Cisco is celebrating his networking and security event Live 2022 in Las Vegas, and although it expects to have some 15,000 attendees at its sessions in person, it has not forgotten those who cannot attend, and it also has an online version, which will allow the presentations to be followed from a distance.
How could it be otherwise, the person in charge of inaugurating Cisco Live 2022 has been the President and CEO of the company, Chuck Robbins, although accompanied by several of its directors and also by some of its main clients. Among them Amazon, the city of Las Vegas itself, Ford, McLaren Racing and Starbucks. In the presentation, Robbins recalled that digital transformation remains essential for all companies, in addition to giving way to the main innovations of Cisco for companies.
All are focused on facilitating the improvement of productivity in the company, as well as making them achieve the necessary resilience and agility. There are news for the areas of networks, security and collaboration. The first of the novelties focuses on the unified cloud management, and is based on the company’s new cloud management capabilities, which offer a unified experience for Cisco Meraki (network and security managed from the cloud), Cisco Catalyst (switches for enterprise networks) and Cisco Nexus (switches for data centers). data). Cisco ThousandEyes, a solution that optimizes the performance of a WAN, has also been mentioned.
Regarding cloud security, Cisco has announced its strategy for a global integrated security platform in the cloud. This offers access and connectivity with security for companies of any sector and size. The platform, Cisco Security Cloudit will be unified, open and neutral, and will have the objective of improving the protection of end-to-end hybrid multi-cloud environments.
The company has also announced several new features focused on optimizing hybrid work. As the Cisco Video Phone 8875, a telephone designed for employees who opt for this type of work, and which combines calls and videoconferences. As to Webex Callingpart of the Webex Suite, has a set of enhancements that can improve call flexibility and reliability, as well as sound quality.
With the ThounsandEyes integrationon the other hand, in Webex Control Hub, enhances the Cisco Webex user experience by allowing administrators to proactively monitor and control application performance issues. Webex Webinars also now has more integrations focused on workflow flexibility. Specifically, with Salesforce and Oracle Eloqua.
The AppDynamics Cloud Platform It has also seen the light of day at Cisco Live 2022. It is a cloud platform that offers elements of visibility and analytics for applications based on distributed architectures and services. With it, IT teams will be able to easily and seamlessly deliver a variety of digital experiences to consumers, end users, and other businesses.
The event has also served to announce various free open source solutions from Cisco. What Panoptica Y Calisti. Both are aimed at developers, and are API-first cloud-native applications that are intended to make application development cycles easier and faster.
In addition to presentations, the event features innovation talks, hands-on labs, and technical training sessions. It also has a demonstration area, World of Solutions, in which there are various interactive experiences. Among them, a connected car, model Ford Mustang Mach-E. It has Webex Meeting integrated and is capable of connecting with roads and intersections. In addition, there are demonstrations of Cisco hybrid workstations, as well as various tools for real-time communication, 3D immersive collaboration or asynchronous video messaging.
