This week, Fortinet is holding its annual user event, Accelerate, in Las Vegas. This year’s event drew over 4,000 people, the largest user event in the security vendor’s history. The increase in audience is due to a couple of reasons. First, the security landscape continues to increase in complexity, and the value proposition of Fortinet’s fabric is to consolidate and simplify security.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) upgraded its HPE Aruba Networking Central platform for network management by integrating generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) large language models (LLMs). The upgrade enhances the platform’s search functionality, making it faster and more accurate, simplifying tasks for network operators, and enhancing network services.
Network provider Nile just announced that its Nile Access Service is getting a new solution architecture, including Nile Service Blocks and Nile Services Cloud, along with a few AI application categories (Nile Copilot and Nile Autopilot). The company says this announcement combines cloud-native service delivery and AI-powered closed-loop automation for campus and branch IT infrastructures.
Barcelona is the center of the tech world this week, with the extensive MWC 24 conference drawing an international crowd. On day one of the event, Cisco announced a range of AI-related investments aimed at helping global service providers. I had the chance to hear three Cisco Networking leaders preview this week’s announcement in a briefing.
We’ve been talking about the autonomous enterprise for many years now. Especially in the wake of all the AI hype, the idea that an enterprise can be put on autopilot and run itself is still bandied about. But what is happening to enable that? I recently sat down with Shailesh Manjrekar, CMO at CloudFabrix, about his company’s partnership with Cisco.