Analytics & Automation

Update July 9, 7:55 p.m EST: GitHub removed the DeepNude source code from its website. Read more here. After 4 days on the market, the creator(s) of DeepNude, the AI that “undressed” women, retired the app following a glut of backlash from individuals including leaders of the AI community: Althoug…

There is truly nothing more special than the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. The storied history; the incredible views; the atmosphere unlike any other. As the best golfers in the world face golf’s ultimate test, Cisco is delivering advanced data and analytics straight from the practice range all champio…

Enterprise networks generate a lot of data. A lot. Imagine a network with 6000+ access points, 10 wireless controllers, a data center, dozens of branch offices, and over 10,000 roaming wireless devices covering an area the size of a small city. Every AP collects telemetry on its operating environmen…

At first pass, data evangelism may sound more like an oxymoron than a corporate function. Most of us (and our dictionaries) associate evangelism with faith, while data & analytics is core to the scientific method. Evangelism is predominantly qualitative while data & analytics is the definiti…

DJ Patil, former first Chief Data Scientist of the United States, closed this year’s Data Symposium with a reminder for our audience: “We live in a truly remarkable time.” Technology, he explained, is improving our lives in ways that would have been unfathomable just ten years ago. Consider online s…

This week the Gartner Symposium/IT Expo 2018 will take place in Orlando, Florida, and executives will hear about how companies are deploying new technologies that change the way they do business. Highlighted are sessions on artificial intelligence, blockchain, customer experience, data analytics, an…

We are hearing amazing stories from our Cisco customers as they roll out intelligent analytics and assurance solutions in the form of Cisco DNA Center, Meraki insight, and Network Assurance Engine (NAE). The comments are on the accuracy and complexity of the analytical models that we have built, bas…

Network analytics is a key element of intent-based networking. Understanding how it works is not that difficult. Our customers are telling us that their IP networks are more strategic to their core business than ever, and this means that the network services, applications, and security need to be al…

The Data Symposium is my favorite time of the year! Seriously. I look forward to summer vacation and the winter holiday as much as the next person, but as someone who lives and breathes data every day at Cisco, there is nothing I like better than watching the Data Symposium come together each fall.…