Cisco taking aim at AI as sector grows

Cisco might have made missteps on cloud, but the company doesn’t intend to repeat the same mistakes on AI.

That was a main thrust of the company’s Cisco Live event in Las Vegas June 2–6, where CEO Chuck Robbins told the crowd at the event keynote on June 4 that the company was correcting for being unprepared in the past.

“Many of you would probably tell us, when the cloud era hit, we perhaps weren’t as prepared as we should have been,” Robbins said. “I will tell you today: As this AI era begins, we are very, very prepared to help you navigate this as we go forward.”

Planning board. Splunk, the data services company that Cisco purchased on March 18, is a good example of the parent company’s drive to expand its AI offerings. Splunk filters machine-generated data and assists organizations in searching that information.