Secure Client Management capabilities aren’t going away with the SecureX EOL, the functionality is simply migrating to the Cisco Security Cloud Control service.

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With the SecureX End of Life (EoL) quickly approaching on July 31, 2024, we want to ensure you have accurate information on how you will be able to continue accessing Cisco Secure Client Cloud Management capabilities. Client Management capabilities are not going away as part of the SecureX EOL, the functionality is simply migrating to the Cisco Security Cloud Control service.

Cisco Secure Client is our security endpoint agent which contains many capabilities you may know by its features, such as AnyConnect, Secure Endpoint, Umbrella, ISE Posture, and Network Visibility. The ability to manage Secure Client deployments, inclusive of configurations and software updates, is key to successful installations.

The standalone Cisco Secure Client application will transfer existing orgs and data from SecureX to the new Secure Client experience. It now uses the Cisco Design system matching Meraki, Cisco XDR, Secure Access, etc. From this Client dashboard, user may review metrics and search for devices with deployments.

Awareness of a client’s installation status and version allows organizations to understand when systems are running out-of-date software. The ability to create agent deployment packages allows organizations to simplify packaging the software for initial deployment. This brief demo explains how Secure Client transitions into a stand-alone application that will transfer existing orgs and data from SecureX.

All customers entitled to Cisco Secure Client are eligible to use Secure Client Cloud Management via Cisco Security Cloud Control. Existing customers will be transitioned from accessing these capabilities via SecureX to Cisco Security Cloud Control as part of this transition without any interruption to end users. All capabilities for managing Secure Client will continue to be available after the transition including client management, visibility into enrolled endpoints, creating client deployment packages, and maintaining client profiles. Device Insights capabilities are not part of Secure Client Cloud Management and will not be available in the new interface.

If you have not previously deployed Secure Client Management capabilities and are a licensed Secure Client customer who would like to do so, please contact the Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and they will help you get set up.

The new Secure Client Cloud Management experience will continue to evolve after this transition, and we’re excited about what the future holds for this solution. For additional information on the new experience or migration, please review our SecureX EOL webinar or contact your Cisco Account/Partner Team.

We also invite you to learn more about Cisco XDR, our cloud-based Extended Detection and Response solution that simplifies security operations, providing a streamlined approach to quickly detect, prioritize, and respond to sophisticated threats.

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Learn how Cisco and Nutanix deliver operational ease, adaptability, and robust infrastructure through complete simplicity, complete flexibility, and complete resiliency delivered in the Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix solution.

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Today’s IT teams need to support legacy applications while remaining agile and capable of delivering on the latest trends and architectures. To do that, IT must manage VM-based applications alongside containerized workloads across disparate locations: edge, data center, and cloud. Add to this the growing need to protect and serve structured and unstructured data, and the complexity of this multidimensional challenge is clear.

In our last blog about the strategic partnership between Cisco and Nutanix, Danny McGinniss highlighted the truly unique aspects of our collaboration across engineering, support and services, and go-to-market to help our customers adopt hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions. We’ve already seen significant momentum in terms of joint innovation and customer success in the past six months.

Let’s now explore how this partnership delivers operational ease, adaptability, and robust infrastructure to address the challenges and opportunities that customers face within their IT operations across the three pillars of simplicity, flexibility, and resiliency.

Pillar 1: Complete simplicity – Make it easy and scalable with cloud operations

One of our goals is to help customers simplify their operations and user experience. Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix achieves this with integrated and easy lifecycle management covering deployment, expansion, and upgrade.

Two innovations in particular can help customers unlock industry-exclusive features and capabilities.

Innovation 1: Cisco Intersight Standalone Mode

For the first time, we’ve brought Cisco and Nutanix software management planes together to give our customers an integrated HCI architecture. Traditionally, Nutanix would integrate with servers directly, configuring them “out of the box” to run the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) software stack. We’ve now expanded that integration so that Nutanix Prism and Cisco Intersight management platforms work together to unlock Intersight’s full set of features within a Nutanix deployment.

Our software-as-a-service (SaaS) management platform provides global visibility and fleet management for all Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix nodes. From a global view, it is possible to achieve simplified management, inventory and monitoring, remote access, and configuration. The out-of-the-box experience and remote deployment and management process requires little to no onsite IT expertise, making installation, expansion, and full stack upgrades far easier.

Intersight Standalone Mode delivers operational simplicity through:

Remote zero-touch installation of Nutanix clusters, across any location worldwide
Unified architecture for small edge clusters (one or two nodes) and large data center clusters (up to 32 nodes)
Bare metal re-imaging of servers remotely, providing flexibility to install either supported hypervisor: AHV or ESXi
Hardware platform flexibility, including 1RU and 2RU servers with GPUs for inferencing at the edge
Quickly rolling out many clusters through parallelized deployments, expansions, and upgrades
Automated support delivered through Intersight: Proactive RMA, Connected TAC, security and field advisories, and support contract details

Innovation 2: GPT-in-a-Box

Our customers are actively evaluating and implementing generative AI (GenAI) tools to supercharge operational efficiency, reduce costs, improve decision-making, and achieve superior customer experiences. However, deploying AI-ready infrastructure can be complex and costly. This presents a great opportunity to deliver more validated and turnkey infrastructure solutions. The Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix offers “GPT-in-a-Box” that has been tested and validated with the most popular large language models.

By leveraging the defined best practices and testing detailed in this new Cisco Validated Design (CVD) that will publish by the end of May, customers get lower installation risk and a faster time to market for the LLM they choose to implement.

Customers will have the freedom to choose from a range of proven LLMs to help ensure their specific requirements are met. Operations will be streamlined for effective governance and cost-effective management leveraging Intersight and Nutanix Prism capabilities. Finally, we will be able to protect our customers’ valuable data using the built-in redundancy and high availability capabilities underpinning the joint solution. This CVD will jumpstart AI initiatives anywhere our HCI solutions are deployed, from centralized data centers to remote edge sites.

Pillar 2: Complete flexibility – Choose tomorrow’s infrastructure today

Flexibility is about giving customers the options they need to customize and optimize their infrastructure to meet business requirements now and in the future. Here are two examples:

Example 1: Reuse and repurpose Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) servers

Cisco UCS is an industry-leading platform that both adapts to our customers’ needs and gives them choices about how to repurpose and reuse their servers in any architecture–while maintaining full support from our operating system and technology partners.

Repurpose: Exclusive to Cisco UCS, customers can get ahead of business and operational changes with the flexibility to convert and repurpose their existing UCS general purpose rack servers with qualified components into Nutanix clusters. Before UCS, the traditional scenario would require Nutanix HCI customers to purchase and deploy net-new factory-installed servers dedicated to running Nutanix.

With Cisco UCS, we’ve pioneered the concept of a “software personality” in our server baseboard management controller (BMC) that allows in-field reprogramming of servers to Nutanix HCI appliances. Existing customers get to move freely to Nutanix without refreshing their hardware early, ultimately maximizing their investment and making operations more sustainable.

Reuse: If customers need to change, we give them additional flexibility and a straightforward way to make a sustainable choice to convert their Cisco HCI nodes back to general-purpose x86 servers across a range of operating systems.

Example 2: Fully integrated networking or DIY

In our last blog about the strategic partnership between Cisco and Nutanix, we showed how Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix gives customers the flexibility to choose a fully integrated network experience with UCS Fabric Interconnects, or deploy their own network fabric. For HCI architectures, a fast, reliable fabric is critical to maintain the high performance and uptime of inter-cluster traffic. We now offer two choices:

Make the network native to the solution: Customers can use Fabric Interconnects and Cisco VIC adapters to include the network natively into the solution. We’ve rigorously designed, implemented, and tested this approach to make sure networking best practices are in effect—always. Customers don’t have to worry about designing for performance, load balancing, and failover scenarios—these all come out of the box, pre-programmed into the network fabric as part of the Nutanix cluster.

Integrate your existing network into the solution: This is a great option for customers who prefer full control over the network design, or for edge locations with existing network implementations. Our joint solution with Nutanix supports a broad range of network switches and third-party NICs that come with clear guidance on how to successfully build a high-performance network for Nutanix.

Pillar 3: Complete resiliency – Fortify systems with built-in support and security

Security and infrastructure uptime are top of mind to keep digital-first businesses going and protected against threats. Our customers can reinforce their critical services and power resiliency through several features and capabilities built into our joint solution.

Built-in security: Cisco UCS gives you security features built into both hardware and software. This defends against unauthorized access and shrinks the threat surface. Here are some examples:

Security built into the entire development cycle—from initial design to implementation of every line of code we write, all the way through our secured supply chain.
Exclusive policy-driven controls enforce configuration consistency, enhanced auditing controls and reporting, role-based user groups and privileges enhanced with multi-factor authentication, certificate-based access, single sign-on, and more.
External and internal alerting and advisories, logging, and reporting with customizable secure communications transports, as well as support for Common Criteria and Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) modes.
Physical mitigations such as anti-tampering with immutable hardware roots of trust, anti-counterfeiting, chassis intrusion detection, locking security bezel, and fused security keys.

Cisco + Nutanix innovations: Cisco Compute Hyperconverged for Nutanix is one of a kind in the industry. Our joint innovations include:

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), the industry’s most secure, open, and comprehensive software-defined networking (SDN) solution, has an integration with Nutanix AHV to create application policies through ACI that push the network subnet configuration directly into Prism Central to be assigned to workloads. Cisco ACI and Nutanix Flow Network Security provide better-together defense-in-depth by providing inter and intra-EPG policy enforcement. Finally, the integration provides unified visibility across compute and networking, making configuration and troubleshooting faster and in sync across IT teams.
Our joint support model is the industry’s strongest and most efficient. We’re committed to helping Nutanix keep its phenomenal NPS score at 90+. We’ve connected our backend case management tools across our support organizations, so we can easily provide seamless support case handoffs. We’ve also optimized the case routing so our customers can open their cases directly with Cisco, routing their ticket across either company for the fastest possible resolution.
Cisco and Nutanix leverage the unique Cisco UCS policy model to define a best practice deployment with automated out-of-the-box server and network configuration. These policies ensure the correct settings are always applied without human error or configuration drift over time.

“Through Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix, Cisco and Nutanix have for the first time integrated our software management planes together to deliver a new, integrated HCI architecture for customers. This is an important milestone in our global strategic partnership as we work together to simplify hybrid multicloud and fuel business transformations for our customers,” said Ketan Shah, VP Product Management, Nutanix.

Just the beginning

We’ve only scratched the surface of the exciting new product innovations coming out of our strategic partnership with Nutanix. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements to come at .NEXT and Cisco Live US in June.

Learn how Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix can help you

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We will show up at Cisco Live armed with exclusive content, sessions, interactive demos, partner talks, games and several other opportunities to network, learn and celebrate. Here’s a sneak peek of what we’re preparing for you.

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Partners, get ready to go beyond the realms of Customer Experience (CX) this year.

We look forward to showing you the latest and greatest solutions at Cisco Live and how we can help you expand your horizons and succeed in this AI-driven era.

Our mission is to enable you to accelerate and elevate your skills and capabilities to drive customer business outcomes. In times of evolving automation, sustainable practices and a lifecycle-centric model, we want you to take full advantage of Cisco technologies and innovations to redefine possible, become more profitable, and deliver the best customer experience.

We will show up at Cisco Live armed with exclusive content, sessions, interactive demos, partner talks, games and several other opportunities to network, learn and celebrate. Here’s a sneak peek of what we’re preparing for you:

PSOCX-1014: “Partner-fueled Customer Success”

On Monday June 3, from 2:30-3pm, Matt Brady, Sr Director of Partner Success, and John Stone, Sr Director of Digital Customer Experience, will talk about how Cisco partners like you, are pivotal in creating outstanding customer engagements. Learn from success stories demonstrating accelerated value from Cisco solutions, and see how the latest services, platforms, and automation drive customer loyalty and operational efficiency.

PSOCX-1017: “Enabling partners to overcome customer complexity with AI and automation”

On Wednesday June 5, from 2:30-3pm, join me as I delve into the power of automation, AI and telemetry and how you can monetize an automation strategy and with the CX offerings, from Success Tracks to Partner Advanced Support.

If you have registered to the event, you can add these sessions and many others to your schedule now.

Customer Experience Booth #6574

Visit us at the Partner Hub kiosk inside the Customer Experience (CX) Booth in the World of Solutions area, where our experts will showcase PXP Practice Maturity, Success Tracks, PX Cloud and CX Cloud, software adoption and renewals, and much more.

Drop by at the CX Theatre in the booth for our Lightning Talks on Tuesday, June 4 from 1-1:15pm and on Wednesday, June 5 from 11:30-11:45am, where we will interview a partner on their sustainability and customer success practices. We will also have several AI activations from virtual expert holograms to photo booths and a dedicated hub with demos.

Get ready for Cisco Live – start now!

Stay tuned with the latest updates and get the essentials about the event on the Cisco Live website. For partner-exclusive content, access our Cisco Partner Launch Experience website, which goes live on Thursday, May 30. Find out what CX and other business units are preparing for you at the event!

Curious to know more about our CX partner strategy and portfolio? Visit our CX Partner Success Hub to learn how to build a sustainable customer success practice through success stories, FAQs, webinars, and more.

If you are on the go, tune in to our CX Partner Perspectives Podcast and listen to short interviews with executives and partner leaders on a multitude of topics about customer success, such as:

Episode 43: No pranks, all podcast: Introducing the CX Partner Framework
Episode 44: Finding Value in Success Tracks and The Gift with Purchase (CX Cloud)
Episode 45: Partner Profitability, Sustainability, and Longevity with Gabby McGee

Register today! Join us at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, June 2-6, 2024
in person or watch the global broadcast.

We’d love to hear what you think. Ask a Question, Comment Below, and Stay Connected with #CiscoPartners on social!

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Cisco Live 2024 is right around the corner. Hear from James Turrell, Head of CX Marketing and Communications, on what CX-led sessions and demos will be available to you in Las Vegas this year.

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Cisco Live starts in just a few weeks, running June 2-6 in Las Vegas, NV. This year’s theme is Go Beyond, and the Cisco Customer Experience (CX) team can help you do just that with the sessions, demos, and lightning talks we have planned for this year.

Have you mapped out your schedule for Cisco Live yet? I’m sure you want to learn about human and AI-driven services, plus more about achieving measurable business outcomes, so read on and add these sessions to your Cisco Live schedule.

Sessions

Here are sessions you will want to add to your schedule for Cisco Live in Las Vegas:

Reshaping Networking and Security to Fortify Your Digital Future

Discover how Cisco Customer Experience combines networking and security with data-driven insights and intelligent automation to provide a more standardized and scalable infrastructure. (PSOCX-1013 Cisco Theater, Monday, June 3, 11:30 AM PT)

Partner-Fueled Customer Success

Cisco partners are pivotal in creating outstanding customer engagements through innovative strategies and cutting-edge solutions. Learn from success stories that demonstrate accelerated value from Cisco’s offerings and see how the latest services, platforms, and automation drive customer loyalty and operational efficiency. (PSOCX-1014 Cisco Theater, Monday, June 3, 2:30 PM PT)

Accelerating AI-Ready Infrastructures and Execution Strategies

Learn how our AI strategy prepares you to accelerate your infrastructure transformation and AI adoption journey with Harry Caldwell, SVP & General Manager, Customer Experience, and Carlos Pereira, Fellow & Chief Architect in the Centerstage Theater. (CENCX-1004 Centerstage Theater, Tues June 4, 2:00 PM PT)

AI and Automation: Supercharge Business Outcomes to Go Beyond

Harness the transformative power of AI with the efficiency of automation to overcome new IT challenges and accelerate your pathway to operational excellence and beyond. (PSOCX-1011 Cisco Theater, Tues June 4, 10:30 AM PT)

Accelerate Your Transformation for an AI-Driven Era

Discover key strategies for creating an agile, resilient, efficient infrastructure, and beyond, including assessing requirements, prioritizing security and compliance, leveraging automation, and investing in the right skills to accelerate your transformation journey and equip your infrastructure for an AI-driven era.​ (PSOCX-1012 Cisco Theater, Tuesday, June 4, 3:30 PM PT)

Reimagining IT Operations with Gen AI

Learn how CX is using transformative capabilities of Gen AI, automation, and digital to boost self-service efficiencies and elevate your customer experience by enabling speedy problem resolution and proactive IT operations management. (PSOCX-1016 Cisco Theater, Wednesday, June 5, 12:00 PM PT)

Overcoming Complexity with Partners, AI and Automation

Learn how Cisco Customer Experience’s partner ecosystem leverages AI, Success Tracks, APIs, and Partner Advanced Support to build a successful automation strategy that delivers both technical and business outcomes. (PSOCX-1017 Cisco Theater, Wednesday, June 5, 2:30 PM PT)

Transforming Your Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future

Learn how Cisco Customer Experience and our partners can help you demonstrate and realize the value of a comprehensive sustainability strategy that lowers costs, reduces emissions, and enhances resource efficiency. (PSOCX-1012 Cisco Theater, Thursday, June 6, 12:30 PM PT)

Be sure to review the full schedule of Customer Experience sessions for Cisco Live 2024 and add them to your itinerary today.

Cisco Customer Experience Booth

If you will be in Las Vegas for Cisco Live this year, stop by the Cisco Customer Experience booth in the World of Solutions. With a dozen Cisco Customer Experience demos available to you at this year’s event, let’s get you ready to explore and start accelerating your business outcomes:

AI and Automation: Applied Intelligence for Simplified IT Management

Learn how AI and automation in services can help you reduce operational challenges and accelerate your IT services toward enabling business outcomes. Observe how these capabilities connect IT service disciplines, allow for faster & easier operation, and how to incorporate these capabilities into your infrastructure management.

Cisco Lifecycle Services: Future-Proof Your Infrastructure Solutions

Explore Cisco’s outcome-oriented service portfolio revolution and how it leverages automation and machine learning to drive business outcomes faster alongside partners. See how we help reduce risk, optimize productivity, and navigate change that enables your IT infrastructure to accelerate business priorities and deliver tangible, measurable results.

Success Tracks/CX Cloud: Maximize Your IT Investment Value

Improve operational efficiency and reduce risk with a 360-degree view of your network offering proactive digital insights; remove adoption roadblocks with expert best practices, and uplevel staff productivity and skills with learning resources delivered through Success Tracks, enabled by CX Cloud to maximize the value of your IT investments.

End-to-End Security Services: Prepare, Protect, and Respond to Threats Faster

Explore the wide range of CX Security services helping to strengthen your organization’s security resilience. From product-agnostic advisory, strategy, and security architecture-focused services to planning, design, and implementation of Cisco Security products – pre-defined or fully customized service solutions cover your complete services lifecycle.

TAC Innovations: Watch Support Get Faster With Automation

Get IT issues of any size resolved with greater speed, accuracy, and efficiency by automating complex data capture across your IT environment with RADKit; resolve problems on your own with relevant guidance from automated workflows; and more easily tap into self-service support with Cisco Support Assistant Extension on your browser.

Accelerated Value Realization: Driving Faster Outcomes With Customer Success  

Learn how to accelerate technology adoption, realize the value of your Cisco products faster, simplify product advancement through Cisco-validated best practices, and how and when to engage Cisco’s Customer Success Team.

Cisco Community

One of the most frequented Cisco digital properties is Cisco Community, which serves more than 1.4 million visitors every month and supports seven languages. Learn more about this trusted, online, peer-to-peer community and knowledge hub, where you have access to real-time answers and 24/7 advice.

Partner Hub: Learn How Partners Accelerate Business Outcomes

Visit the CX partner hub to learn how partners can enhance the customer experience with Cisco tools and platforms to accelerate business outcomes. Learn also how software adoption becomes the essential element in helping a customer get to their business outcomes.

Cisco Sustainability Services: Your Energy Efficiency Initiatives

Empower your sustainability journey with our latest CX offerings including Cisco Lifecycle Services – Energy Optimization Management for Data Center, Campus, and Assessment Advisory Services. No matter where you’re in your journey, our approach revolves around understanding the full spectrum of expectations and creating a tailored catalog of service solutions.

Other Demos in the World of Solutions

You can also find Cisco Customer Experience demos in the Cisco Showcase and the Cisco AI Hub:

Cisco Customer Experience: Faster Path to Maximizing IT Value – learn how Cisco CX leads the way to help our customers realize business outcomes faster at every step of the lifecycle. (Cisco Showcase)
Cisco Customer Experience: Your partners in sustainability – discover how Cisco Customer Experiences can partner with you on your sustainability initiatives. (Cisco Showcase)
Cisco Customer Experience: AI-Driven Services Innovations – experience the power of AI with Cisco’s cutting-edge support and network operations demos, see how Gen AI simplifies operations and resolves issues faster with AI-enhanced troubleshooting, test & validation, and configuration management. (Cisco AI Hub)

Located in the Cisco Customer Experience Booth Theater, we’ll be presenting more than 40 Lightning Talk sessions on 17 different topics including AI, Automation, Cisco Lifecycle Services, Security, Success Tracks, CX Cloud, TAC Automation, Customer Success, Sustainability, and customer use cases.

We have so much valuable information and content we want to share with you this year at Cisco Live in Las Vegas. I hope you’re looking forward to it. I know our CX team is!

Keep an eye on our blog site in the coming weeks – it’ll always have the most up-to-date information.

In the meantime, feel free to leave me a comment or a question below, and stay tuned for more info coming your way as we get close to the start of Cisco Live on June 2. See you in Las Vegas!

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Assurance is top of mind for our customers, analysts, and the market at large. This blog covers four reasons why assurance is more critical than ever, and why it should be on your radar as well.

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Last September, Cisco completed its acquisition of Accedian (now part of Cisco). As a foundational component in the Cisco assurance portfolio, Accedian Skylight provides the hyperprecise and granular performance data for critical service assurance and end-to-end service visibility.

We also bring the closed-loop, high-fidelity active testing that Cisco Crosswork requires for industry-leading network and service orchestration. Although our initial use cases were around automation and the Cisco Crosswork set of solutions, Accedian is well suited to solve performance and service visibility challenges across a wide array of different network architectures. There is significant potential for assurance to create new value across these environments, while also providing some “insurance” for the consistent delivery of customer experience.

Assurance and user experience requirements on the upsurge

Assurance is top of mind for our customers, analysts, and the market at large. Here are four reasons why assurance is more critical than ever, and why it should be on your radar as well.

1. Beat the squeeze—automate, differentiate, and win

Service provider economics are changing, and the margin squeeze is real. According to IHS Technology, one dollar of communications service provider (CSP) CapEx in 2022 needs to do 11 times the work it did in 2012.

So, how can CSPs keep a handle on their margins? Mass-scale infrastructure, software-defined networks, and modernized automation (the magic words). The economics of Cisco’s automation platform, Crosswork, speak for themselves: 60% CapEx savings, 66% OpEx savings, and 80% faster time-to-revenue for new assured services.

2. Stringent performance requirements up the ante, multidimensional complexity gets … more complex

On top of that squeeze, CSP environments are becoming more complex and more expensive to manage as they evolve to take advantage of cloud-native and 5G technologies. Future networks, network as a service (NaaS), MEC, 5G—the list goes on—require network-wide, stringent performance requirements (including latency) as they become more dynamic, flexible, and customizable. They need full-stack, even multidimensional observability, as they rearchitect their telco clouds. They also need forensically auditable performance data.

Analytics and AI make these networks more intelligent, more automated, but only if they have forensically auditable, highly granular data that can enable predictive and near real-time actions.

These network architectures will catapult network and service teams, beyond shoring up some margin and improving network and resource efficiency, to become the drivers of any telco’s digital agenda to enrich exceptional customer experiences and develop new innovative services that open new revenue and service tiering opportunities.

Traditional networks
Future networks with automated service assurance
Monolithic
Software-defined, NaaS
Slow
Agile
Manual, reactive maintenance
Digitized and automated
Standard feature sets
“Hyperpersonalized”—Classes of service, differentiated service tiers
Network data used for tracking and improvements
Network data used to generate broader business insights—improve, innovate, strategic differentiation

Figure 1: Future networks with intent-based, zero-touch service assurance
Source: McKinsey

3. They want it all, and they want it now

Customer demands are also increasing—they want it now, they want it hyperpersonalized, and they want it functioning perfectly. We are in the age of more—more new services, more innovative services, more bandwidth, more instant service, but hey, also, how about less cost?

Technology has changed the definition of “fast,” and as we say, “slow is the new down.” The evolution of consumer tastes and demands can indeed cause challenges for businesses, but also great opportunities.

Quality of experience (QoE) is a key driver for customer loyalty and assuring services now means assuring a customer experience. With the right technology in place, there is no reason a service provider cannot meet and exceed customer expectations.

The proof is in the granularity of visibility. Moving in real time requires real-time visibility and granular data that allows rapid change, improvements, and innovation. With Accedian’s microsecond-level accuracy and millisecond precision, control over service experience in a fast-moving 5G environment is well in hand.

Another new battlefield for customer experience? Self-service. Accedian’s real-time end-customer portals, providing transparency on the experience and service levels that they are receiving from their provider, allow you to check the box for service differentiation, for personalized, self-service management, and for fully capitalizing on cloud-native architectures. Additionally, real-time performance data can be used to proactively upsell existing clients facing service exhaust, all through their own (the end client’s) performance portal.

4. Assurance is absolutely foundational for closed-loop automation

A few years ago, we saw the signs. We saw how service providers and mobile operators would move towards network as a service (NaaS), with complex multivendor, multidomain, multicloud environments that had multiple operators in the loop. Too many multis—we like to call it the “massive multi.”

All those years ago, we saw how a SaaS-first performance analytics and monitoring solution, an intent-based service assurance platform with full-stack and granular visibility, would be an integral part of any next-generation network looking to automate beyond the use of automotives for drive testing.

As Patrick Kelly, Principal Analyst at Appledore Research, writes in the recent white paper, Intent-Based Networking – Automated Assurance’s Critical Success Factor, “Our focus on assurance is a deeply held belief that you can’t automate what you can’t measure, and you can’t measure what you can’t see or observe. Automated assurance is not an independent system. It is a collection of key technology assets that allows operators to process massive streams of telemetry data in near real time and extract a signal from the noise. This requires applied knowledge of the different technology domains and a full view up and down the 7 layers of the protocol stack.”

The listeners in the audience experience the concert, not just the percussionist who hasn’t missed a beat

Assurance of digital experiences is about all the orchestra sections working together, in sync, and without missing a beat. It is about ensuring that everyone stays on time, plays within their note thresholds, and delivers to the audience, the end users of the performance (credit on the metaphor belongs to Mark Leary from IDC, by the way).

Now that Accedian Skylight’s intent-based, zero-touch service assurance is a key component of the Cisco Service Assurance portfolio, we are excited to be on the journey to becoming a leader in the assurance and user experience space.

Learn more about Assurance withAccedian Skylight (now part of Cisco)

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Explore the many ways that Secure Email Threat Defense leverages sophisticated AI and ML to protect against advanced threats.

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Do you remember when attackers were sending the same email to everyone? Those days are long gone! Attacks are now more targeted, creative, and leverage reputable cloud applications to initiate malicious attacks that evade reputation detection engines.

The use of Machine Learning and Deep Learning models allows us to understand the intention of the message, who is sending it, and if the sender is pretending to be someone they are not. It also allows us to learn what a legitimate message looks like and identify the parts of an email that indicate malicious intent, making it easier to predict those markers in the future.

Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense uses these models to leverage multiple detection engines that simultaneously evaluate different portions of an incoming email to detect malicious intent while allowing legitimate messages to go through.

How do we do that? By generating signals based on data-driven detections. We then leverage those signals to create a verdict. However, it is important to understand that a signal generated does not mean a conviction as a signal alone does not provide the necessary information to decide the intent of the message.

Figure 1-Example of a Business Email Compromise detection and the generated signals

A notable example of how Cisco uses AI is the relationship mapping between senders and recipients. On average, only 8% of the incoming email traffic of an organization comes from new senders while the remaining 92% is from existing senders. However, if we consider the malicious messages, 90% of them come from new senders that were never seen before. Being able to understand if the sender is new or not generates a signal, which in conjunction with other signals, can be used to reach a verdict.

Another great example of how our solution leverages AI is the capability of detecting the impersonation of users and brands. Many times, attackers try to hide behind well-known brands to lure the user to trust their requests. Although there are mechanisms for email security to minimize these attempts (DMARC compliance), attackers can still reach the end user. AI allows us to understand which brand is being impersonated in the messages by searching for logos and other brand-related information.

We can then analyze the content of the message (subject, message text, request, signature, etc.) with what we know to be legitimate messages from that brand. If something doesn’t match, we generate a signal that will be used as part of the conviction decision.

There are other ways where we leverage AI like QR-code detection, call to action requests, sense of urgency, fake replies, and many other techniques that are used to trick the user.

Figure 2-Process of QR code detection in Email Threat Defense

With AI, even if the attacker changes the message text, format, or intent of the message, the Email Threat Defense will detect the threat and prevent these malicious messages from reaching the end users — keeping businesses and information safe!

When considering AI-driven email security, one thing is clear, the landscape of digital defense has been forever altered. By leveraging AI, businesses now have a powerful tool to use against evolving threats that target their users and information.

You can count on the Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense to keep your business and information secure. To see these signals in action, start a free trial today.

To read more about the AI in Secure Email Threat Defense, read the white paper.

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Step onto a campus reimagined—where Cisco's innovative digital integration meets modern educational needs, crafting an unparalleled on-campus experience for today's students and faculty.

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Transforming the University on-campus digital experience

Recent discussions with education leaders and industry analysts show a rapidly evolving scenario in the ‘post-COVID era’, where universities face increasing pressure to enhance the on-campus experience for students, faculty, and staff. These stakeholders now have higher expectations for how they digitally engage with their institution, academic life, their peers, and the broader university community.

To meet these demands effectively, universities must modernize their physical and digital infrastructures by integrating Information Technology (IT) with campus facilities strategies. This integration enables leveraging technology to enhance resource and space management, create sustainable environments, foster dynamic teaching and learning, streamline administrative tasks, and provide well-being services through seamless digital interactions.

The integration of IT with campus facilities management not only optimizes operations but also enriches the overall experience for all stakeholders involved. Here are the priority drivers we have heard from education leaders for the Next Generation Campus:

Learning Spaces Physical and Digital Convergence

Physical and digital convergence in university campuses involves more than just offering physical spaces for academic and social activities. It encompasses providing robust connectivity, ensuring cybersecurity, and creating environmentally sustainable environments that promote collaboration, innovation, and well-being. This convergence extends beyond traditional areas like lecture theatres, libraries, and laboratories to include non-traditional learning spaces such as canteens and other open spaces where students can access online course materials, engage in social media, and interact with peers and instructors on and off campus.

Improving User Experience

The campus plays various roles for students, serving as a place to access specialized equipment and a hub for social connection with peers and the institution. Beyond education, living and working on campus are significant aspects of college or university life. Integrating the IT network with campus facilities management enhances the experience for students, faculty, and staff by simplifying tasks and minimizing obstacles. Digital wayfinding systems facilitate navigation through campus buildings, while smart scheduling platforms streamline room reservations and event planning. These technological enhancements simplify tasks, minimize obstacles, and foster a more positive and productive campus experience.

Using Data to Maximize Space and Resource Utilization

Integrating IT infrastructure with campus facilities management generates a wealth of data that can inform strategic planning and decision-making processes. By utilizing the WI-FI network to capture data, universities can gain real-time insights into utilizing campus facilities, analyzing trends in space usage, energy consumption, and facility maintenance. This data empowers informed decision-making on space allocation, usage patterns, and resource optimization. Moreover, predictive analytics can anticipate future needs and challenges, enabling proactive interventions and risk mitigation strategies.

Enhancing Operational Efficiency

Integrating IT with campus facilities management streamlines administrative processes, enhancing efficiency and cost-effectiveness. This integration automates tasks such as remote working for administrative staff, contact center operations, room bookings, and maintenance requests. By reducing manual workloads and improving response times, digital systems optimize resource allocation, minimize overhead costs, and promote agility and responsiveness within the institution.

Supporting Sustainability Initiatives

Digital technologies play a crucial role in supporting sustainability initiatives on campus. Smart IoT sensors in the IT network for energy management systems optimize HVAC controls, lighting schedules, and power usage, reducing carbon emissions and energy costs. Additionally, digital tools facilitate waste management and recycling efforts, promoting sustainability awareness among the campus community.

Enhancing Safety and Security

Integrating IT with campus facilities management strengthens safety and security measures on campus. Digital signage, surveillance systems, access control mechanisms, and emergency notification platforms leverage digital technologies to monitor and respond to potential threats effectively. These systems enhance campus safety by providing real-time insights, communication capabilities, and peace of mind for students, faculty, and staff.

How Cisco Can Help

The integration of IT and campus facilities strategies represents a paradigm shift for universities to transcend traditional silos and foster a holistic approach to optimize campus operations and enhance the student experience. At the heart of this integration lies a reliable, secure, and connected digital infrastructure providing real-time insights into how physical spaces are utilized and services delivered. With combined IT and facilities strategies, universities can create smarter, more sustainable, and student-centric campus environments, with tangible benefits for operational enhancements and brand reputation.

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Cisco's Customer Advocate Awards are back! Cisco Advocates are change makers and innovators, and we'll celebrate our winners at Cisco Live in Las Vegas. To start, we're recognizing our finalists.

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The Cisco Customer Advocate Awards honor exceptional Cisco customers who exemplify innovation through their use of Cisco products and solutions, and who share their successes through thought leadership, including success stories, speaking engagements, product reviews, and more.

From executives to engineers, this years’ Cisco awards attracted an impressive mix of customers from across the Americas. We received 100+ nominations and relied on the expertise of more than 32 judges—a combination of Cisco leaders, engineers, architects, and technical specialists—to narrow the list of candidates.

We’re excited to announce the shortlisted nominees for the fourth annual Cisco Customer Advocate Awards: Americas 2024!

Cybersecurity Defender of the Year

In today’s connected world, robust cybersecurity protects organizations against cyber threats, safeguards intellectual property and customer data, and enables innovation. This is why the Cybersecurity Defender of the Year award recognizes the customer who prioritizes security in every aspect of their business. These customers use Cisco security solutions to enhance resilience, maximize user uptime, maintain business continuity, and empower employees across all environments.

Congratulations to our shortlisted nominees:

Raja Sambandam—State of New Mexico Office of Cybersecurity

Matthew Barczak and Paul Oyelakin—Marriott International

Dwayne Robinson—SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park

John Skaarup—Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)

Veronica Martinez Estrada—Grupo Xcaret

Hybrid Work Hero

How we work has changed, which is why the Hybrid Work Hero award recognizes the customer who has implemented the best hybrid work strategy to empower teams or rethink workspaces. Whether by using new solutions to make every space a collaborative workspace, modernizing their security to manage and protect employee devices, or designing the network to support seamless and cohesive work experiences, the Hybrid Work Hero deserves recognition for deploying a solution that makes hybrid work, work for everyone!

Congratulations to our shortlisted nominees:

Nicole Alderete-Ferrini—City of El Paso, Texas

Dale Walters—State of Illinois

Steve Hilliard—Ford Motor Company

Bill Sheff, Alex Pop, and Justin Priebe—M&T Bank

Wendy Williams—McKesson

Cisco Insider John Pell from ServiceNow, second from right, accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award at Cisco Live Amsterdam 2024. Pictured here with Agostino Santoni, Cisco Vice President of Sales, EMEA; Britney Bartlett, Vice President of Global Field Marketing; and Nieves Navarro, Vice President of Marketing, EMEA.

Reimagine Applications Visionary

Applications are the storefront for organizations today, and they’re used to innovate, transform the business, and take advantage of new digital models and revenue streams. The Reimagine Applications Visionary award honors the customer who uses Cisco Full-Stack Observability (FSO) to move beyond traditional monitoring. In doing so, these visionaries benefit from a comprehensive view of their applications’ performance, security, and impact on business outcomes. Recognizing their innovative use of open, extensible, and AI/ML-enhanced FSO solutions, this award celebrates those who have aligned IT operations with business goals to deliver seamless, secure user experiences.

Congratulations to our shortlisted nominees:

David Cornette and Jonathan Silberlicht—T-Mobile

James Kluttz—Sutter Health

Michael Verret—Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Pat Spinler and Matt Dupay—Mayo Clinic

Transformation Trailblazer

In today’s high-tech, high-expectation environment, simplified IT experiences help organizations satisfy customers, retain employees, and stand out from competitors. Organizations are adopting a cloud operating model across their IT stacks to enhance agility and streamline complexity, while prioritizing secure networking to manage risks and maintain superior user experiences despite an increasingly intricate threat landscape. The Transformation Trailblazer award recognizes the customer who excels in using Cisco solutions to simplify network and technology challenges and ensure secure global connectivity.

Congratulations to our shortlisted nominees:

Ron Grohman—Bush Brothers & Company

Jeanette Jaede and Arun Joshi—Amazon: Project Kuiper

Ian Hyatt—Purdue University

Jeff Peterson—LPL Financial

Leandro César Lopes Evangelista—Arena MRV

Todd Stewart—Honeywell International

Sustainability Changemaker

The Sustainability Changemaker award celebrates a customer who uses Cisco’s innovative solutions to help reduce environmental impacts and drive sustainability. From energy management platforms to smart building solutions that help optimize efficiency, to refreshed data center hardware built with circular design principles and more energy efficient infrastructure than previous generations, Cisco can help organizations embrace circularity and adapt to a low-carbon economy. This award recognizes transformative efforts in using Cisco’s solutions for energy management, data center modernization, clean energy transitions, circular business transformation, smart buildings, and other sustainability initiatives.

Congratulations to our shortlisted nominees:

Nicole Alderete-Ferrini—City of El Paso, Texas

Tim Roberts—St. Anne Institute

Dani Stern—Honeywell International

Roger Loo—NetApp

Artificial Intelligence Pioneer

The world is rapidly changing with the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the Artificial Intelligence Pioneer award celebrates the early adopter. These pioneers innovate through AI features within their Cisco products or integration with other AI product—whether their own solution or one created by an ecosystem partner. This award honors those who lead AI innovation, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and paving the way for the future of technology.

Congratulations to our shortlisted nominees:

Bruce Thompson, Phyllis Kimber, and Denise Beckwith—Georgia Department of Labor

Michael Verret—Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Industry Excellence

The Industry Excellence award celebrates organizations who use Cisco solutions to solve common challenges faced across their industry, especially those who have created industry-wide change. Celebrating organizations who surpass industry norms, this award recognizes exceptional achievements and the pursuit of progress in today’s environment.

Congratulations to our shortlisted nominees:

Max Hernandez—Toyota Motor North America

Jarrett Newberry and Robert Bibey—Burrell Behavioral Health

Sophia Mohr—Central Ohio Transit Authority

Mike (Mac) McNamara—Dish Network

Veronica Martinez Estrada—Grupo Xcaret

Americas Customer Advocate of the Year

The Advocate of the Year has consistently contributed to the greater Cisco Insider Advocates community, supporting others through mentorship, community building, best practice sharing, and advocacy. This award recognizes the customer whose acts of advocacy made the most significant impact on the Cisco community.

Congratulations to our shortlisted nominees:

Mark Rodrigue—Room & Board

Josh Beaver—T-Mobile

Marcus Labra—Carnival Corporation

Christopher Cavendish—Insight Global

Congratulations to all our Cisco Customer Advocate Awards: Americas 2024 finalists!

We applaud each of you for your passion, innovation, and thought leadership. We look forward to celebrating you at Cisco Live Las Vegas next month!

If you’d like to see which of these amazing finalists rises above the rest, join us during the awards ceremony on June 3! Register here.

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Cisco Hypershield places security enforcements exactly where and when it’s needed, seamlessly at cloud speed and in highly distributed environments.
Check out more of its key benefits here.

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Independence. The United States and many other countries have fought for it. Teenagers desperately seek it out. It has invaded every aspect of our shopping practices from self-check to buy now online. And now, it’s bringing corporations’ peace of mind when it comes to protecting their data centers and cloud.

Cisco Hypershield is a groundbreaking solution that features a new distributed architecture integrating network and workload enforcement points under a unified management system. In fact, this kind of independence is so revolutionary, corporations can feel empowered to take the backseat in how their modern applications are more effectively secured.

Embrace the Freedom

Since Cisco Hypershield enables superior efficacy, enhanced experiences, and better economics in securing customer application infrastructures and systems at AI scale, IT experts can experience a type of freedom seldom known before. Cisco Hypershield places security enforcements exactly where and when it’s needed, seamlessly at cloud speed and in highly distributed environments.

This solution has some key benefits:

Protection that reaches all areas of a customer’s network and taps into a broad range of previously unreachable workload and network enforcement points.
Close exploit gap that blocks application exploits in minutes, employs surgical compensating controls, and tests against live production traffic for optimal effectiveness.
Segmentation that continuously adapts, learns, and applies highly specific controls.
Management that is unified across the network with workloads to deploy software, policy updates with confidence and the enablement of safe testing without risking operations.

Unimaginable Freedom from Today’s Realities

Cisco Hypershield has some capabilities that were previously unimaginable to address customer realities like distributed exploit protection, autonomous segmentation, and self-qualifying updates. I’d like to share two of the key components of this solution.

AI- Native

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. It’s literally giving us more freedom with our time, opening language barriers, and helping us when we shop online or even think about shopping online. Cisco’s Hypershield solution was designed from the ground up with AI integration. This solution can systematically write, test, deploy, and manage its own rules while the AI assistant explains the analysis, behaviors, recommendations, and more.

Unified Cloud Management

Isn’t it nice when you have a centralized way to organize and manage your life? Most people have a family calendar that helps them stay on track with all the various activities and requirements for their day. Hypershield has a similar centrally organization and management console. New or updated policies are intelligently distributed to the appropriate enforcement points so your workloads can dynamically adapt to on-prem to public or between servers.

Moving toward Security Freedom

Since Cisco Hypershield was just announced, the solution is not ready for orderability. Once this solution is ready for orderability, it will be launched with unified cloud management enabled by Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO).

In the meantime, I highly recommend you learn more about this solution on the Cisco Hypershield SalesConnect page or on the At a Glance. This will be a great opportunity for our distributors, partners, and customers to see a new way of freeing up time so they can focus on other priorities.

Learn more about Cisco Hypershield here

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We invited the Cisco DevNet community to use automation and AI to demonstrate the significant role technology can play in addressing tech's ecological footprint. We were blown away by the community participation.

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The results are in for the Build for Better Code Challenge, highlighting two standout solutions that effectively combine automation or AI with sustainability. In this challenge, we asked you, the Cisco DevNet community, to use automation and AI to address pressing environmental issues, demonstrating the significant role technology can play in enhancing our ecological footprint. And we were blown away by the community participation.

Congratulations to GreenOps Tracker and Green Monitoring! These standout entries not only exemplify the ingenuity and practical impact of integrating automation and AI with sustainability efforts but also demonstrate how targeted solutions can significantly enhance environmental sustainability. As we explore the innovative technologies each project employs to address specific environmental challenges, it’s clear that our developer community possesses tremendous potential to drive meaningful change. To further optimize these winning solutions, each team will receive mentorship from Jason Davis, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco. This mentorship will focus on advancing AI integration within their projects, reinforcing Cisco’s commitment to leading the conversation on AI-driven sustainability.

Take a Look: Build for Better Winners

GreenOps Tracker: Automating Sustainability in Server Operations

GreenOps Tracker innovates server management by optimizing resource usage, thereby minimizing energy consumption and reducing CO2 emissions. Developed to empower server administrators with real-time data, GreenOps Tracker utilizes Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) and Ansible Event-Driven technologies to monitor Linux servers, automatically adjusting their configurations based on real-time events. This system not only reduces operational costs but also supports environmental sustainability goals by ensuring that servers operate with optimal resources, avoiding unnecessary energy use.

The core of GreenOps Tracker’s functionality lies in its ability to dynamically respond to changes in server performance metrics such as CPU usage, memory load, and system temperature. By integrating PCP for monitoring and using webhooks to trigger Ansible playbooks, the system provides a proactive management tool that adjusts resources without human intervention. This automatic adjustment is crucial for maintaining efficiency in data centers where even minor improvements can lead to significant reductions in power consumption and carbon footprints. The future prospects for GreenOps Tracker include expanding its metric support and integrating with Grafana to provide even more comprehensive energy consumption insights, promising further advances in sustainable IT management.

Explore GreenOps Tracker on Code Exchange >

Green Monitoring: Tracking Sustainability in Real-Time

Green Monitoring is a sustainable solution engineered by a team at Cisco that uses an open-source technology stack to monitor the energy and CO2-equivalent emissions of network and data center devices. It targets a range of equipment including IOS-XR and NX-OS devices, Meraki switches, UCS servers, ACI APIC nodes, and third-party PDUs from Eaton and Raritan. This tool not only tracks energy consumption and carbon footprints but also correlates these metrics with traffic, bandwidth, and costs, offering enterprises crucial insights for optimizing sustainability.

The backbone of Green Monitoring comprises gRPC streaming telemetry, Telegraf data processing, InfluxDB for data storage, and Grafana for visualization. This setup facilitates real-time monitoring and historical analysis, empowering users with actionable data to enhance their infrastructure’s energy efficiency. The solution’s extensive use of open-source technologies lowers barriers to entry and supports Cisco’s developer community in adapting and expanding the project to other sustainability metrics or customized use-cases.

Explore Green Monitoring on code exchange >

Next Steps: Leveraging Cisco AI for Sustainability

As you draw inspiration from the Build for Better Code Challenge winners, continue your exploration of AI’s role in sustainability with Cisco’s tools and resources.

Visit the Cisco DevNet AI Resource Hub to access learning labs, sample code, and videos on predictive and generative AI. These resources are designed to help you develop effective, sustainable solutions using AI technology.
Missed Developer Sustainability Week? No problem. You can watch the recordings of our webinar and workshop to gain insights into optimizing resources and enhancing system efficiencies for sustainability.
Explore our blog on AI programming languages to discover which programming languages are best suited for various AI tasks.
Stay engaged and expand your network. Join the DevNet Webex community, where you can connect with peers, share your projects, and find new collaboration opportunities.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this inaugural DevNet code challenge! We look forward to future challenges.

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