Cisco taps AI, partners to modernize IT operations and fortify network security
Cisco’s annual Partner Summit is underway in Vancouver, where the vendor unveiled features and capabilities directed at partners and end-user organizations.
Cisco’s annual Partner Summit is underway in Vancouver, where the vendor unveiled features and capabilities directed at partners and end-user organizations.
The short version
- “AI workloads are placing new demands on infrastructure, and agents are entering production workflows.
- At the same time, AI-discovered vulnerabilities are rapidly reshaping the threat landscape.
- Cisco Model Foundry is a new platform service in Cisco Cloud Control that lets customers and partners use Cisco AI models, fine-tuning them and running them using the customer’s own data, from one location.
What happened
“Model Foundry opens up the models Cisco has built on four decades of networking, security, and operations knowledge,” wrote DJ Sampath , senior vice president and general manager, Cisco AI software and platform in a blog post . Those models include Deep Networking or Time Series as well as open models like Anteres, Foundation-SEC, and SecureBERT.
Why it matters
“Several of them previously ran only inside our own products,” Sampath wrote.
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