Take a step back and given the fact that you talked about platform, talk about Cisco Cloud Control and specifically what does that do from a value perspective for customers? Why is that important and why is that not just yet another product release from another vendor?

Yeah, so what I think is interesting about cloud control is when we first set on this journey, a lot of it was around simplification within our portfolio.

How do we bring together all the different dashboards and controllers that we have within the Cisco portfolio under one roof? And I think it has evolved way beyond that.

And so where we are with that right now is you can think of it as not just unifying our own dashboards, but unifying all of this cross domain telemetry.

So networking data, security data, application data, it's part of observability, agentic behavioral data, all of this coming together in one place that we can then use and we can then use that data to apply agentic ops to these problems of how do we deliver better experiences across our infrastructure how do we constantly look for whether there are performance problems whether there are configuration issues whether there are compliance issues how do we help humans troubleshoot problems much faster than we could ever troubleshoot them before or even give them autonomous capability to be able to keep their networks and their systems up and running.

And doing that all in a very open ecosystem where these agents are things that our customers can build and control, but then also, as I said before, work with our partners to have agents working with agents, because again, if you have Slack or you have ServiceNow or you have other types of solutions in your environment, you want to be able to have our agents talk to their agents and be able to jointly solve problems.

And so this has really become a harness for this agentic operations, which ties together infrastructure, security, observability, all in one place.

Studios are actually

Take a step back and given the fact that you talked about platform, talk about Cisco Cloud Control and specifically what does that do from a value perspective for customers? Why is that important and why is that not just yet another product release from another vendor?

Yeah, so what I think is interesting about cloud control is when we first set on this journey, a lot of it was around simplification within our portfolio.

How do we bring together all the different dashboards and controllers that we have within the Cisco portfolio under one roof? And I think it has evolved way beyond that.

And so where we are with that right now is you can think of it as not just unifying our own dashboards, but unifying all of this cross domain telemetry.

So networking data, security data, application data, it's part of observability, agentic behavioral data, all of this coming together in one place that we can then use and we can then use that data to apply agentic ops to these problems of how do we deliver better experiences across our infrastructure how do we constantly look for whether there are performance problems whether there are configuration issues whether there are compliance issues how do we help humans troubleshoot problems much faster than we could ever troubleshoot them before or even give them autonomous capability to be able to keep their networks and their systems up and running.

And doing that all in a very open ecosystem where these agents are things that our customers can build and control, but then also, as I said before, work with our partners to have agents working with agents, because again, if you have Slack or you have ServiceNow or you have other types of solutions in your environment, you want to be able to have our agents talk to their agents and be able to jointly solve problems.

And so this has really become a harness for this agentic operations, which ties together infrastructure, security, observability, all in one place.

Studios are actually

Take a step back, and given the fact that you talked about platform, talked about Cisco Cloud Control, and specifically what does that do from a value perspective for customers? Why is that important, and why is that not just yet another product release from another vendor?

Yeah, so what I think is interesting about cloud control is when we first set on this journey, a lot of it was around simplification within our portfolio.

How do we bring together all the different dashboards and controllers that we have within the Cisco portfolio under one roof? And I think it has evolved way beyond that.

And so where we are with that right now is you can think of it as not just unifying our own dashboards, but unifying all of this cross domain telemetry.

So networking data, security data, application data, it's part of observability, agentic behavioral data, all of this coming together in one place that we can then use and we can then use that data to apply agentic ops to these problems of how do we deliver better experiences across our infrastructure? How do we constantly look for whether there are performance problems, whether there are configuration issues, whether there are compliance issues? How do we help humans troubleshoot problems much faster than we could ever troubleshoot them before or even give them autonomous capability to be able to keep their networks and their systems up and running? And doing that all in a very open ecosystem where these agents are things that our customers can build and control, but then also, as I said before, work with our partners to have agents working with agents.

Because again, if you have Slack or you have ServiceNow or you have other types of solutions in your environment, you want to be able to have our agents talk to their agents and be able to jointly solve problems.

And so this has really become a harness for this agentic operations, which ties together infrastructure, security, observability, all in one place.

What are we doing at Cisco around that?