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Cisco Partner Summit Held in San Diego at the beginning of November, Cisco’s Partner Summit revealed innovations and thoughts about the opportunities that lie ahead for its partners. Hint: it’s pretty much AI.
Cisco chair and CEO Chuck Robbins comments, “There is no AI without a network, and no AI without a secure network. None of our security competitors have networking, and none of our networking competitors have security. This is something that only we can do together." Q What are Cisco’s magic ingredients to help customers win? A End-to-end infrastructure, a powerful AI stack, Cisco Splunk, AI-native collaboration and Optics The Cisco-led 2025 AI Readiness Index revealed that only 28% of organisations believe their infrastructure can handle AI workloads, indicating lots of opportunities ahead.
Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s president and chief product officer, commented, “The next era of AI is here,” Patel said. “And it's probably one of the most interesting times in tech that any of us has lived through. Because we're moving from this world of chatbots that intelligently answered our questions — that felt like magic three years ago — to agents that conduct tasks and jobs almost fully autonomously on behalf of humans.” To meet the challenges to come with agentic AI, Patel added, customers need to excel in three key areas: 1 AI-ready data centres 2 Future-proofed workplaces , and 3 Digitally resilient infrastructure. And partners need to cut complexity and ensure security and resilience. “We help customers build out AI ready data centers because that's where the digital workers are going to live. We help them build out future-proofed workplaces because that's where the human workers are going to live. And then we need to make sure that the infrastructure that we provide is resilient so that if you do have an outage, you don't spend time figuring out where the outage is,” continued Patel. “We can make sure that the response and remediation happen in a very compressed amount of time. Because the absence of resilience is extinction.” n
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