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Cisco & NVIDIA GTC – What the Latest AI Announcements Mean for Enterprises
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Hey everyone, I wanted to share some thoughts on the recent announcements from NVIDIA’s GTC conference last week – focusing on what this means for enterprise customers like you who are navigating AI deployment. Cisco had a strong showing, partnering closely with NVIDIA to roll out innovations…
Enhancing AI Model Observability with Cisco and Splunk: Practical Techniques for Practitioners
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Hot off the heels of the Splunk .conf25 last week, I thought I’d share some thoughts about the intersection of running AI models at scale and AI model observability. When I first dove into the world of AI at Cisco, I remember sitting in a late-night strategy session, staring at a dashboard full of LLM outputs…
AI-Powered Computer Vision Deployment
5 min read
Imagine a world where machines see as well as – or better than – humans, catching safety hazards in mines, spotting defects on a factory line, or flagging abnormalities in X-rays. That’s where AI-powered computer vision is already taking mining, manufacturing, and healthcare…
Agentic AI Without Hyperscaler Lock-In: Building Flexible, Future-Proof AI Systems
6 min read
Imagine a world where your AI systems can think, decide, and adapt like a human team, tackling complex tasks without being chained to a single tech giant’s ecosystem. That’s the promise of agentic AI. You have systems that act autonomously, make decisions, and solve problems with minimal…
Why I’m A Big Fan of Vast Data’s Advancements in Next-Gen AI Storage
7 min read
Hey everyone, if you’ve been following the explosion in AI tech, you know that storage isn’t just about dumping files anymore – it’s the backbone for training models, querying massive datasets, and keeping everything secure. I’ve been diving deep into Vast Data’s…
Behind The Tech: #RAG Is So Yesterday – Hello MPC
4 min read
As someone who’s been knee-deep with AI at Cisco, I’ve seen trends come and go, and today I want to talk about one that’s starting to feel a bit dated: Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG. Don’t get me wrong—RAG has been a game-changer for making LLMs more accurate by pulling…
My First 100 Days At Cisco – Building AI the Right Way
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I’ve always believed that when it comes to building scalable AI infrastructure, you have to find a balance between performance and reliability. Technology offers speed, but a dependable infrastructure is what makes AI truly sustainable. My time at Cisco has reinforced that belief, so I wanted to…
My First 100 Days At Cisco – Cisco Live 2025 & the Future of AI Applications
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In my first few months at Cisco, I’ve had a front-row seat to the business’s key areas of focus. Every large tech business claims to be changing the way the world does things, but the scale of transformative solutions I’m seeing at Cisco is different. This year’s Cisco Live event was confirmation –…
My First 100 Days At Cisco – Why Cisco’s Responsible AI Framework Matters More Than Anyone Thinks
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In my first few months at Cisco, I’ve had the chance to dive into a lot of what’s happening behind the scenes – there’s been no shortage of innovation to take in. But one theme that has quietly stood out was something that’s less about what we can build with AI, and more about how we build it. Cisco’s…