ML

January 13, 2020

NETWORKING

Does your 2020 Talent Plan reflect Automation and AI Trends?

Happy New Year! As we wind down from the holidays, and start to act on those new years’ resolutions we’ve made, it’s time to start planning for the upcoming year.  In your personal life, you may resolve to lose weight, take up a sport, spend more time with family – whatever that resolution may be—bu…

November 11, 2019

COLLABORATION

Cisco Introduces Cloud-based Webex Contact Center Portfolio at annual Cisco APJC Contact Centre Symposium

Today’s lightning speed competitive business environment requires contact centers to think outside the box in delivering new and innovative ways to win and retain customers. To accomplish this, many businesses are considering the cloud as their next logical step in helping them achieve strategic con…

September 6, 2019

FINANCIAL SERVICES

AI and machine learning are here—is your workforce ready?

Retail banks are taking artificial intelligence and machine-learning technologies and running with them. Armed with these tools, they’re adding speed and ease to banking and completely transforming the customer experience. Algorithms are churning out faster, more accurate credit decisions, speeding…

June 5, 2019

NETWORKING

Improving Networks with Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is changing how we manage networks, and it’s a change we need. Because as we rely more every day on networks and networked applications to keep businesses agile, secure, and competitive, we also need more advanced tools to keep on top of the networks themselves. AI will us ma…

April 26, 2019

CLOUD

Wrapping Our Minds Around AIOps

What’s your verdict on AI so far? Is it a good thing? A bad thing? A scary thing? I suspect that most of us—even those employed in the tech sector—are only vaguely aware of what AI is capable of at this point. And what I’m finding is that the more I learn, the more I’m actually quite excited about t…

April 10, 2019

CLOUD

Consistent AI: The Journey Together

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…

January 8, 2019

NETWORKING

The 5 Technologies that will Change Networking in 2019

The networking field is changing fast. This year, several emerging technologies will fundamentally impact how businesses and their employees connect. The good news is that each technology also represents a solid opportunity to improve some aspect of how a company runs – from network efficiency all t…

November 26, 2018

CLOUD

Accelerating Enterprise AI with Network Architecture Search

AI/ML is a dominant trend in the enterprise. While AI/ML is not fundamentally new, the ubiquity of large amounts of observed data, the rise of distributed computing frameworks and the prevalence of large hardware-accelerated computing infrastructure has lead to new wave of breakthroughs in AI in the…

November 1, 2018

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Dawn of the AI Era – The Time is Now, According to New Readiness Index

As an IT leader, how much of your budget do you typically spend to keep the lights on? 30 percent? 40 percent? Try 78 percent. So how much room does this leave for innovation? In my estimation, not nearly enough. This number, however, doesn’t shock or surprise me. We’ve been moving so quickly over t…