
This complexity, he added, is driving customers toward tightly integrated services as opposed to point products. "We have to make sure that this technology, to Chuck's point, gets to be simpler."

They don't occur because someone has actually had malicious intent," Jeetu Patel, EVP and GM of security at Cisco, told the keynote audience. "Fifty-six percent of the breaches that occur, occur because of negligence. The idea of stitching together functionality across Cisco's portfolio also extends to the security domain. Liz Centoni, chief strategy officer and GM of applications at Cisco, said predictive functionality – alongside a tighter integration with the company's AppDynamics and Intersight platforms – allows dev teams to pinpoint disruptions faster and take preemptive actions to avoid them in the future.

"As an industry, we delivered more and more power, more sophistication every step of the way," said Todd Nightingale, EVP of enterprise networking and cloud at Cisco, during the keynote. Cisco tightens integrationsĪ quick glance over the company's announcements this week reveals a common theme along these lines: tighter integrations between the company's existing product portfolios aimed at saving customers the trouble of flipping between multiple dashboards just to do their jobs. "Everything we find that is inhibiting your experience from being the best that it can be, we're going to tackle," he declared, appealing to customers to share their pain points at the show. If I think back to eight or ten years ago, I think we've made progress, but we still have more to do," he said, promising to address customers' biggest complaints with the networking giant's various platforms. "We need to simplify the things that we do with you. Instead, the presentation was all about working with customers to make their lives easier. Cisco Live In his first in-person Cisco Live keynote in two years, CEO Chuck Robbins didn't make any lofty claims about how AI is taking over the network or how the company's latest products would turn networking on its head.
