Technology trends and insights
AI
North-south traffic is becoming a gating factor for AI performance—moving data in and results out fast enough to keep GPUs highly utilized. See how a converged Ethernet fabric with traffic-aware load balancing and centralized operations can help your AI data center deliver predictable performance at scale.
Networking
Tim Coogan, SVP of Global Partner Sales, explores why Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA is the definitive partner opportunity for 2026. Learn how this modular architecture translates into a concrete business case, the role of the Cisco 360 Partner Program, and how new AI certifications are helping partners capture their share of the projected $267 billion AI services market.
Networking
Automate multi-site OT security management and gain unified visibility across all industrial sites with Cyber Vision Site Manager and the new Splunk app.
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Networking
At the Cisco Live EMEA event going on in Amsterdam this week, Cisco unveiled a range of updates across its networking and security portfolio that are aimed at helping customers tap agentic AI technologies to more effectively run their enterprise infrastructure. “Agentic AI orchestrates workflows, moves data, communicates with other agents, and makes decisions autonomously. This represents a fundamental shift…
A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, got into its staging server and believe at least 7,000 servers had been compromised by the end of January, half of them in the US. The botnet’s weapons include exploits for unpatched Linux vulnerabilities going…
Enterprises are rethinking their virtualization strategies in the wake of Broadcom’s changes to VMware licensing, but most are not yet ready to make needed changes. That’s according to a new survey by HPE, which found that two-thirds of enterprises are planning material changes to their virtualization strategy within the next two years as they assess virtualization alternatives. There’s been plenty…
AI
Cisco is no longer trying to be just a software, hardware, or silicon company. It’s now positioning itself as a systems or platform company that delivers the critical infrastructure needed for the AI era. This week, Cisco held its annual Cisco Live EMEA event and announced its fiscal second-quarter earnings. During the Amsterdam keynote, Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s president and chief…
Intel said it was able to identify five vulnerabilities in the one of the most important confidential computing elements of its Xeon CPUs with help from Google’s cloud security team. The work was part of a five-month joint security review between Intel’s INT31 team (Intel’s offensive security research) and Google’s Cloud Security team. The partnership identified five vulnerabilities and 35…
Networking
AI is driving new revenue for Cisco, while campus networking and other components added to a successful quarter for the vendor. CEO Chuck Robbins told analysts on a conference call that overall networking revenue increased 21% year-over-year to nearly $8 billion in company’s fiscal second quarter. Other highlights from the Q2 recap include the rising cost of system memory, AI…