This is the time of year when professional football teams are hoping to get the next Tom Brady, Joe Montana or Deion Sanders. Every now and then there are a couple of “can’t miss” prospects such as Peyton Manning or Saquon Barkley, but there are often far more draft busts than hits. It raises the question of why this is given the amount of money and resources teams pour into scouting, the NFL Combine, workout days and more.
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, it should be obvious that artificial intelligence is all the rage. Though there are many use cases and industries that AI could affect, customer experience, CX for short, is considered by many to be the low-hanging fruit of AI. However, the potential for AI to enable CX solutions is fraught with high risk and high reward.
Artificial intelligence continues to be a focal point for companies in all areas of technology and communications as demand from enterprise customers continues to soar, but one of the underappreciated aspects of AI is that a network plays a critical role in the success of AI initiatives. Despite the same type of “AI bump” the capital markets have given the chip companies; the network vendors have been aggressive with evolving their products to meet the demands of AI.
Cisco Systems Inc. today expanded its partnership with Nvidia Corp. to help enterprises accelerate AI projects by making it easier to deploy a combined solution to modernize their data center in preparation for artificial intelligence. The two companies have been partners for the better part of a decade. This five-year expansion is aimed at bringing flexibility to customers to meet the constantly changing demands that AI brings.
Palo Alto Networks Inc. last week unveiled its newest cloud security offering, Cortex Cloud. The latest iteration of the company’s Prisma Cloud, it’s natively built on Palo Alto’s Cortex AI-enabled security operations platform. In its announcement, Palo Alto described Cortex Cloud as combining Cortex’s “best-in-class cloud detection and response (CDR) with industry-leading cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) from Prisma Cloud for real-time cloud security.”