Why Secure Networks are the key to a Successful AI-Powered Factory

Why Secure Networks are the key to a Successful AI-Powered Factory

Cisco Blogs / Manufacturing / Why Secure Networks are the key to a Successful AI-Powered Factory AiOps plays a major role in the uptime and innovation of a manufacturer. I recently recorded a webinar delving into how manufacturers can enhance their speed, precision, process optimization and cybersecurity using AI-native IT solutions. The discussion offered valuable insights into the future and best practices of AI in the manufacturing industry. In this session, Paul Didier and I…

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Unlock Agile Server Management for Simplified, Sustainable Operations

Unlock Agile Server Management for Simplified, Sustainable Operations

How customers are benefitting from Cisco Intersight This is part two of a series of blogs on data center operations powered by Cisco Intersight. The first blog provided an overview of Intersight and its key capabilities. This blog covers the most popular use cases for which Cisco customers are deploying Intersight: server management and sustainable operations. Server admins, I understand. In many ways, your job of managing the hundreds to thousands of servers in your…

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Putting AI Into AIOps: A Future Beyond Dashboards

Putting AI Into AIOps: A Future Beyond Dashboards

In today’s fast-paced IT environment, traditional dashboards and reactive alert systems are quickly becoming outdated. The digital landscape requires a more proactive and intelligent approach to IT operations. Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI) in IT Operations (AIOps), a transformative approach that leverages AI to turn data into actionable insights, automated responses, and enabling self-healing systems. This shift isn’t just integrating AI into existing frameworks; it has the potential to fundamentally transform IT operations. The Evolution of…

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Harnessing the Power of AI to Improve Operations

Harnessing the Power of AI to Improve Operations

I’ve noticed that, over time, IT operations often become the foundry of ideas for an organization. This may be out of sheer necessity, as this function sits at the intersection of two intertwined threads. The first is the inexorable progression of technology: networks get faster, servers more powerful, and architecture more complex. At the same time, because of the power of these growing capabilities, IT becomes ever more central to how organizations take care of…

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Why IT Leaders Are Evolving the Network into a High-Performance Digital Engine

Why IT Leaders Are Evolving the Network into a High-Performance Digital Engine

In 2024, digital methods of payment are outpacing cash. 3D printers are becoming a fixture in implant surgery and AI is adding color to the world for people who are visually impaired, using just a phone—and the network. Society expects and depends on an ever-increasing fusion of digital and physical experiences for everyday life and business progress. This dependency is apparent in the 2024 Cisco Global Networking Trends Report, which shows a continued correlation between…

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Organizations increasingly look to observability to solve critical challenges

Organizations increasingly look to observability to solve critical challenges

Enterprise observability practices: Opportunities, challenges, and the growing role of AIOps Observability is now firmly established in organizations with 78% of enterprises and large midmarket companies having an observability practice in place, according to recent research by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). The research findings, described in Distributed Cloud Series — Observability and Demystifying AIOps, gauge the state of observability in the enterprise. The good news is that organizations are realizing many of the benefits of…

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AIOps Drives Exceptional Digital Experience Through Network Assurance

AIOps Drives Exceptional Digital Experience Through Network Assurance

Part 5 of the six-part series – The 2023 Global Networking Trends Report series  The distributed workforce―and the distributed applications and services they consume―have vastly changed the enterprise network paradigm. Many connections—such as private cloud, internet, public cloud, multicloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) networks—now begin and end outside of the traditional corporate infrastructure. The coexistence of these complex connections creates new layers of operational complexity for teams responsible for ensuring predictable performance and quality of service….

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