Cisco is looking to embrace the growing field of IoT with some new announcements around rugged switches and access points as well as a new dashboard designed to address the needs of operations teams. The new Cisco IoT dashboard allows existing IT teams to manage Cisco IoT offerings, such as the IE3100 Rugged Series Switch and the IW9165 Series Access Point. The goal is to provide more integration between these teams to help create synergy as well as provide enhanced security monitoring through the new Cyber Vision IoT security platform.
Cisco has also announced several new initiatives aimed at providing sustainability in enterprise IT. Leveraging platforms such as Webex to reduce the carbon footprint of in-person meetings is just the start. Partner companies like Pure Storage are working to reduce power consumption in devices as well as providing upgrade paths to reduce the amount of e-waste for end-of-life hardware. The goal is helping IT departments adopt sustainable methods and integrate those into their workflows for the future while also streamlining operations and reducing CapEx and OpEx budgets.
1:05 | ChatGPT getting a lot of usage and headlines
ChatGPT is a trained AI model that we can interact with in a conversational way. It really has seemed to take the consumer world by storm. Google has now announced a competing offering called Bard. What are the long term goals and implications of products like these?
Read More: Microsoft is holding a press event tomorrow, with ChatGPT expected to feature heavily
Read More: Google unveils Bard, its ChatGPT rival
4:30 | Amazon planning to migrate some Oregon data centers to Natural Gas
AWS is reportedly concerned about not being able to get enough power to handle its Oregon data centers and is looking to natural gas fuel cells. Are alternate power sources an outlier or will they become more common for other hyper-scalers? Could these hyper-scalers end up inadvertently driving some alternate power and fuel source discussions.
Read More: Power Grid Worries Force Amazon To Run Oregon Datacenters Using Fuel Cells
6:13 | Dell Introduces a Rugged VX-Rail for the edge
Dell continues its push to the edge with the new rugged VD-4000 line of VX-Rail servers. These compact rack and standalone servers pack a VMware and vSAN solution for the and scale all the way down to two nodes. What’s your take on this new edge solution?
Read More: Dell takes VxRail hyperconverged systems to the rugged edge
9:28 | No Crypto Super Bowl ads have been purchased.
Crypto ads were big in the “big game” last year. Yet we’re hearing that there will be none at all during the big game this year. What has changed?
Read More: No Cryptocurrency Super Bowl Ads Have Been Purchased This Year
11:14 | NetApp Introduces a QLC Line
NetApp introduced the all-flash C-Series this week, adding a new line in their ONTAP offerings. It uses QLC flash and is positioned as a less-expensive and greener alternative. Is it the real deal?
Read More: NetApp Announces A Whole New Line
Read More: NetApp adds quad-level cell arrays to AFF range
14:42 | Where do all of the Silicon Valley workers go after layoffs?
There are continued announcements of large tech companies laying off varying percentages of staff. First off, is there a good way to know how many of these are tech professionals, and where do those tech professionals go? Do they jump to other large tech firms or do they continue to embrace remote work and take their talents to smaller companies and industries, perhaps on the enterprise side?
17:26 | HYCU Backs Up All the Things with Protégé R-Cloud
Enterprise data protection firm Hycu just introduced a new cloud backup offering featuring an extensible marketplace that could support just about any SaaS in the cloud. The Protégé R-Cloud comes out of the gate with an API and developer kit as well as support for some popular SaaS data sources. What do you think of this comprehensive offering?
Read More: HYCU tackles the SaaS data protection challenge with the announcement of R-Cloud
21:08 | Cisco Leans Into 5G, IoT, and Sustainability at Cisco Live EMEA
Cisco is looking to embrace the growing field of IoT with some new announcements around rugged switches and access points as well as a new dashboard designed to address the needs of operations teams. The new Cisco IoT dashboard allows existing IT teams to manage Cisco IoT offerings, such as the IE3100 Rugged Series Switch and the IW9165 Series Access Point. The goal is to provide more integration between these teams to help create synergy as well as provide enhanced security monitoring through the new Cyber Vision IoT security platform.
Cisco has also announced several new initiatives aimed at providing sustainability in enterprise IT. Leveraging platforms such as Webex to reduce the carbon footprint of in-person meetings is just the start. Partner companies like Pure Storage are working to reduce power consumption in devices as well as providing upgrade paths to reduce the amount of e-waste for end-of-life hardware. The goal is helping IT departments adopt sustainable methods and integrate those into their workflows for the future while also streamlining operations and reducing CapEx and OpEx budgets.
Read More: Harmonizing Networking and Security to Make SASE Easy
Read More: New innovations to simplify IT for industrial networks
Read More: Cisco expands Cisco Intersight to EMEA for sovereignty and high performance
Read More: New Cisco Catalyst 9200CX Compact With HVDC, Cisco UPOE And mGig
Read More: Cisco Doubles Down on Frictionless Security to Protect Hybrid Work and Multi-Cloud Environments
Read More: New Cisco Innovation Helps Organizations Meet Sustainability Targets
35:48 | The Weeks Ahead
Cisco Live EMEA – February 7 – February 8, 2023
Edge Field Day 1 – February 22 through February 23, 2023
Tech Field Day 27 – March 8 through March 10, 2023
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