered platforms, coherent pluggable optics and provider management; and finally, the debut of the Nvidia MGX-based Cisco UCS C845A M8 server, designed specifically to offer sufficient compute power for emerging AI use cases. Finally, on the security and resilience side, it is introducing traffic insights to Cisco ThousandEyes, and unveiling a number of new integrations with recently acquired Splunk.

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