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Forbes
2 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Cisco Charts Its Agentic AI Journey At Cisco Live U.S. 2025
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins delivering the opening-day keynote at Cisco Live 2025 At last week's Cisco Live event in San Diego, the IT and OT infrastructure giant showcased the development of deep agentic AI integrations across its broad portfolio of networking, cybersecurity and observability offerings — with a renewed focus on customer experience. I have had the opportunity to participate in many of the company's past events around the world, but this year's conference could be considered historic given the payload of substantive announcements. Let's dig into what I found most important — and how Cisco might improve on what it's already doing to further its ambitions. (Note: Cisco is an advisory client of my firm, Moor Insights & Strategy.) Cisco Live's mainstage sessions across two days focused on two things: (1) a dizzying number of new solution announcements, and (2) improvements in its customer experience journey. Not surprisingly, day one outlined Cisco's continued progression with modern AI into agentic functionality, from both connectivity and security perspectives. Jeetu Patel, the company's chief product officer who was recently promoted to president, articulated a pragmatic approach that focuses on AI-ready datacenters, future-proofed workplaces and digital resilience created by infusing security controls into the company's network infrastructure portfolio. I was particularly struck by how he contrasted the demands of generative versus agentic AI inferencing, highlighting the need to future-proof connectivity and compute infrastructure to support the demands of agentic persistent workloads. His illustration also demonstrated the need for Cisco to double down on supporting these workloads, something that I will come back to as an opportunity for improvement. On day two, executive vice president Liz Centoni, who took the reins of the company's overall customer experience efforts a year ago, outlined a completely retooled strategy. A new approach was desperately needed, given that Cisco's initial launch of the CX was more programmatic and decoupled technically from its infrastructure solutions, making it complex to navigate for both its channel partner sellers and its customers. What I like about the new effort is tighter product and solution integration supported by an AI adoption agent and a purpose-built large language model. It is a powerful combination, leveraging the company's vast knowledge base with 40 years of issue and remediation experience. Cisco unquestionably possesses the largest data lake in its market, one that has the potential to speed deployment and resolve ever-present issues such as infrastructure misconfigurations quickly and easily. Centoni's 'drop the mic' moment for me was the stated goal to make every customer feel like Cisco's only customer. That is an audacious statement by any measure, and I believe that Cisco has the potential to deliver on its promise. Given the vast number of announcements at Cisco Live this year, it might be difficult to pick one that stands above all the rest. However, the company's new AgenticOps platform landed for me as the most significant for two reasons. First, it includes what I consider to be a beautifully executed management console, dubbed AI Canvas. AI Canvas incorporates an intuitive user interface that integrates a generative AI-powered natural language tool that allows users to customize views with dynamically generated widgets. In doing so, AI Canvas provides a dynamic and real-time view into the inner workings of a customer's infrastructure expanse — providing network assurance, security observability and remediation functionality supported by Cisco's Splunk, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, Duo Security and other solution offerings. Second, a newly developed Deep Network Model aims to feed AI Canvas with data pulled from Cisco's knowledge base. Combined, they have the potential to dramatically simplify network and security operations with deep observability, exceptional visualization and robust collaboration features to remediate network issues and improve security posture and cyber defense. I also had the opportunity to spend time with senior vice president DJ Sampath, who leads Cisco's AI Software and Platform organization. What I find noteworthy about his team's efforts is the rapid development cycle that brought AgenticOps to market so quickly — in less than one year. As a former product marketer, I can tell you that is a significant achievement by any measure, and it's one that continues to feed Cisco's innovation engine under Patel's leadership. From my perspective, the newly announced AgenticOps platform could serve as the tip of the spear to facilitate the company's deeper infrastructure sales penetration into its competitor install bases. Moor Insights & Strategy founder and chief analyst Patrick Moorhead and The Futurum Group's chief executive Daniel Newman dive deeper with Sampath in this Six Five Media On The Road conversation from the event. A handful of other announcements are worth highlighting: I have highlighted only a handful of the networking and security announcements at the conference. With that said, I really like what Cisco is doing to drive to a platform approach at scale — making it easier for channel partners to sell and deploy the company's numerous new offerings and for customers to consume them. As previously mentioned, Cisco's announcement payload was massive at Cisco Live. Consequently, customers and partners may have a tough time digesting all of this. The risk is that some of these new capabilities may be lost in the mix, and it's going to be a challenge for Cisco to prioritize which elements are most important, whether for overall product marketing or in go-to-market conversations with individual customers. Furthermore, I felt that Cisco's compute strategy fell flat during Patel's keynote. A handful of Cisco executives I spoke to acknowledged the need to strengthen the messaging, especially given the company's desire to deliver full-stack, AI-ready infrastructure through its AI PODs platform, which marries compute and networking to address AI modeling and ML operations. However, I will defer to my Moor Insights & Strategy colleague Matt Kimball to explore this more deeply, given his coverage of datacenter compute. Despite some of those short-term challenges, I like what the company is doing to execute against a platform strategy that addresses the challenges organizations face in deploying AI-ready infrastructure to transform network and security operations. Historically, through Cisco's parallel organic roadmap and acquisition efforts, it has duplicated functionality — especially from an automation perspective. The good news is that its rapid adoption of agentic AI is addressing its myriad automation tools, and in the process is simplifying automation capabilities though more unified product development and go-to-market efforts. I liken a complete and modern AI infrastructure stack to a three-legged stool providing the requisite compute, networking and security functionality. In my mind, it also includes storage as table stakes, given the demands placed on unifying data to train large and small language models. The recent announcements at Cisco Live U.S. address all of these elements to help enterprises unlock the transformative potential of generative and agentic AI applications and workloads securely and at scale.
Time of India
11-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Cisco aims to build AI-ready data centres, future-proof workspaces: Chuck Robbins
Live Events Networking hardware and security solutions provider Cisco said Tuesday that the company aims to build artificial intelligence (AI)-centric data centres and future-proof workplaces for enterprise customers."We want to help you (enterprises) build AI-ready data centres. We want to help you future-proof your workplace. And we want to do that with an underlying layer of digital resilience," Chuck Robbins, chairman and chief executive, Cisco Systems was speaking at the Cisco Live 2025 annual US multinational said that it would transform data centres to power AI workloads anywhere."We need seamless operations, observability, and security everywhere. We want to help you (enterprises) do this with technologies like Secure AI Factory that we have announced with Nvidia," Robbins has doubled down on partnership with Jensen Huang-headed two companies enable enterprises to have access to a secure and scalable platform to fast-forward the creation and deployment of AI solutions to drive business by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner back in 1984, the company said that it could facilitate enterprise customers with "massive innovation" enabling them to modernise and reimagine data centres with solutions such as Expanded AI Pods, Unified Nexus Dashboard."So we need a huge amount of security into the underlying network in order to be able to apply network services. We believe that we have a meaningful role to play."The top executive said that Cisco offers a combination of networking and security offerings which acts as a key strength which its rivals San Jose-based multinational said that Cisco is foundational to data centre build outs worldwide, and offering "critical infrastructure" catering to the AI has also partnered with OpenAI, and is working on its newly-released Codex software engineering agent that allows network engineers access tools for writing, testing and building further said that the fusion of security with the network would be critical for agentic month, Cisco and G42 extended their strategic partnership to drive AI innovation across the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United company collaborated with the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), led by BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), MGX, Microsoft and Nvidia.
Time of India
11-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Cisco eyes AI-ready data centres worldwide, says Chuck Robbins
SAN DIEGO: Networking hardware and security solutions provider Cisco Tuesday said that the company aims to build artificial intelligence (AI)-centric data centres and future-proof workplaces for enterprise customers. "We want to help you (enterprises) build AI-ready data centers. We want to help you future-proof your workplace. And we want to do that with an underlying layer of digital resilience," Chuck Robbins, chairman and chief executive, Cisco Systems said. Robbins was speaking at the Cisco Live 2025 annual conference. The US multinational said that it would transform data centres to power AI workloads anywhere. "We need seamless operations, observability, and security everywhere. We want to help you (enterprises) do this with technologies like Secure AI Factory that we have announced with Nvidia," Robbins said. Cisco has doubled down on partnership with Jensen Huang-headed Nvidia. The two companies enable enterprises to have access to a secure and scalable platform to fast-forward the creation and deployment of AI solutions to drive business value. Founded by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner back in 1984, the company said that it could facilitate enterprise customers with "massive innovation" enabling them to modernise and reimagine data centres with solutions such as Expanded AI Pods, Unified Nexus Dashboard. "So we need a huge amount of security into the underlying network in order to be able to apply network services. We believe that we have a meaningful role to play." The top executive said that Cisco offers a combination of networking and security offerings which acts as a key strength which its rivals lack. The San Jose-based multinational said that Cisco is foundational to data centre build outs worldwide, and offering "critical infrastructure" catering to the AI era. Cisco has also partnered with OpenAI, and is working on its newly-released Codex software engineering agent that allows network engineers access tools for writing, testing and building code. Robbins further said that the fusion of security with the network would be critical for agentic AI. Last month, Cisco and G42 extended their strategic partnership to drive AI innovation across the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United States. The company collaborated with the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), led by BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), MGX, Microsoft and Nvidia. (The author is attending Cisco Live 2025 at the invitation of Cisco Systems)
Business Wire
09-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Opengear Unveils Integrated Support Platform to Empower Always-On Infrastructure
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Opengear, a Digi International company (NASDAQ: DGII, and provider of secure and Smart Out of Band™ management solutions, today announced a major transformation in how organizations buy, deploy, and maintain their network infrastructure. We're delivering peace of mind through smarter coverage, flexible service options, and a consistent, long-term ownership experience. Share Beginning this month, every new Opengear appliance will ship with five years of built-in hardware coverage and inclusive SLA-backed support. This shift turns support into a strategic asset, enabling IT leaders to plan more confidently, reduce risk, and simplify the path to network resilience. 'This marks a meaningful evolution in the way we support our customers,' said Patrick Quirk, President and General Manager, Opengear. 'We're delivering peace of mind through smarter coverage, flexible service options, and a consistent, long-term ownership experience. This is a foundational shift to help our customers scale resiliently and predictably.' Built-In Support, Tailored for Modern IT With today's infrastructure under constant pressure to deliver uptime, Opengear's support model takes the guesswork out of ownership and scales with operational needs. Five years, standard: Every new Opengear device comes with 5 years of hardware protection — no forms, no added cost, no surprises Two SLA-backed support tiers: Foundation: 8x5 support, advanced hardware replacement, and guaranteed response SLAs Premium: 24x7x365 coverage, accelerated escalation, senior technical experts, and — for enterprise customers — dedicated advocates and 60 hours of annual professional services Simplified purchasing: By requiring support on all new appliances and standardizing SKUs, Opengear eliminates quoting complexity and aligns long-term total cost of ownership (TCO) See It First at Cisco Live 2025 Opengear will showcase its integrated support platform at Cisco Live 2025, June 8-12 in San Diego. Attendees are invited to: Connect with Opengear product leaders and spokespeople Explore how integrated support is embedded across Opengear appliances Learn about the differences between Foundation and Premium support tiers in live discussions and guided walkthroughs Or you can visit About Opengear Opengear, a Digi International company, delivers secure, resilient access and automation to support critical IT infrastructure on the First Day, Worst Day, and Every Day. Through presence and proximity, Opengear solutions enable provisioning, orchestration, and remote management of network devices through innovative Lighthouse central management software and a wide range of appliances. Opengear solutions are trusted by global organizations across financial, digital communications, retail, and manufacturing sectors. The company is headquartered in Utah, with an R&D center in Brisbane, Australia. For more information, visit About Digi International Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) is a leading global provider of IoT connectivity products, services and solutions. It helps companies create next-generation connected products and deploy and manage critical communications infrastructures in demanding environments with high levels of security and reliability. Founded in 1985, Digi has helped customers connect more than 100 million things and counting. For more information, visit
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Opengear Unveils Integrated Support Platform to Empower Always-On Infrastructure
New integrated support model offers embedded protection, SLA-backed tiers, and simplified ownership — previewing at Cisco Live 2025 SAN DIEGO, June 09, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Opengear, a Digi International company (NASDAQ: DGII, and provider of secure and Smart Out of Band™ management solutions, today announced a major transformation in how organizations buy, deploy, and maintain their network infrastructure. Beginning this month, every new Opengear appliance will ship with five years of built-in hardware coverage and inclusive SLA-backed support. This shift turns support into a strategic asset, enabling IT leaders to plan more confidently, reduce risk, and simplify the path to network resilience. "This marks a meaningful evolution in the way we support our customers," said Patrick Quirk, President and General Manager, Opengear. "We're delivering peace of mind through smarter coverage, flexible service options, and a consistent, long-term ownership experience. This is a foundational shift to help our customers scale resiliently and predictably." Built-In Support, Tailored for Modern IT With today's infrastructure under constant pressure to deliver uptime, Opengear's support model takes the guesswork out of ownership and scales with operational needs. Five years, standard: Every new Opengear device comes with 5 years of hardware protection — no forms, no added cost, no surprises Two SLA-backed support tiers: Foundation: 8x5 support, advanced hardware replacement, and guaranteed response SLAs Premium: 24x7x365 coverage, accelerated escalation, senior technical experts, and — for enterprise customers — dedicated advocates and 60 hours of annual professional services Simplified purchasing: By requiring support on all new appliances and standardizing SKUs, Opengear eliminates quoting complexity and aligns long-term total cost of ownership (TCO) See It First at Cisco Live 2025 Opengear will showcase its integrated support platform at Cisco Live 2025, June 8-12 in San Diego. Attendees are invited to: Connect with Opengear product leaders and spokespeople Explore how integrated support is embedded across Opengear appliances Learn about the differences between Foundation and Premium support tiers in live discussions and guided walkthroughs Or you can visit About Opengear Opengear, a Digi International company, delivers secure, resilient access and automation to support critical IT infrastructure on the First Day, Worst Day, and Every Day. Through presence and proximity, Opengear solutions enable provisioning, orchestration, and remote management of network devices through innovative Lighthouse central management software and a wide range of appliances. Opengear solutions are trusted by global organizations across financial, digital communications, retail, and manufacturing sectors. The company is headquartered in Utah, with an R&D center in Brisbane, Australia. For more information, visit About Digi International Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) is a leading global provider of IoT connectivity products, services and solutions. It helps companies create next-generation connected products and deploy and manage critical communications infrastructures in demanding environments with high levels of security and reliability. Founded in 1985, Digi has helped customers connect more than 100 million things and counting. For more information, visit View source version on Contacts Opengear Media Contact Peter Ramsay / Lora MetznerGlobal Results Communicationsopen@ +1 949.307.5908 Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
