Cafiero: We talk to them.
Byte and Switch: You're a marketing person, Soni your job must be much easier now that Andiamo is no longer a big secret? [See Ciscos Secret SAN Strategies Revealed, Cisco Owns Up to Andiamo, and Cisco Buys Andiamo.]
Jiandani: Yes, it is.
Byte and Switch: Andiamo means let's go in Italian, right? The group was supposedly given that name because a bunch of top execs at Cisco including you, Luca were about to do exactly that until Cisco sweetened you up with the Andiamo ticket. Is this true? [See Cisco's Creative Andiamo Options.]
Jiandani: It wasn't intentionally kept a secret. We had our heads down focused on what we had to do. You make a business decision, execute, then put your head up and talk about it; there's no point in generating noise before then. Touch, feel, deliver, and succeed.
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.
