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Cisco Hypershield challenges a core assumption: that security happens at the perimeter. With eBPF-based agents, DPU offloading, and enforcement embedded in smart switches, it moves security into the data path itself—where AI workloads actually need it. The question is whether Cisco can execute.
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Cisco's Silicon One follows a proven playbook: make Ethernet "good enough," win on operational simplicity. InfiniBand leads AI training, but if workloads fragment toward inference/edge, Cisco's positioned for the larger market. Amsterdam 2026 will show if the pattern holds.
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I'm building the bull case for Cisco's transformation. In public. With full awareness of my bias. The market treats every announcement as discrete news—but I think there's a coherent narrative nobody's connecting. Let's test if the optimism holds up.
There's a particular frustration that comes from knowing you're good at something—but only sometimes. This week, as I prepare for a complex video project, I'm confronting a truth that's been nagging at me for years: I can't consistently deliver
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Legacy systems cost millions annually just to maintain the status quo. Battle-tested modernization tools now exist to transform these applications safely and automatically, often reducing costs by 70-90% while unlocking decades of trapped innovation.
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Cloud bills exploding? Teams working in silos? The problem isn't the technology—it's your operating model. Learn how to shift from infrastructure owner to service broker, optimize for value over cost-cutting, and build the foundation for true cloud control.
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When cloud security meets geopolitical reality, even the most sophisticated systems can be undermined by legal and jurisdictional pressure points. Learn how the Trust Descent Triangle maps your real vulnerability and the Sovereignty Ascension Pyramid charts your path to digital control.
Automation Priorities 2025
Robb Boyd and Nick Thompson dig into why your automation efforts keep stalling—spoiler alert: it's not the technology, it's the foundation. Nick breaks down the hard truth that you can't automate what you don't know exists.
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Something my guest said stopped me cold: "Without automation, you are guaranteeing yourself to consume more GPU resources than you thought you were gonna consume." We've been thinking about AI infrastructure completely backwards.
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More than 80% of AI projects fail before the first model runs. The reason? Organizations skip the boring stuff—data quality, security, proper cloud infrastructure—and jump straight to the transformative part. Here's the four-step recovery plan that actually works.
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Something Mark Wall said stopped me in my tracks: "Most organizations are spending twenty-five times more effort maintaining their infrastructure than deploying it." That's when I realized we've been obsessing over the wrong part of the IT lifecycle.
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Just wrapped our automation series with Tree from WWT's AI Ops team on "full context operations" - why your entire IT org needs to work in lockstep. His reality check: good automation looks like AI, but it's actually thoughtful architecture that understands how your business makes money.