9 articles that week
Cisco, Friday, February 6th, 2026
IT teams are moving quickly to support the rapidly evolving network landscape required to support current and upcoming AI-based initiatives. As organizations accelerate AI adoption, unsupported hardware creates operational risk, performance degradation, and security exposure making proactive modernization a foundational step towards AI-Readiness.
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Cisco, Thursday, February 5th, 2026
At the Cisco AI Summit, Cisco convened enterprise, government, and ecosystem leaders to have a candid, non-sales discussion about what it actually takes to deploy AI at scale. The event focused on trust, infrastructure readiness, agentic operations, and governance as the gating factors for moving AI from pilots in 2025 to measurable ROI and production impact in 2026.
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Cisco, Thursday, February 5th, 2026
Imagine a future where today's most secure data, from financial records to national secrets, could be instantly deciphered. This isn't science fiction; it's the emerging reality of quantum computing.
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Network operations are dominated by structured telemetry, long configuration states, time series at scale, and investigations that sprawl across devices, sites, and domains. The practical constraint is not whether an AI model can answer a networking question in isolation.
more → Cisco, Thursday, February 5th, 2026
I had the good fortune to attend the Cisco AI Summit 2026 in San Francisco this week. The event brought together policymakers, technologists, investors, and enterprise leaders to examine how artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation to large-scale operational impact. Unlike many AI-focused events centered on model performance or speculative futures, this summit emphasized execution, governance, infrastructure readiness, and workforce transformation.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
When your CISO mentions 'AI security' in the next board meeting, what exactly do they mean? Are they talking about protecting your AI systems from attacks? Using AI to catch hackers? Preventing employees from leaking data to an unapproved AI service? Ensuring your AI doesn't produce harmful outputs?
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
Running a network today often means reacting to alerts, chasing issues across sites, and switching between tools just to understand what's happening. When visibility is fragmented, day-to-day operations suffer: mean time to resolution (MTTR) increases, more IT resources get pulled into investigations, and escalations rise as your IT teams spend valuable time stitching together context across environments.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
The Cisco AI Summit 2026 was a gift to the industry. There was no registration page, no product announcements, only very subtle Cisco marketing and some really excellent and unscripted conversations. All open. All free.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
Machine data underpins observability and diagnosis in modern computing systems, including logs, metrics, telemetry traces, configuration snapshots, and API response payloads.
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