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Decoder · August 6, 2024 · 50m

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on infrastructure in the AI era

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins discusses how AI is transforming enterprise networking, the infrastructure demands of AI data centers, and Cisco's $28B acquisition of Splunk for observability.

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Robbins argues that networking and infrastructure are to AI what exercise is to health: everyone knows they matter, nobody wants to talk about them, but without them nothing works.

Highlights

The Splunk acquisition bets on observability as the nervous system of AI
Robbins frames the $28B Splunk acquisition as a bet that AI systems will generate so much data and complexity that observability — the ability to see what is happening inside your systems — becomes as important as the systems themselves.