Cisco acquires a lot of startups as part of its overall acquisition strategy. One of the issues any large company faces when buying younger companies is how to preserve the core innovation that makes that company worth buying in the first place. During our interview on FastForward on PPN last
Like so many technologies that came before it, it turns out that AI is more complex to implement than we first thought (or at least were led to believe). Survey after survey finds all but a few notable exceptions are stuck in proofs of concept, unable to scale to the
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Since its earliest days, Cisco has been known as an acquisitive company. Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer, joined the company six years ago and he wanted to move the company from being reactive when deciding which companies to buy to being much more strategic and aligned with his
MetLife has been around since 1868. That means the company was operating when electricity was transforming business. Today, the company finds itself in the midst of an analogous shift, this time to AI. Insurance companies are famous for legacy software stacks. The question is how does the CIO push the
And every word you say Every game you play Every night you stay I'll be watching you ~Police, Every Breath you Take It's not exactly a secret that as we move around the internet, interact with search engines and seek guidance from AI bots, we spread
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You don't get much more enterprise old school than IBM's consulting division working with companies to roll out complex software (while jacking up the price of a process that's already expensive). OpenAI and IBM announced a partnership this week where IBM plans to launch
It's been a wacky summer. We've seen the big AI labs watch their models run amok and go off hacking. We've seen Mark Zuckerberg make a lame attempt to write a happy manifesto  (clearly with the help of AI) about his vision of our
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Think back, if you will, to three years ago. Yes, ChatGPT had been released the prior year, but cloud companies weren't seeing much benefit yet. In fact, the market was in a lull. AWS growth plunged to 12% for Q2 and Q3 that year, growth numbers so abysmal
Editor's Note: This is Part 3 of How AI is Changing Enterprise Security, a three-part video interview with Swamy Kocherlakota, executive vice president, agentic AI startup at Zscaler, produced jointly by Zscaler and FastForward. This installment looks at The new job of the CISO. AI is reshaping