For a long time, Cisco’s success has been largely dependent on its partners. Customers need the finest innovation and knowledge to handle significant technological shifts, and this is especially true now.
Cisco’s partner ecosystem is essential to the company’s and its clients’ success because of its extensive experience and global reach.
Thus, this week’s annual Partner Summit event in San Diego served as a chance to honor such collaborations as well as ground-breaking discoveries and the enormous prospects that lie ahead.
Naturally, AI is connected to both potential and the difficulties they present. Additionally, Cisco CEO and chair Chuck Robbins presented a strong argument for the company’s special capacity to assist clients in realizing the potential of AI.
“There is no AI without a network, and no AI without a secure network,”
Robbins stated.
“None of our security competitors have networking, and none of our networking competitors have security. This is something that only we can do together.”
Cisco and its partners are well-positioned to capture the AI value at stake when you include end-to-end infrastructure, a potent AI stack, the revolutionary potential of Cisco Splunk, AI-native collaboration, optics, and much more.
Because consumers are negotiating one of the biggest technological and commercial shifts in history in the AI era, there is a trillion-dollar opportunity. However, only 28% of firms think their infrastructure can handle AI workloads, according to the Cisco-led 2025 AI Readiness Index, which Robbins highlighted.
The President and Chief Product Officer of Cisco, Jeetu Patel, went on to discuss the current technological shift and its significant ramifications.
“The next era of AI is here,”
Patel said.
“And it’s probably one of the most interesting times in tech that any of us has lived through. Because we’re moving from this world of chatbots that intelligently answered our questions — that felt like magic three years ago — to agents that conduct tasks and jobs almost fully autonomously on behalf of humans.”