machine learning

We, and our customers, have long understood that networks are most valuable when they do more than support their own weight. They become assets only when they enable the growth of business strategies. To get networks to work at this level, we have to get a higher level of performance and agility fro…

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…

Here we are, almost four whole months into 2019 and machine learning and artificial intelligence are still hot topics in the security world. Or at least that was the impression I had. Our 2019 CISO Benchmark Report however, found that between 2018 and 2019, CISO interest in machine learning dropped…

Partners come together because of a common vision. In the open source world, that vision is directly translated into shared execution. With the rapid adoption of AI/ML, the Kubeflow project has made a tremendous amount of progress in the past year, and it is awesome to be recognized as Google Cloud…

Is your data pipeline static?  Are you working with only fixed data sources with predictable data ingestion rate? Probably not?  Based on many customer discussions, the data pipeline is constantly changing to accommodate new data sources; hence, the data ingestion rate is often unpredictable.  The o…

Keeping the Human Element in Cognitive Collaboration  When Cisco set out to deliver a cognitive collaboration platform, we placed the focus squarely on the human element. After all, making sure people connect is an essential part of making them feel engaged, which leads to more productive business o…

A few months ago, I wrote a piece dispelling some of the most common misconceptions about the ubiquitous internet of things (IoT). But as I mentioned in the article, IoT by itself is not truly transformational. To deliver the greatest impacts — creating new business models, markets and value proposi…

(No superpowers required) In this hyper-connected world, the speed of change has never been faster, the risks have never been higher and success has never been more challenging. Sometimes, it feels as if you need to see into the future to be successful. But, the superpower of foresight may not be as…

This blog was co-written with Francoise Rees, Cisco Solution Marketing manager for AI and ML Last  September, Cisco announced a new UCS platform, the Cisco UCS C480ML M5 designed specifically for intensive AI and ML workloads. Cisco has met and worked with customers to identify workload patterns tha…