Cisco Continues Elevating Companion AI Capabilities to Meet Buyer Demand

At Cisco Stay 2024 in Las Vegas, there was as a lot dialogue as pleasure round Cisco’s Synthetic Intelligence (AI) innovation. Throughout each stage, Cisco executives highlighted the unimaginable energy of our AI technique, particularly in assembly buyer wants. Innovation is on the coronary heart of every little thing Cisco does, and that is notably true for AI, the place buyer demand for AI-powered applied sciences is extraordinary, and companion alternatives are substantial. AI is a chief instance of how we’re better collectively, with companions bridging the hole between Cisco AI know-how and distinctive buyer use instances.

Cisco permits companions to assist clients harness the facility of AI

Cisconians are pleased with our AI historical past and experience in addition to utilizing AI to boost our personal merchandise. As Cisco expands its AI portfolio, our distinctive differentiator stays our unmatched capability to offer the infrastructure that AI requires, alongside giving clients entry to an infinite quantity of related knowledge. Our acquisition of Splunk has not solely created one of many largest software program firms globally, however our complementary capabilities in AI, safety, and observability will unlock the great worth of information for purchasers of all sizes.

Cisco investing to scale companions’ AI maturity

The accelerating urgency for purchasers to deploy and leverage AI-powered applied sciences is driving a considerable alternative for our companions to construct worthwhile AI practices. Cisco is dedicated to making sure our AI providing serves each companions’ enterprise objectives and backside line, making everybody smarter and any group higher. Cisco is transferring the needle quicker than ever earlier than, serving to companions and clients obtain extra and succeed greater, proof of the current AI launches and the promise of extra to come back.

AI launches to boost companion capabilities

At Cisco Stay, we introduced a number of AI launches designed to boost companion capabilities and success in our collective AI journey, providing extra worth to our shared clients:

Cisco Nexus HyperFabric — Cisco’s totally managed knowledge fabric-as-a-service

This revolutionary full-stack, cloud-managed AI resolution is designed to eradicate deployment complexities and streamline AI implementations. Companions can help clients in designing, deploying, and managing their AI-based networks at scale—all by means of a user-friendly interface or APIs. With Cisco dealing with the infrastructure, companions can give attention to driving enterprise goals and accelerating time-to-value, whereas enabling clients to harness the total worth of AI to propel innovation and progress. It’s about assembly our mutual clients the place they’re and the way they need to eat Cisco know-how.

Cisco’s AI Fundamentals for Companions

The primary stage of our AI companion specialization coaching collection begins with AI Fundamentals, equipping companions with the information wanted to optimize infrastructure for AI workloads utilizing Cisco know-how. Companions will discover AI fundamentals, together with key ideas and phrases, progressing by means of the taxonomy of AI options, in addition to Cisco’s AI technique, dangers, governance, and actual use instances to grasp AI resolution implementation—in, on, and thru Cisco’s platforms. With the mission of elevating our complete companion ecosystem and empower buyer outcomes, Cisco invitations all our companions to speculate on this customized studying journey from Cisco Black Belt, obtainable freed from cost.

Register for the AI Fundamentals for Companions coaching in Cisco Black Belt Academy. 

And that is just the start. Within the coming months, Cisco will present companions with extra alternatives to be acknowledged for his or her capability to promote, deploy, construct upon, and function Cisco AI applied sciences. This contains expanded coaching with superior ideas to assist companions develop extra advanced AI options, in addition to specialised instruments and early entry to Cisco’s AI-based merchandise. Keep tuned for extra bulletins, together with at Companion Summit, about how we’re planning to assist our companions’ AI practices.

Thrilling New AI Award

Given the excessive buyer demand, our dedication to AI and empowering companions is a part of every little thing we do. Beforehand introduced, Cisco is championing companions who leverage AI by means of a brand new AI-specific award class within the annual International Companion Innovation Problem. This new AI award incorporates a $200K USD prize, specializing in innovation, influence, Cisco alignment, technical feasibility, and scalability. Final yr, 41 % of submissions integrated AI—a quantity we’re assured will proceed to extend. Register for the Companion Innovation Problem.

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