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Cisco Blogs, April 28,2026
5 signs your data center is holding your AI strategy back
Business leaders are demanding AI strategies. They want faster insights, smarter automation, and measurable returns. Many industry experts argue that the biggest hurdle to AI adoption is a lack of a clear objective - a strategy problem.
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Techstrong.IT, Friday, April 24th, 2026
Cisco's Quantum Switch Aims For Network Interoperability
Cisco has debuted the Universal Quantum Switch, a prototype quantum networking switch built to route quantum information between systems that encode data in different ways. This type of interoperability has so far been impractical because translating quantum information typically destroys the fragile quantum state.
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CISCO, Friday, April 24th, 2026
Announcing Cisco Availability In Google Cloud Marketplace: A New Path To Scalable Partner-Led Growth
The way enterprise customers buy is changing. Procurement is increasingly consolidating around cloud marketplaces, not just as a convenience, but as a strategic mechanism to align technology adoption with pre-committed cloud spend. In this model, the question is no longer what to buy, but how to buy it efficiently within the frameworks customers already use.
more → Search Networking, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
Cisco Unveils Quantum Network Advancements
Cisco's quantum switch prototype operates like a data center switch and supports four encoding modalities. It marks a step forward in making quantum computing 'broadly viable.'
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CISCO, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
The Switch That Quantum Networking Has Been Waiting For
Quantum computing is the future of computational power. It's expected to transform how complex problems are solved in a wide range of industries, from drug discovery and financial modeling, to weather predictions, and cybersecurity. But how and when will quantum computing become accessible to these fields and beyond?
more → CISCO, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing Down Manufacturing Transformation
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.
more → CISCO, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
The Innovation Paradox: How We Reduced Incidents By 25% While Deploying Faster
Every IT leader faces the same paradox: innovate faster while maintaining rock-solid stability. At Cisco IT, we were deploying AI systems and new technologies at breakneck speed-and watching our incident rate climb. Then we turned it around. Here's how we reduced major incidents by 25% in one year while accelerating our pace of innovation.
more → CISCO, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
Energy Will Define The Scale Of AI
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.
more → CISCO, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
30 Years As A CCIE: Why Certifications Matter In The AI Era
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.
more → CISCO, Monday, April 20th, 2026
From Automation To Autonomy: Cisco And Rockwell Power A New Era For Manufacturing
The factory floor is where innovation often shows up first, and where it's tested the hardest. Systems are always on. Decisions happen in milliseconds. Downtime and errors carry immediate cost.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
Securing AI Scale Infrastructure Without Compromise
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.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
Cisco Just Made Moves To Own The AI Infrastructure Stack
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.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
Can Your Infrastructure Management Tools Do That
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.
more → Cisco, Monday, April 13th, 2026
Preparing For Post Quantum Cryptography The Secure Firewall Roadmap
Nearly every piece of data that moves across your network and the internet at large is protected by encryption. Encryption works by using math problems that today's computers simply can't solve fast enough to crack. That's about to change.
more → Cisco, Thursday, April 9th, 2026
Making AI Trustworthy And Observable In Real-Time: Cisco Announces Intent To Acquire Galileo
AI is unlocking unprecedented opportunities while also driving unprecedented change. Organizations across the globe are investing heavily to capitalize on this opportunity and are incorporating agentic AI systems into their core business processes.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
Rising To The Era Of AI-Powered Cyber Defense
The world of cybersecurity has fundamentally changed.
more → Cisco, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
Hello NIST, Meet Duo: Why Mapping Cisco Duo to NIST CSF 2.0 and NIST 800-53 Matters for the US Public Sector
Cisco Duo is a leading security first Identity and Access Management with end-to-end phishing resistance, and zero-trust security platform designed to verify user identities and secure access to applications and data.
more → Cisco, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
The Multiplier Effect: Solving The AI Paradox In 2026
For years, wireless was the 'invisible utility'-the background noise of the office that only commanded attention when the connection dropped. It was managed for cost, not for growth.
more → Cisco, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Breaking The Wireless AI Paradox: Turning Challenges Into Competitive Advantage
The data from our Cisco State of Wireless 2026 report reveals something striking: AI is simultaneously the biggest growth opportunity and the biggest operational challenge facing enterprise wireless networks today.
more → Cisco, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Unlocking The Future: Why 6 Ghz Wi-Fi Is The Foundation For The AI Era
AI is rewriting how businesses compete and how governments deliver services. But here's the uncomfortable truth nobody's saying out loud: most networks aren't built for what AI demands.
more → Cisco, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Celebrating The Month Of Meraki
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.
more → Cisco, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Stop The DIY Gamble: Why Validated AI Infrastructure Wins
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.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
Why Full-Stack Post-Quantum Cryptography Cannot Wait
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.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
Building Trust in Generative AI Together: Cisco's Role in the NIST GenAI Program
Trust is often talked about as the necessary foundation of AI, but in reality, it is not something we can simply declare. It has to be built, tested, and proven over time.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
Beyond MTTR: Why The Future Of It Is Preventative, Not Reactive
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.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Don't Deploy OpenClaw Without Securing It - Try This Opensource Solution And Hands-On Lab
OpenClaw becomes powerful the moment it can connect a model to tools, skills, MCP servers, and a live workspace. That is also the moment security stops being optional.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
The Multimillion-Dollar Fabric Decision: Why Neoclouds Need Unified Networks
An enterprise CFO reviews AI spend: training bills are spiking at a hyperscaler where they already have contracts in place, even if their data does not live exclusively there; inference performance is lagging; and a neocloud pilot is on the table.
more → Cisco, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Scaling AI Demands A New Infrastructure Playbook
Moving from AI pilot to production exposes hidden bottlenecks in compute resources, networking, and security. Here's how to solve for that.
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Cisco, Monday, March 30th, 2026
When Buying Models Become Architecture Decisions
For years, enterprise infrastructure decisions followed a familiar pattern: plan big, buy once, deploy, and run for years. That model worked when environments were relatively static and technology change was predictable.
more → Cisco, Friday, March 20th, 2026
Identity Is The Battleground
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
more → Cisco, Thursday, March 19th, 2026
Cisco Secures AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA Bluefield DPUs
AI is reshaping how we process data, solve complex problems, and deliver digital experiences. But your AI environment is only as secure as the infrastructure it runs on-and attackers know exactly where to look for weaknesses.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
Your AI Incident Response Success Relies On Security Architecture
Before we can understand how AI changes the security landscape, we need to understand what data protection means in enterprise contexts. This is not compliance. This is architecture.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
Simplify Access Switching For Lean IT Teams With Cisco Catalyst 1300X Series Switches
When your network needs to support more devices, faster Wi-Fi, and higher power at the edge-without adding complexity-switching becomes a strategic investment in your future.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Launches on Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA expands with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs
more → Cisco, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
Cisco And Microsoft: Co-Engineering Security For Cloud And AI Journeys
At Cisco, we understand the unique challenges cloud and AI bring to every organization. That's why we've forged partnerships with cloud service providers like Microsoft for their scale, flexibility, and expertise.
more → Cisco, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Monetizing The AI Opportunity: How Cisco AI Grid With NVIDIA Transforms Networks Into AI Platforms
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.
more → Cisco, Friday, February 27th, 2026
Simplify Network Monitoring With Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker
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.
more → Cisco, Thursday, February 26th, 2026
Leaked Google API keys can unlock Gemini API access and surprise bills
Most of us understand how much AI can help small businesses, from organizing competitor information to analyzing data and standing out online. Now more than ever, small and medium-sized business leaders are using AI to brainstorm about business strategy, streamline workflows, and speed up processes.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
Upskilling In The AI Era - FY25 Purpose Report
According to the Cisco AI Readiness Index, close to a third of organizations surveyed report that employees are limited in their willingness to adopt AI. Not so at Cisco.
more → Cisco, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
Powering The AI-Driven Last Mile For MSOs: Assured Performance With Cisco Routed PON
The demand for high-speed broadband is surging, driven by the exponential growth of AI and streaming traffic. The State of Disaggregation Report 2025 by RtBrick found that 81% of surveyed network operators believe their current architectures are unprepared for future bandwidth demands.
more → Cisco, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
Extending Infrastructure Fabric: The Journey To Cloud-Native Isovalent Networking
Nico Vibert is Director of Technical Marketing Engineering for Isovalent at Cisco. Isovalent, acquired by Cisco in 2024, leverages eBPF, Cilium, and Tetragon technology, which have become de facto building blocks for cloud-native networking infrastructure.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, February 20th, 2026
Cisco Unveiled Silicon One G300, Advanced Systems And Optics To Power And Scale AI Data Centers For Agentic Era
G300-powered Cisco N9000 and 8000 systems, advanced optics and management upgrades deliver hyperscale-level performance, reliability and efficiency for all AI network builders
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Cisco, Friday, February 20th, 2026
Unlocking The Future: How Cisco Networking App Marketplace Partners Enable Scalable AI-Ready Devices For Your Customers
As AI-driven transformation accelerates across industries, enterprises face unprecedented demands on their networks. AI workloads require infrastructure that is not only scalable and high-performing but also secure and easy to manage.
more → Cisco, Friday, February 20th, 2026
Managing Industrial Security At Scale: Introducing Cyber Vision Site Manager And Splunk App
Your industrial footprint keeps expanding - more manufacturing plants, pumping stations, and power substations. But your security team isn't growing at the same pace. Here's what keeps CISOs awake: every new site increases your attack surface while resources stay flat.
more → Cisco, Friday, February 20th, 2026
Converged North-South Networks: The Critical Path For AI Success
When we talk about building AI data centers, east-west GPU fabrics often steal the spotlight. But there's another traffic path that's just as critical: north-south connectivity. In today's AI environments, how your data center ingests data and delivers results at scale can make or break your AI strategy.
more → Cisco, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
When Retail AI Meets The Store Floor
A shopper walks into a store with a specific need. Maybe they're fixing an irrigation system, planning a meal, or trying to resolve a membership issue.
more → Cisco, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
Cisco Explores The Expanding Threat Landscape Of AI Security For 2026 With Its Latest Annual Report
Thank you to all of the contributors of the State of AI Security 2026, including Amy Chang, Tiffany Saade, Emile Antone, and the broader Cisco AI research team.
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Why Post-Quantum Cryptography Matters For Securing Campus And Branch Networks
As quantum computing rapidly advances, it presents a profound threat to the cryptographic foundations that currently secure our digital communications. This risk is particularly pronounced in the campus and branch networks that connect a vast array of today's users, IoT and OT devices, and applications across multiple, diverse locations
more → Cisco, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
New AI repos catalog at Cisco DevNet Code Exchange
In Code Exchange, with thousands of code repositories, you can find examples created and maintained by Cisco engineering teams, community contributors, and individual developers.
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