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AMSTERDAM, February 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — CISCO LIVE EMEA — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), a leader in networking and security, today introduced new features and technologies to its networking portfolio designed to promote a more unified and integrated approach to managing and securing customer networks.
IT organizations are turning to their technology vendors to help them address three key priorities in their network operations: security, automation, and a unified digital experience for their end users, things, and applications. As these same companies seek to implement AI-based technologies, the need to have a deep understanding of the end-to-end experience has grown.
“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 powers this artificial intelligence 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 network
Users need a secure network solution that offers a shared view across the entire network and a scalable way to enforce security policies anywhere, without compromising their always-on, optimized user experience. To meet the needs of its users, Cisco is introducing new Cisco Networking Cloud innovations:
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New Integrations with Cisco Secure Access: Highlighting Cisco’s commitment to providing customers with the tools to bring networking and security teams together, Cisco is introducing deeper integrations between the Cisco Networking and Security Cloud platforms. These innovations with Cisco Secure Access, Cisco’s Secure Services Edge (SSE) solution, offer a unified approach to network and security management and automated digital experience monitoring, providing insights into network, device and device performance metrics. applications. These integrations are available today with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and ThousandEyes.
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Improved security status reporting for OT assets: Industrial organizations can now use the Security Posture report to get comprehensive details on OT asset inventories, top vulnerabilities, and highest cyber risks to help reduce the attack surface. These capabilities are available with Cisco Cyber Vision and as part of our industrial-grade hardened routers, switches, and firewalls.
Simplified operations
To demonstrate how Cisco continues to converge its management platforms and work towards a unified portfolio experience, Cisco presents:
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Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst Wireless: First introduced as a catalyst switching feature, customers can now view and manage select Catalyst wireless devices in the Meraki dashboard. This new capability gives Cisco customers a comprehensive, cloud-managed view of their access networks. Cloud monitoring for Catalyst Wireless supports Catalyst 9800 wireless controllers and most Catalyst Wi-Fi 5 Wave 2, Wi-Fi 6, and Wi-Fi 6E access points.
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Catalyst 9300-M Cloud Managed Switch Models: Cisco continues its journey towards a single, unified hardware architecture with the new Catalyst 9300-M switches that will be natively managed from the Meraki dashboard. This is the first step in the evolution towards complete cloud management for the Catalyst switching portfolio.
Enhance 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.
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Cisco UCS X Series Direct: An extension of Cisco’s award-winning X-Series UCS modular system, the new Cisco X-Series Direct is designed for environments where customers need connectivity and compute power at the edge to support more applications with less infrastructure.
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Projects validated by Cisco AI: Cisco is expanding its offering of validated converged and hyperconverged designs that address new use cases, leveraging recently announced Cisco Validated Solutions AND AI/ML project for data center networks. These projects can accelerate AI/ML deployments and minimize risks by helping customers create high-performance computing and data center network facilities with automation and visibility tailored for a variety of data-driven enterprise use cases. artificial intelligence.
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