Cisco Live 2024: New Unified Observability Experience Combines Cisco & Splunk Tools

Cisco Live 2024: New Unified Observability Experience Combines Cisco & Splunk Tools

Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk is playing out with a new full-stack observability product, the Unified Observability Experience, Cisco announced at the Cisco Live conference on June 5. As part of the same suite of conference announcements, Cisco also showed off the initial availability of a free trial version of Motific, a generative AI delivery platform made in concert with Mistral AI. Unified Observability Experience creates easy connections between AppDynamics and Splunk Platform Cisco acquired data…

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Cisco Live 2024: Cisco Unveils AI Deployment Solution With NVIDIA

Cisco Live 2024: Cisco Unveils AI Deployment Solution With NVIDIA

Cisco will invest $1 billion in AI and package a new networking solution with NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure, the organization announced at its annual consumer event on June 4. Cisco Live is being held in Las Vegas from June 2 – 6. These and the other announcements from Cisco Live respond to the enterprise trends for AI, plus increased visibility and security. Cisco partners with NVIDIA on Nexus HyperFabric AI clusters A new networking solution from…

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RSA: Google Enhances its Enterprise SecOps Offerings With Gemini AI

RSA: Google Enhances its Enterprise SecOps Offerings With Gemini AI

The RSA Conference, held in San Francisco from May 6-9, brings together cybersecurity professionals from across the world. This year’s conference is buzzing with conversation about generative AI: how to use generative AI to protect against attacks and how to secure generative AI itself. We’re rounding up the enterprise business tech news from RSA that is most relevant for IT and tech decision-makers. This article will be updated throughout RSA with more tech news highlights….

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Operational Innovations for AI and Cloud-Native Workloads from Cisco and Red Hat

Operational Innovations for AI and Cloud-Native Workloads from Cisco and Red Hat

For nearly two decades, Cisco and Red Hat have collaborated on integrated, industry-leading solutions to optimize IT infrastructure. The partnership brings together Red Hat expertise in operating systems, containers, and automation with world-class data center compute, networking, and management products and solutions from Cisco. The companies have most recently focused on product integrations and features that help customers develop, deploy, and manage the most demanding artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-native workloads across on-premises data centers…

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Cisco and Nutanix: A 360-Degree Partnership Where 1 + 1 = 3

Cisco and Nutanix: A 360-Degree Partnership Where 1 + 1 = 3

Cisco enters strategic partnerships like the one with Nutanix in order to leverage our strengths in data center infrastructure with the complementary strengths of industry leaders. It’s a “1 + 1 = 3” approach that provides our customers with more comprehensive and optimized solutions in the face of evolving challenges. According to IDC, the number of new applications that are expected to be available by 2026 is 750 million. Apps today are the foundation for…

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Why 2024 is the Year of AI for Networking 

Why 2024 is the Year of AI for Networking 

“This is the year of AI,” declared Chuck Robbins recently at Mobile World Congress. With demand growing from a broad range of enterprise customers who plan to build out their own artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, the market is changing and expanding rapidly. Consider the key results of the Cisco AI Readiness Index, based on detailed surveys of more than 8,000 business and IT leaders around the world, which revealed that 84% of organizations surveyed expect…

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Best Secure Access Service Edge Platforms in 2024 | TechRepublic

Best Secure Access Service Edge Platforms in 2024 | TechRepublic

The rise of remote work, cloud adoption, and the increasing complexity of cyber threats have forced many organizations to reconsider their network security approach. The secure access service edge (SASE) is one of the best approaches, as it offers a unified network and security framework through the integration of SD-WAN and cloud-native security features, such as secure web gateway, cloud access security brokers, firewall-as-a-service and zero trust. These ensure that modern organizations have scalable, agile…

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Botnet Struck U.S. Routers; Here’s How to Keep Employees Safe

Botnet Struck U.S. Routers; Here’s How to Keep Employees Safe

State-sponsored hackers affiliated with China have targeted small office/home office routers in the U.S. in a wide-ranging botnet attack, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray announced on Wednesday, Jan. 31. Most of the affected routers were manufactured by Cisco and NetGear and had reached end-of-life status. Department of Justice investigators said on Jan. 31, 2024, that the malware has been deleted from affected routers. The investigators also cut the routers off from other devices…

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Cisco Patches Two Dangerous Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Cisco Patches Two Dangerous Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

The vulnerabilities, one of which was rated critical and one of which was rated highly severe, affect Cisco IOS XE software. Image: mehaniq41/Adobe Stock Cisco has patched two zero-day vulnerabilities that exposed Cisco IOS XE system software hosts to attackers. These vulnerabilities affected devices running the Cisco IOS XE software, such as routers and switches. The update, including the patches, is available at Cisco’s software download portal. Customers who do not have a Cisco service…

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