Cisco Adds New Security and AI Capabilities in a Crucial Step Toward Cisco Networking Cloud Vision
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
News Summary:
-- Addressing the need to connect, secure and assure increasingly complex
applications and networks, Cisco introduces new integrations across
networking and security portfolios.
-- IT teams can manage more of their campus and branch secure networking
technologies from a unified AI-driven cloud platform with additions to
the wireless and switching portfolios.
-- Customers can advance the support of AI/ML workloads in data centers of
all sizes with new Cisco Validated Designs and UCS-X Series Direct.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CISCO LIVE EMEA -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader in networking and security, today introduced new capabilities and technologies across its networking portfolio that are designed to drive a more unified and integrated approach to managing and securing customer networks.
IT organizations are looking to their technology providers to help address three core priorities in their network operations: security, automation, and a unified digital experience for their end users, things and applications. As these same companies look to deploy AI-powered technologies, the need has only grown to have a deep understanding of the end-to-end experience.
"The future of AI depends on the network and the future of the network depends on AI," said Jonathan Davidson, EVP and GM, Cisco Networking. "With Cisco Networking Cloud, the data set that feeds this AI comes from more than one billion endpoints. No other networking vendor has more or better intelligence to simplify and secure network operations at any scale for a better user experience."
Secure Networking
Users require a secure networking solution that delivers a shared view across their entire network, and a scalable way to enforce security policies everywhere, without compromising their always-on, optimized user experience. To address the needs of their users, Cisco is introducing new Cisco Networking Cloud innovations:
-- New Integrations with Cisco Secure Access: Highlighting Cisco's
commitment to provide customers with the tools to bring networking and
security teams closer together, Cisco is introducing deeper integrations
between Cisco Networking and Security Cloud platforms. These innovations
with Cisco Secure Access, Cisco's Secure Services Edge (SSE) solution,
deliver a unified approach to networking and security management, and
automated monitoring of the digital experience, providing insights from
network, device and application performance metrics. These integrations
are available today with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and ThousandEyes.
-- Enhanced security posture reporting for OT assets: Industrial
organizations can now utilize the Security Posture report for
comprehensive details on OT asset inventories, top vulnerabilities and
highest cyber risks to help reduce the attack surface. These features
are available with Cisco Cyber Vision and available as part of our
hardened industrial-grade routers, switches, and firewalls.
Simplified Operations
To demonstrate how Cisco is continuing to converge its management platforms and work towards a unified portfolio experience, Cisco is introducing:
-- Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst Wireless: First introduced as a capability
for Catalyst switching, customers can now view and manage select
Catalyst wireless devices in the Meraki dashboard. This new capability
gives Cisco customers a complete, cloud-managed view of their access
networks. Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst Wireless supports the Catalyst
9800 Wireless Controllers and most Catalyst Wi-Fi 5 Wave 2, Wi-Fi 6 and
Wi-Fi 6E access points.
-- Catalyst 9300-M Cloud-Managed Switch Models: Cisco is continuing its
journey to a single, unified hardware architecture with the new Catalyst
9300-M switches which will be managed natively from the Meraki
dashboard. This is the first step in the evolution towards full cloud
management for the Catalyst switching portfolio.
Advance AI with Scalable Infrastructure
Cisco is also unveiling new technologies to help customers accelerate the adoption of AI by providing the right infrastructure for the right use cases.
-- Cisco UCS X-Series Direct: An extension of Cisco's industry-leading and
award winning UCS X-Series Modular System, the new Cisco X-Series Direct
is built for environments where customers need connectivity and compute
power at the edge to support more applications with less infrastructure.
-- Cisco AI Validated Designs: Cisco is expanding its offering of converged
and hyperconverged validated designs addressing new use cases,
leveraging recently announced Cisco Validated Solutions and AI/ML
blueprint for data center networks. These designs can accelerate AI/ML
deployments and minimize risks by helping customers build high
performance compute and data center network fabrics with automation and
visibility tailored for a variety of AI-driven enterprise use cases.
Additional Resources
-- Cisco Blog: Delivering Simplified Operations: The Latest from Cisco Live
Amsterdam
-- Cisco Blog: Staying Connected and Protected in a Highly Distributed
World with Cisco Secure Networking
-- Cisco Blog: Cisco Showcases Data Center Computing Innovations at Cisco
Live Amsterdam
About Cisco
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