Jeetu Patel, Cisco Systems Inc.‘s president and chief product officer, told me before last week’s annual user event that it would be “the most consequential Cisco Live of the past decade and perhaps longer.” There were a few reasons for Patel’s bullishness. The first is artificial intelligence. The core tenet of my research is that share shifts happen when markets transition, and Cisco’s ability to articulate its strategy now will allow it to rise when the AI tide does.

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Key takeaways from Cisco Live 2025

Extreme Networks Inc. is holding its user event, Extreme Connect 2025 this week in Paris — a fitting city for the event as it’s home to many customers of Extreme, including the Musee d’Orsay and Charles De Gaulle Airport. The cloud networking provider used the event to announce several new products that focused on making the network simpler to deploy and easier to manage.

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Extreme Networks goes big on platform and AI at Connect 2025

Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. announced a solid third quarter Wednesday, posting a beat and raise. Here are my top five thoughts from this quarter.

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Thoughts from Cisco’s third-quarter earnings results

Riverbed Technology LLC Tuesday kicked off its 23rd anniversary with the biggest product launch in almost a decade. The company that pioneered wide-area network optimization introduced major enhancements to its acceleration technology to help enterprises manage the explosive growth of data and artificial intelligence workloads.

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Riverbed goes back to the future with a renewed focus on acceleration

It’s nearing the end of April and for the security industry, this means it’s time for the RSAC Conference. Over the next week or so, about 50,000 people will flock to the Moscone Center to take in the latest and greatest in cyber. One company that has retooled much of its portfolio over the past year is Cisco Systems Inc. and it’s used RSAC to launch many new products.

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At RSAC 2025, Cisco announces bevy of security announcements to leverage its strength in networking