More than 300 professionals participated yesterday in Cisco engageCisco’s main technological and business event in Spain. Held in Madrid and with the motto ‘40 years creating future‘, attendees were able to discover how Cisco and their partners are revolutionizing the way the infrastructure and data are integrated and protect organizations in the era of artificial intelligence (AI).
“During the last four decades, Cisco has connected to organizations, communities and people around the world, helping them to take advantage of the power of technology to realize Your business and personal projects“he highlighted during his opening presentation Andreu Vilamijana, general director of Cisco for Spain and Portugal. “Today, together with our technological and channel partners, we are revolutionizing the way in which infrastructure and data transform the processes into business, social, ethical and sustainable value”.
According to the data of Cisco, although 47% of Spanish organizations already allocate between 10% and 30% of their IT budget to AI – mainly to cybersecurity, data management and analytical – only 9% have a completely prepared infrastructure to take advantage of their full potential. With his local expert team and his partners ecosystem, Cisco is dedicated to helping his clients cope with these challenges, focusing on knowledge and skills, the modernization of infrastructure and the strengthening of cybersecurity, so that they can obtain a competitive advantage in the future driven by AI.
Round tables
During the day three round tables were held by the Directors of Architectures of Cisco and in which important leading companies in their sector and the main associations of the ICT industry in Spain participated, including ISMS FORUM, AMCHAMSPAIN, Autelsi, Aslan and Digital.
All interventions focused on evaluating how to strengthen the digital resilience of companies and governments combining the power of the network with cybersecurity, observation capacity, analytics and collaboration tools, simplifying their adoption with a platform approach and offering unique visibility and knowledge of their entire digital framework.
The table dedicated to Security He reflected the need to reinvent the defenses with native ia solutions. The interlocutors emphasized that the AI explosion requires completely rethinking security to incline the balance in favor of defenders, protecting the AI engine (data centers and clouds) so that all applications and devices are safe, regardless of how they are distributed or connected.
All this revolution also affects the workplace, redesigning the offices so that the spaces are truly collaborative and managing the remote connections so that they have the highest quality, security and inclusion of the participants. Converting work into business value not only requires automating repetitive tasks that optimize productivity, but also give voice to all face -to -face or remote participants and release time for reconciliation with personal life.
Thus it was evident at the table on Future-Proofed Workplaceswhich revealed the importance of combining collaboration tools equipped with AI agents, Wifi 7 connectivity, connected objects, visibility and safety managed from the cloud to simplify tasks and focus on innovation and personalized attention for end customers.
On the other hand, preparing network infrastructure with more powerful and eco-responsible silicon and optical technologies and capable of integrating services directly into switches was the theme of the table dedicated to Current state of artificial intelligencea disruptive model that Cisco and its technological partners -NVIDIA, COHERE O new ‘Ai factories’ pioneers in the market.
Cisco also has asked to the ceos on the AI. And the answer has been even more shocking: although four out of five CEOs recognize the potential benefits of AI and almost all (97%) plan to integrate it into their operations, less than 2% feel that their companies are completely prepared to take advantage of their potential.
As Vilamyitjana concludes, “Throughout the day we have shown the impact that Cisco has had in the last four decades and that we are determined to continue. And how we rely on the complete porpholio of Cisco and our partners to provide organizations with the three technological pillars necessary to succeed in the new era of AI in a rapid, ethical and efficient way: improving their data centers prepared for AI with simple solutions to implement, scalable and scalable solutions. Eco-Responsible, designing workplaces prepared for the future and adopting the necessary defenses to maintain all their environments resistant to new cyber-love ones ”.
