Cisco (not so) Live Amsterdam - a retrospective wrap on the firm's EMEA gathering with "a whole new Cisco" on show

There are several reasons for Cisco to have a spring in its step and they were highlighted at the recent Cisco Live event in Amsterdam.

The company has a significant refresh opportunity over the next two years around its last day of support kit in its installed base. A platform refresh is thus in focus amongst many customers, and Cisco has what it describes as a full stack platform ready for them, from silicon through to the data center, via its networking, security, observability, cloud and AI capabilities.

Suffice to say the company is feeling bullish about its prospects. As Jeetu Patel Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer puts it:

This is a whole new Cisco.

The Apple of AI infrastructure?

Patel’s vision for Cisco is bold: to become the default infrastructure provider as enterprises move to adopt generative, agentic and physical AI. As he says:

We have ...