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Mid East Info
23-04-2025
- Business
- Mid East Info
Cisco Secures Leadership Position in Gartner's Inaugural Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching - Middle East Business News and Information
Recognition highlights Cisco's strength in delivering scalable, secure, and AI-ready data center networking solutions for a rapidly evolving digital landscape Dubai, United Arab Emirates– Cisco has been named a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching, recognized for its strong Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Data center networking has undergone a profound transformation with the rise of AI. What once were simple data repositories with connectivity are now mission-critical infrastructures powering advanced applications across industries. As enterprises embrace AI, they face urgent challenges: How can they scale infrastructure to meet soaring demand? How can they maintain efficiency and security in an increasingly complex environment? For organizations aiming to lead in this AI-driven era, partnering with the right technology providers is not just beneficial—it's essential. At Cisco, data center networking is the cornerstone of a secure, full-stack AI strategy. The company vision is to deliver flexible, scalable networks with streamlined operations—maximizing bandwidth, minimizing latency, improving energy efficiency, and evolving in step with our customers' application needs. Mohannad Abuissa, Director of Solutions Engineering at Cisco Middle East, Africa, Türkiye, Romania, and CIS, said: 'Being recognized as a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Center Switching is a proud moment for Cisco and a testament to our commitment to innovation. As enterprises across the region accelerate their adoption of AI, they need modern, secure, and scalable data center infrastructure to match. At Cisco, we're enabling this transformation—delivering high-performance solutions that simplify operations, strengthen security, and empower organizations to stay ahead in an AI-driven world.' Over the past 18 months, Cisco has continued to deliver steady innovation across the portfolio: Focused on delivering high-performance: Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches have played a key role in the industry, with a differentiated silicon strategy (Cisco Silicon One) in data center networks, enabling a shift from 100G to 400G and ultimately 800G speeds to support the insatiable demand for greater bandwidth and lower latency driven by modern applications like AI/ML, storage, and video. In addition, Cisco 8000 Series Routers, powered by Silicon One, offer the option of deploying SONiC-based systems for customers with diverse, custom needs. Simplified operations and management: Cisco Nexus Dashboard provides centralized operations for data center networks and services, delivering automation, policy orchestration, and real-time analytics across diverse NX-OS and ACI fabric environments. The unified dashboard scales effortlessly to meet the needs of the largest enterprises, while also offering cost-effective solutions for more modest deployments. By reducing complexity and enhancing visibility across both on-premises and hybrid cloud environments, Nexus Dashboard empowers customers to focus on accelerating innovation. Reimagined network operations: Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric is revolutionizing the way customers design, build, and operate data center fabrics. It is delivered as a service and helps customers to scale multiple fabrics globally with minimal expertise. Its cloud controller manages the network, so you don't have to. Automated software updates help to further reduce IT workloads. Soon, customers will be able to deploy full-stack clusters with Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI, which includes NVIDIA GPUs and VAST Data storage to provide a completely automated, ready-to-use, AI system. Infused security into the network: Security and networking come together with Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switches, powered by Cisco Hypershield and Nexus Dashboard. Customers get strong protection, high performance, and flexible, programmable features—all in a compact design. Cisco Hypershield makes security policy management easier with Security Cloud Control, a cloud-based platform that helps organizations define and manage security across their entire enterprise. SecOps teams can enforce consistent policies and streamline operations. Engineered digital resilience: By combining the industry's broadest network telemetry with Splunk's cross-domain analytics, Cisco delivers unmatched AI-driven insights—empowering a more resilient, intelligent digital infrastructure. As evidenced by recent partnership announcements, Cisco is well-positioned for strategic growth. Its data center networking solutions—powered by Silicon One and strengthened by robust ecosystem partnerships with NVIDIA and AMD—are redefining AI cluster management through the Nexus Dashboard platform. Cisco is meeting today's market demands while actively shaping the future of the industry. Backed by a robust portfolio across networking, security, and cloud management, Cisco leads with innovation and delivers measurable business impact for global customers and this recognition from Gartner reinforces the value and momentum driving its continued success.
Channel Post MEA
22-04-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Cisco Named Leader By Gartner For Data Center Switching
Cisco has been named a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Switching, recognized for its strong Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Data center networking has undergone a profound transformation with the rise of AI. What once were simple data repositories with connectivity are now mission-critical infrastructures powering advanced applications across industries. As enterprises embrace AI, they face urgent challenges: How can they scale infrastructure to meet soaring demand? How can they maintain efficiency and security in an increasingly complex environment? For organizations aiming to lead in this AI-driven era, partnering with the right technology providers is not just beneficial—it's essential. At Cisco, data center networking is the cornerstone of a secure, full-stack AI strategy. The company vision is to deliver flexible, scalable networks with streamlined operations—maximizing bandwidth, minimizing latency, improving energy efficiency, and evolving in step with our customers' application needs. Mohannad Abuissa, Director of Solutions Engineering at Cisco Middle East, Africa, Türkiye, Romania, and CIS, said: 'Being recognized as a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Center Switching is a proud moment for Cisco and a testament to our commitment to innovation. As enterprises across the region accelerate their adoption of AI, they need modern, secure, and scalable data center infrastructure to match. At Cisco, we're enabling this transformation—delivering high-performance solutions that simplify operations, strengthen security, and empower organizations to stay ahead in an AI-driven world.' Over the past 18 months, Cisco has continued to deliver steady innovation across the portfolio: Focused on delivering high-performance: Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches have played a key role in the industry, with a differentiated silicon strategy (Cisco Silicon One) in data center networks, enabling a shift from 100G to 400G and ultimately 800G speeds to support the insatiable demand for greater bandwidth and lower latency driven by modern applications like AI/ML, storage, and video. In addition, Cisco 8000 Series Routers, powered by Silicon One, offer the option of deploying SONiC-based systems for customers with diverse, custom needs. Simplified operations and management: Cisco Nexus Dashboard provides centralized operations for data center networks and services, delivering automation, policy orchestration, and real-time analytics across diverse NX-OS and ACI fabric environments. The unified dashboard scales effortlessly to meet the needs of the largest enterprises, while also offering cost-effective solutions for more modest deployments. By reducing complexity and enhancing visibility across both on-premises and hybrid cloud environments, Nexus Dashboard empowers customers to focus on accelerating innovation. Reimagined network operations: Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric is revolutionizing the way customers design, build, and operate data center fabrics. It is delivered as a service and helps customers to scale multiple fabrics globally with minimal expertise. Its cloud controller manages the network, so you don't have to. Automated software updates help to further reduce IT workloads. Soon, customers will be able to deploy full-stack clusters with Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI, which includes NVIDIA GPUs and VAST Data storage to provide a completely automated, ready-to-use, AI system. Infused security into the network: Security and networking come together with Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switches, powered by Cisco Hypershield and Nexus Dashboard. Customers get strong protection, high performance, and flexible, programmable features—all in a compact design. Cisco Hypershield makes security policy management easier with Security Cloud Control, a cloud-based platform that helps organizations define and manage security across their entire enterprise. SecOps teams can enforce consistent policies and streamline operations. Engineered digital resilience: By combining the industry's broadest network telemetry with Splunk's cross-domain analytics, Cisco delivers unmatched AI-driven insights—empowering a more resilient, intelligent digital infrastructure. As evidenced by recent partnership announcements, Cisco is well-positioned for strategic growth. Its data center networking solutions—powered by Silicon One and strengthened by robust ecosystem partnerships with NVIDIA and AMD—are redefining AI cluster management through the Nexus Dashboard platform. Cisco is meeting today's market demands while actively shaping the future of the industry. Backed by a robust portfolio across networking, security, and cloud management, Cisco leads with innovation and delivers measurable business impact for global customers and this recognition from Gartner reinforces the value and momentum driving its continued success. 0 0
Zawya
22-04-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Cisco recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for data center switching
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Cisco has been named a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching, recognized for its strong Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Data center networking has undergone a profound transformation with the rise of AI. What once were simple data repositories with connectivity are now mission-critical infrastructures powering advanced applications across industries. As enterprises embrace AI, they face urgent challenges: How can they scale infrastructure to meet soaring demand? How can they maintain efficiency and security in an increasingly complex environment? For organizations aiming to lead in this AI-driven era, partnering with the right technology providers is not just beneficial—it's essential. At Cisco, data center networking is the cornerstone of a secure, full-stack AI strategy. The company vision is to deliver flexible, scalable networks with streamlined operations—maximizing bandwidth, minimizing latency, improving energy efficiency, and evolving in step with our customers' application needs. Mohannad Abuissa, Director of Solutions Engineering at Cisco Middle East, Africa, Türkiye, Romania, and CIS, said: 'Being recognized as a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Center Switching is a proud moment for Cisco and a testament to our commitment to innovation. As enterprises across the region accelerate their adoption of AI, they need modern, secure, and scalable data center infrastructure to match. At Cisco, we're enabling this transformation—delivering high-performance solutions that simplify operations, strengthen security, and empower organizations to stay ahead in an AI-driven world.' Over the past 18 months, Cisco has continued to deliver steady innovation across the portfolio: Focused on delivering high-performance: Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches have played a key role in the industry, with a differentiated silicon strategy (Cisco Silicon One) in data center networks, enabling a shift from 100G to 400G and ultimately 800G speeds to support the insatiable demand for greater bandwidth and lower latency driven by modern applications like AI/ML, storage, and video. In addition, Cisco 8000 Series Routers, powered by Silicon One, offer the option of deploying SONiC-based systems for customers with diverse, custom needs. Simplified operations and management: Cisco Nexus Dashboard provides centralized operations for data center networks and services, delivering automation, policy orchestration, and real-time analytics across diverse NX-OS and ACI fabric environments. The unified dashboard scales effortlessly to meet the needs of the largest enterprises, while also offering cost-effective solutions for more modest deployments. By reducing complexity and enhancing visibility across both on-premises and hybrid cloud environments, Nexus Dashboard empowers customers to focus on accelerating innovation. Reimagined network operations: Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric is revolutionizing the way customers design, build, and operate data center fabrics. It is delivered as a service and helps customers to scale multiple fabrics globally with minimal expertise. Its cloud controller manages the network, so you don't have to. Automated software updates help to further reduce IT workloads. Soon, customers will be able to deploy full-stack clusters with Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI, which includes NVIDIA GPUs and VAST Data storage to provide a completely automated, ready-to-use, AI system. Infused security into the network: Security and networking come together with Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switches, powered by Cisco Hypershield and Nexus Dashboard. Customers get strong protection, high performance, and flexible, programmable features—all in a compact design. Cisco Hypershield makes security policy management easier with Security Cloud Control, a cloud-based platform that helps organizations define and manage security across their entire enterprise. SecOps teams can enforce consistent policies and streamline operations. Engineered digital resilience: By combining the industry's broadest network telemetry with Splunk's cross-domain analytics, Cisco delivers unmatched AI-driven insights—empowering a more resilient, intelligent digital infrastructure. As evidenced by recent partnership announcements, Cisco is well-positioned for strategic growth. Its data center networking solutions—powered by Silicon One and strengthened by robust ecosystem partnerships with NVIDIA and AMD—are redefining AI cluster management through the Nexus Dashboard platform. Cisco is meeting today's market demands while actively shaping the future of the industry. Backed by a robust portfolio across networking, security, and cloud management, Cisco leads with innovation and delivers measurable business impact for global customers and this recognition from Gartner reinforces the value and momentum driving its continued success.
Zawya
03-03-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Cisco expands partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate AI adoption in the enterprise
Cisco and NVIDIA announced the intent to create a cross-portfolio unified architecture to simplify building AI-ready data center networks. NVIDIA will enable Cisco Silicon One coupled with NVIDIA SuperNICs to become part of the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. Cisco will build systems combining NVIDIA Spectrum reference architecture with Cisco operating system software, allowing customers to simultaneously standardize Cisco networking and NVIDIA technology in the data center. This proposed collaboration will open new market opportunities for Cisco by unifying the architectural model between front-end and back-end networks, making it easier to manage various enterprise and cloud provider networks. Dubai — Cisco [NASDAQ: CSCO] announced plans for an expanded partnership with NVIDIA to provide AI technology solutions to enterprises. Enterprises recognize that AI is essential to growth but remain early in their adoption as they navigate the unique technical complexity and security demands of operating AI-ready data centers. The expanded partnership aims to give organizations flexibility and choice as they look to meet the demand of AI workloads for high-performance, low-latency, highly power-efficient connectivity within – and between – data centers, clouds, and users. 'A robust and scalable AI ecosystem is key to driving the transformative power of AI,' said Hans Vestberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon. 'This expanded partnership between Cisco and NVIDIA, just like our Verizon AI Connect strategy and solutions, builds towards accelerating and enabling resource-intensive AI workloads at the Edge of the network.' The NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform based on Cisco and NVIDIA silicon will form the foundation for many enterprise AI workloads. By enabling interoperability between both companies' networking architectures, the two companies are prioritizing customers' needs for simplified, full-stack solutions. The goal of the expanded partnership is to allow customers to optimize their AI infrastructure investments with a common architecture, using their existing management tools and processes, spanning front and back-end networks. 'Enterprises are under immense pressure to deploy AI quickly and effectively, and many leaders struggle to justify the investment while balancing the risks,' said Chuck Robbins, Chair and CEO, Cisco. 'Together, Cisco and NVIDIA are partnering to remove barriers for customers and ensure they can optimize their infrastructure investments to unlock the power of AI.' 'Advancing at lightspeed, AI will revolutionize every industry,' said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA. 'NVIDIA Spectrum-X is Ethernet enhanced and supercharged for AI. Together with Cisco's enterprise platforms and global reach, we can help companies worldwide build state-of-the-art NVIDIA infrastructure as they race to transform with AI.' By making it easier to integrate and standardize on both Cisco and NVIDIA technology, customers will benefit from current and future technology advancements in the NVIDIA Spectrum-X platform such as adaptive routing, telemetry, congestion control and low latency, as well as Cisco's broader networking, security, and digital resilience portfolio, including the Splunk data platform. As businesses develop AI capabilities and train models on their own data, having a comprehensive security strategy becomes crucial. 'World Wide Technology's long-standing partnerships with Cisco and NVIDIA has already resulted in cutting-edge AI solutions that drive innovation and business transformation,' said Jim Kavanaugh, Co-Founder and CEO, World Wide Technology. 'By leveraging the strengths of Cisco's deep expertise in the data center and NVIDIA's advanced AI technologies, we are poised to deliver unparalleled value to our customers and help them navigate the complexities of AI adoption with confidence.' Cisco and NVIDIA: Accelerating AI workload adoption in the enterprise Together, the two companies are committed to bringing new levels of innovation to accelerate the adoption of AI within enterprises. Focusing on simplifying deployment and operations, while improving workload performance and visibility, the objective of this deeper partnership is to deliver the highest performance Ethernet solutions available for AI workloads and extend NVIDIA's Spectrum-X architecture to include Cisco Silicon One, making Cisco the only partner silicon supported in Spectrum-X Ethernet solutions. In addition, the expanded partnership will help move enterprise data center Ethernet AI projects from prototype to full deployment, which would otherwise be limited to public cloud or SaaS services. Cisco and NVIDIA are planning to develop joint solutions for customers. Cisco will develop data center switches with the NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet platform. The open ecosystem approach will provide customers with more choices and flexibility. Organizations can standardize on the NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking platform with both Cisco and NVIDIA switch silicon-based architectures, bringing the industry-leading technologies from both companies under a single management fabric. Cisco will collaborate with NVIDIA to create and validate NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architectures (ERA) and NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) Reference Architectures based on NVIDIA Spectrum-X with Cisco Silicon One, Hyperfabric, Cisco Nexus, UCS Compute, Optics, and other Cisco technologies. Cisco and NVIDIA are committed to collaboration and joint development, aiming to deliver the highest-performing Ethernet solutions for customers. The companies plan for continued collaboration to address significant challenges like congestion management and load balancing so that customers can scale and secure AI deployments. For more information, read Cisco EVP and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel's perspective on the agreement. AVAILABILITY Cisco plans to enhance its Silicon switches to be compatible with Spectrum-X and NVIDIA's reference architectures. These updates will be available in the middle of calendar year 2025, including existing and upcoming Cisco Nexus, Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric, and Cisco UCS products. The timeline for new Cisco Spectrum switches will be announced at a later date. ABOUT CISCO Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era. For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, enhance productivity and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains committed to creating a more connected and inclusive future for all. Discover more on The Newsroom and follow us on X at @Cisco. Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. A listing of Cisco's trademarks can be found at Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word 'partner' does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company. Products and features described in this release that are not currently available remain in varying stages of development and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis. 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