While Gilad said some of the initiative's services will be available as free resources (some design guides and success stories are already posted
on the Cisco Web site), much of the high-level design and advice will only be available to Cisco customers, either those who purchase data center equipment, or those looking to integrate data centers with existing Cisco infrastructures. There is no set pricing for any of the initiative's advanced services, Gilad said.
"Data center architectures are changing from silos of information to consolidated architectures with shared resources on everything from computing to storage to reusable application components," Gilad said. "Customers have been coming to us, asking us how to design their data center architectures. The initiative provides them with a much more strategic approach."
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
