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CISCO, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026

The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing Down Manufacturing Transformation

Vol 337 · Issue 4 · 2026-04-23

You've identified the use cases. You've built the business case. You're ready to deploy AI on the shop floor-predictive maintenance, machine vision for real-time quality control, digital twins, autonomous robotics, virtual PLCs. And then the project stalls. It's not the technology that stops you. It's the network underneath it.

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The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing Down Manufacturing Transformation

CISCO, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026

Energy Will Define The Scale Of AI

Vol 337 · Issue 4 · 2026-04-22

In France, Cisco is working with a major European bank to design a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) data center. This new system is being built to reduce energy costs and shrink the bank's AI compute footprint. It combines high-density compute, immersive cooling, and advanced network automation to manage the growing demands of AI workloads.

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Energy Will Define The Scale Of AI

CISCO, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026

30 Years As A CCIE: Why Certifications Matter In The AI Era

Vol 337 · Issue 4 · 2026-04-22

Only a handful of professionals have maintained their CCIE certification for three decades. Salman Asadullah is one of them-and after delivering 300 customer engagements through Netnology over the past eight years, including in today's AI-driven era, he says the certification is more relevant now than ever before.

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30 Years As A CCIE: Why Certifications Matter In The AI Era

Cisco, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026

Securing AI Scale Infrastructure Without Compromise

Vol 337 · Issue 3 · 2026-04-15

Infrastructure is evolving fast. AI workloads are scaling rapidly. Encrypted traffic is now the norm. Applications are distributed across data centers, cloud, and edge. Across enterprise, hyperscale, neocloud, and telecom environments, one thing is clear: performance expectations are rising-and security has to keep up.

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Securing AI Scale Infrastructure Without Compromise

Cisco, Tuesday, April 14th, 2026

Cisco Just Made Moves To Own The AI Infrastructure Stack

Vol 337 · Issue 3 · 2026-04-14

By bulking up AI observability with Galileo and identity with Astrix, Cisco is repositioning its secure network as the control plane for the agentic era. It's a calculated bet that the company best known for building the internet's infrastructure can now govern what runs on top of it.

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Cisco Just Made Moves To Own The AI Infrastructure Stack

Cisco, Tuesday, April 14th, 2026

Can Your Infrastructure Management Tools Do That

Vol 337 · Issue 3 · 2026-04-14

Managing IT infrastructure has never been more demanding. Server estates span data centers, colocation facilities, and distributed edge locations. AI workloads are accelerating. And IT teams are expected to do more with less, often juggling multiple vendor tools that barely talk to each other.

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Can Your Infrastructure Management Tools Do That

Cisco, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026

Celebrating The Month Of Meraki

Vol 337 · Issue 1 · 2026-04-02

March was an incredible month for the Cisco Meraki developer community. Every Thursday, we released a new video dedicated to showcasing how you can leverage the Meraki platform to build smarter, more automated, and highly observable networks.

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Celebrating The Month Of Meraki

Cisco, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026

Stop The DIY Gamble: Why Validated AI Infrastructure Wins

Vol 337 · Issue 1 · 2026-04-02

Building enterprise AI infrastructure isn't unlike building a high-performance computer. You can source every component yourself-handpicking the GPU, motherboard, cooling system, and OS-and hope it all works together. Or you can go with a pre-engineered version: tested, integrated, and ready to handle serious workloads right out of the box.

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Stop The DIY Gamble: Why Validated AI Infrastructure Wins

Cisco, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026

Why Full-Stack Post-Quantum Cryptography Cannot Wait

Vol 337 · Issue 1 · 2026-04-01

As large enterprises modernize their networks for the AI era, one challenge stands out: the looming risk posed by quantum computing. At Cisco Live 2026 Amsterdam, Cisco responded by introducing what we describe as the industry's first full-stack post-quantum cryptography (PQC) architecture.

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Why Full-Stack Post-Quantum Cryptography Cannot Wait

Cisco, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026

Beyond MTTR: Why The Future Of It Is Preventative, Not Reactive

Vol 337 · Issue 1 · 2026-04-01

For years, we measured success by how fast we could fix broken systems. Then we had an outage that changed everything. We realized we weren't measuring the right thing. The real win wasn't speed-it was prevention. By unifying our observability data, we can now stop problems forming before they hit our users.

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Beyond MTTR: Why The Future Of It Is Preventative, Not Reactive

Cisco, Friday, March 20th, 2026

Identity Is The Battleground

Vol 336 · Issue 3 · 2026-03-20

In Part 1 of this series, we reached three conclusions: The battlefield has shifted to cloud-native, container-aware, AI-accelerated offensive tools - VoidLink being the most advanced example - specifically engineered for the Kubernetes environments; most security organizations are functionally blind to this environment; and closing that gap requires runtime security at the kernel leve

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Identity Is The Battleground

Cisco, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026

Monetizing The AI Opportunity: How Cisco AI Grid With NVIDIA Transforms Networks Into AI Platforms

Vol 336 · Issue 3 · 2026-03-17

AI has shifted from model training to enterprise-scale execution. In 2026, generative AI, agentic systems, and real-time inferencing are rapidly moving from pilot towards integration into core operations, products, and customer experiences-representing the next major industry opportunity. From public safety, intelligent transportation, and smart manufacturing to smart cities, AI will be powering the physical world.

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Monetizing The AI Opportunity: How Cisco AI Grid With NVIDIA Transforms Networks Into AI Platforms

Cisco, Friday, February 27th, 2026

Simplify Network Monitoring With Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker

Vol 335 · Issue 4 · 2026-02-27

Today's data centers rely on a variety of tools to provide enhanced visibility and observability of critical application traffic and traffic flow details. Utilizing switch-based telemetry capabilities is an extremely popular approach, but it's often the case that packet details or granular traffic filtering are desired; thus, a complementary solution is required.

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Simplify Network Monitoring With Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker

Cisco, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026

How Safe Are GPT-OSS-Safeguard Models?

Vol 335 · Issue 3 · 2026-02-18

Large language models (LLMs) have become essential tools for organizations, with open weight models providing additional control and flexibility for customizing models to their specific use cases. Last year, OpenAI released its gpt-oss series, including standard and, shortly after, safeguard variants, focused on safety classification tasks.

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How Safe Are GPT-OSS-Safeguard Models?