Recognition highlights Cisco’s strength in delivering scalable, secure, and AI-ready data center networking solutions for a rapidly evolving digital landscape

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 22 April 2025 – Cisco has been named a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching, recognized for its strong Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

Mohannad Abuissa, Director of Solutions Engineering at Cisco Middle East, Africa, Türkiye, Romania, and CIS,

News Summary:

• Cisco announces the Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switches with a new class of intelligent networking silicon alongside embedded DPUs, reimagining AI data center designs.
• Cisco Hypershield will be offered as the first service available embedded on the new switches; narrowing the gap between security and networking layers by converging them into a single solution.
• Featuring Cisco Silicon One E100 and AMD Pensando DPUs, complex data processing tasks can be offloaded to the DPUs on the switch to improve both network architecture and security posture.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 18March2025:Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced a family of data center Smart Switches, disrupting traditional data center network design by enabling networking and security services in a compact all-in-one solution. Utilizing programmable AMD Pensando™ data processing units (DPUs), the switch functions as a high-capacity, multifunctional service-hosting device, architecturally transforming data centers to simplify their design and make them more efficient. Cisco’s first integrated offering, the Smart Switch with Cisco Hypershield, introduces a new approach to securing AI data centers by fusing security directly into the network fabric.

Dubai, UAE – November 27, 2024 — With an anticipated increase of shopping activity in the UAE during White Friday, Cisco shares an advisory for consumers regarding the prevalence of malicious QR codes, based on insights from Cisco Talos.

Cisco Talos is a trusted global threat intelligence research team comprising world-class researchers, analysts, and engineers with unmatched visibility across the threat landscape, seeing more than 800 billion security events per day.

Cisco unveiled key insights into the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape, emphasizing the need for a united front between technology companies and governments. As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, Cisco advocates for the development of advanced AI detection systems to ensure a safer online environment for all.

Despite ongoing efforts from both public and private sectors to detect and mitigate the effects of AI-powered disinformation, the consequences are no longer theoretical. This was evident inCisco’s recent Cybersecurity Readiness Index,where 85% of UAE respondents anticipated a cybersecurity incident disrupting their business within the next 12 to 24 months. Additionally, 52% of those affected by such incidents reported costs of at least $300,000. The urgency of leveraging AI capabilities has never been greater.