Cisco Live in Amsterdam has provided the platform for the company to showcase its latest innovations to the EMEA region.
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Highlights of the event include Cisco detailing how it is preparing for a sustainable and digitally connected future, along with providing training in digital skills over the next ten years.
Cisco Live 2023 Amsterdam has allowed customers and partners to gain an insight into what Cisco has planned so they can adjust their ecosystems to fit the innovations.
Wendy Mars, President of Cisco’s EMEA region, said: “Our customers rely on us to keep them connected and secure, with uninterrupted access to the apps they need to run their businesses efficiently and to continue to adapt and grow.
“That trust is something we’ve forged over many years, and the close collaboration between our teams and our customers and partners fuels the innovation we have on display here in Amsterdam.
“Working together, we have the power to use technology to solve the world’s most profound challenges and to build a secure, digitally connected future that’s both sustainable and prosperous.”
Full-Stack Observability Platform
Cisco has announced a preview of the Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform during the event to allow customers and partners to gain knowledge and build their community.
The platform, scheduled for general availability in June 2023, allows teams to bring together telemetry data from their context and drive correlated insights across the entire IT estate.
AI-driven root cause analysis can be viewed in any type of infrastructure and multi-cloud configuration, along with performance impact and experience tracing through network issues and security vulnerabilities.
Liz Centoni, EVP, Chief Strategy Officer, and GM, Applications, commented:
“Organisations demand more integration points to understand what potential problems and vulnerabilities exist and how to fix them before they impact the company and send customers looking for a better experience somewhere else.
“Cisco Full-Stack Observability delivers insights with real business context — critical in a world where ‘experience’ is the new KPI.”
According to Cisco, the Full-Stack Observability combines the most comprehensive telemetry data. It is driven by OpenTelemetry, which comes from the broad portfolio of Cisco capabilities and its ecosystem of partners and open-source tools.
The platform allows organisations to spawn an application ecosystem built on an open-source architecture.
Unlike data lakes, Cisco Full-Stack Observability is driven by use cases and business contexts calibrated to specific business outcomes rather than simply querying data itself.
Sustainable and Digitally Connected Future
During the Cisco Live 2023 event, the company announced Carbon Missions Insights in its Webex Control Hub.
The insights deliver actionable insights to allow organisations to meet their sustainability goals.
According to Cisco, it is the first to provide scope two emissions reporting. The solution also provides recommendations for optimising energy consumption and usage of Cisco Webex devices.
In Amsterdam, Cisco will showcase Cisco Refresh and Cisco Green Pay programs, energy-saving dashboards focused on visibility and automation, and an interactive sustainability simulator so attendees can see the impact of each solution on a model network.
Automation for Industrial IoT
Cisco states that organisations are extending their networks to new places as they need to connect core enterprise operations to industrial spaces.
These organisations are also prioritising sustainability and resiliency in their operations and, as a result, are driving the need for greater visibility across their environments.
At Cisco Live Amsterdam, the company has announced innovations in cloud-managed networking to help customers simplify their IT operations.
Cisco’s new cloud management tools for industrial IoT applications, simplified dashboards for IT and OT operations, and flexible network intelligence are all designed to offer a unified experience to give true business agility.
Provision of Digital Skills
Cisco has announced its goal to train 10 million people in digital and cybersecurity skills, over the next ten years, across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
The company has stated it intends to do this through Cisco’s Networking Academy, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2023.
Guy Diedrich, SVP and Chief Innovation Officer, Cisco, said: “We need a global workforce equipped with digital skills to develop sustainable and secure businesses and more equitable societies.
“Building a local pool of next-generation talent is critical to long-term social inclusion and economic resilience.
“It takes an entire ecosystem working together to achieve this. Through Cisco Networking Academy partnering with local organisations, we have impacted the lives of 17.5 million students over the past 25 years.”
The training is part of Cisco’s 10-year plan to empower 25 million people worldwide with the skills they need to design, manage, and safeguard the digital systems that modern societies rely on.
Mars added: “Digital skills are in short supply across the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region, which should be a cause for concern for all of us.
“With access to a strong talent pool, it will be easier to continue the digital transformation at pace.
“I’m proud of the achievements of the Cisco Networking Academy to date and look forward to welcoming many more skilled people from diverse backgrounds to the industry.”
To provide the training needed, Cisco has partnered with Randstad, a leader in the HR services industry, to help talent develop their digital skills and prepare them to navigate the digitalised labour markets.
Cisco and Randstad aim to re-skill and upskill 300,000 people in cybersecurity, programming and infrastructure automation.
Security Cloud Vision
Cisco customers can now access new risk-based capabilities across Cisco’s security portfolio to better protect hybrid work multi-cloud environments.
Following the general availability of Risk-Based Authentication, users now have the access they need, and real-time contextual signals secure it.
Cisco has also announced its industry-first Business Risk Observability, an enhancement of Cisco’s Full-Stack Observability application security solution.
The company states these advancements demonstrate progress towards realising the full vision of the Cisco Security Cloud, which will protect the integrity of an organisation’s entire IT ecosystem.
