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Cisco XDR has at all times been predicated on the data that each buyer and each SOC is totally different. With hundreds of merchandise in the marketplace clamoring for consideration and budgets, the probability of any XDR answer supporting all of your group’s wants is minimal.

For these causes, Cisco XDR is constructed on high of a foundationally open structure with documented open-source protocols and RESTful APIs. If a expertise your staff depends on isn’t supported out-of-the-box in Cisco XDR, that may be addressed by the seller of that product, and even your self.

If software program improvement was simple, everybody would do it. For this reason we’re taking steps to decrease the obstacles to entry for customized integrations, and we’re asserting some necessary developments at Cisco Reside in San Diego in June. These adjustments will make it simpler to not solely write customized content material, however to additionally discover and share content material written by the Cisco XDR neighborhood.

This yr, we’re excited to host DEVNET-2236, DEVNET-2387, and the DevNet Innovation Zone demo sales space, the place we’ll showcase groundbreaking updates for Cisco XDR. Don’t miss out on the chance to study, join, and collaborate with our staff and the broader DevNet neighborhood.

Cisco XDR integrations can provide a number of totally different outcomes relying on what the expertise does and the way you wish to use it. A safety product, and even networking, collaboration, productiveness, and different merchandise, will be leveraged from inside XDR to do all this and extra:

• Present its safety occasion knowledge into the incident technology and evaluation pipeline
• Take part in menace looking and investigation duties in XDR by offering occasion knowledge and/or menace intelligence
• Show metrics, statistics, and different operational knowledge in XDR’s shared dashboard, corresponding to blocking malicious periods or recordsdata
• Talk and observe investigation and response exercise

Begin your Cisco Reside San Diego expertise with a deep dive into the newest developments in Cisco XDR. Whether or not you’re a DevNet fanatic, a safety skilled, or somebody captivated with innovation: that is your probability to see how Cisco XDR is taking incident response, automation, and neighborhood collaboration to the subsequent degree. Proceed studying for the small print!

What to Anticipate From Session DEVNET-2236

When: Monday, June ninth, at 3:00 PM
The place: DevNet Theater

In this session, we’ll discover how one can unlock the complete potential of Cisco XDR with customized integrations and automation. Right here’s a glimpse of what you’ll study:

• Customized Integrations: Uncover the right way to use virtually any product to achieve the outcomes described above, as relevant. New options in XDR have opened new pathways to participation within the Incident technology and correlation pipeline, and we’re excited to share extra information about these.
• Customized Workflows for Automation: Tune your incident investigation and response processes to match your distinctive safety wants.
• Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF): Be the primary to see how one can convey your individual knowledge into XDR’s knowledge warehouse utilizing this open commonplace (OCSF v1.4). We’re asserting some thrilling options round this, and we are going to present you a sneak peek!
• Group Options and XDR Content material Explorer: Discover ways to collaborate seamlessly with the DevNet neighborhood to share and innovate round XDR integrations.

This session is designed to encourage and empower you to take your safety operations to the subsequent degree. Whether or not you’re simply getting began with XDR or are already a complicated consumer, this session has one thing for everybody. Every part that we are going to demo will likely be made out there as quickly as potential after the session.

For people who keep till the tip of the DevNet session, there will likely be a present on the finish: you’ll obtain a coupon for a free professional suggestions session in your first OCSF workflow!

Signal Up for DEVNET-2236 immediately! Spots are restricted, so safe your seat now.

What to Anticipate From Session DEVNET-2387

When: Monday, June ninth, at 2:00 PM
The place: DevNet Theater

Be part of us for an thrilling session on an AI-assisted automation challenge in Cisco XDR, that’s designed to uplevel Safety Analyst effectivity. This challenge bridges the hole between handbook “fast lookup” instruments and automatic intelligence, empowering you to streamline investigations and customise workflows to your staff’s wants.

That is what you’ll study within the session:

• enhance the day of a Safety Analyst by automating entry to widespread investigative sources, like IP geolocation, area possession, or MAC tackle vendor particulars
• use a customizable, open XDR framework instrument to pivot to exterior sources and fetch desired knowledge immediately into the XDR UI
• save time with an AI agent that not solely retrieves knowledge but additionally generates summaries and performs meta-analysis utilizing LLMs to determine patterns, anomalies, and crimson flags throughout incident observables

This session is an “artwork of the potential” demonstration, full with GitHub hyperlinks that will help you discover and implement these thrilling capabilities in your individual surroundings.

Go to Us on the DevNet Innovation Zone Demo Sales space

When: Monday, June ninth, from 9:00 AM to five:00 PM
The place: DevNet Innovation Zone

Earlier than or after the session, be certain that to cease by the DevNet Innovation Zone demo sales space to:

• See Cisco XDR’s new options stay in motion
• Ask questions and get hands-on insights from our specialists
• Discover how customized workflows, integrations, and neighborhood options can rework your safety operations

That is your probability to work together immediately with the staff behind Cisco XDR and get customized steering on the right way to take advantage of these thrilling updates.

Closing Off the Day in Type

Because the day involves an finish, be part of us for drinks and networking on the demo sales space beginning at 5:00 PM. This can be a nice alternative to:

• Share your suggestions on what you’ve seen and realized
• Join with like-minded professionals and the DevNet neighborhood
• Rejoice the spirit of innovation and collaboration that defines Cisco Reside!

Let’s shut the day on a excessive observe collectively. See you there!

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So there’s one set of pipes that goes across the knowledge middle, accumulating the warmth from the server racks, and one other set of smaller pipes that lives inside particular person racks or servers. “That inside loop is a few type of technical fluid, and the 2 loops trade warmth throughout a warmth exchanger,” says Troung.

The most typical method in the present day, he says, is to make use of a single-phase liquid — one which stays in liquid type and by no means evaporates right into a fuel — resembling water or propylene glycol. However it’s not essentially the most environment friendly choice.

Evaporation is a good way to dissipate warmth. That’s what our our bodies do after we sweat. When water goes from a liquid to a fuel it’s referred to as a part change, and it makes use of up power and makes the whole lot round it barely cooler.

After all, few servers run scorching sufficient to boil water — however they will boil different liquids. “Two part is essentially the most environment friendly cooling expertise,” says Xianming (Simon) Dai, a professor at College of Texas at Dallas.

And it is likely to be right here earlier than you assume. In a keynote deal with in March at Nvidia GTC, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Rubin Extremely NVL576, due within the second half of 2027 — with 600 kilowatts per rack.

“With the 600 kilowatt racks that Nvidia is asserting, the trade must shift very quickly from single-phase approaches to two-phase,” says ZutaCore’s Troung.

One other highly-efficient cooling method is immersion cooling.

In response to a Castrol survey launched in March, 90% of 600 knowledge middle trade leaders say that they’re contemplating switching to immersion cooling by 2030.

However immersion cooling does have its downsides. In response to the survey, 38% of respondents are involved concerning the potential for leaks, 31% say that it’s too time-consuming to implement, and 31% fear about upkeep challenges.

Colocation supplier Equinix, which has greater than 260 knowledge facilities in 72 markets, has liquid cooling already accessible at 100 of them — and continues to construct new liquid-cooled amenities and retrofit older ones.

However it hasn’t seen a lot demand for immersion cooling but, says Phil Learn, the corporate’s senior director of knowledge middle companies. “It’s undoubtedly an space we’re monitoring,” he says. “It could possibly be attention-grabbing sooner or later.”

At the moment, nevertheless, the expertise nonetheless has some points. For one factor, there’s the load, he says. “You’re principally placing the load of a small automotive on a knowledge middle flooring.”

After which there’s the difficulty of the sorts of liquids which might be used for immersion cooling. “Equinix has a powerful sustainability posture and PFAS chemical substances are very problematic for us,” he says. “However we see these utilized in immersion cooling — and in two-phase cooling as properly.”

It’s not clear but precisely how the trade will handle the facility and cooling necessities of next-generation AI servers. Perhaps AI will provide you with some recommendations.

Cisco IOS XE presents superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and scale back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs corresponding to NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI, community directors can effectively provision and configure units, minimizing guide errors. The mixing of Zero-Contact Provisioning with DevOps toolkits accelerates machine onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry gives real-time information assortment for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting. Cisco’s automation options are extensible throughout your complete machine lifecycle, supporting seamless software program upgrades and patching. These options permit our clients to drive enterprise outcomes and be on the slicing fringe of community automation, enabling quicker, safer, and environment friendly community operations. 

Able to dive deeper into Cisco IOS XE programmability, automation and telemetry? Be part of us at Cisco Dwell AMEA in San Diego June 8 – 12, 2025!  

These classes cowl subjects starting from getting began with Cisco IOS XE programmability and automation, tooling with YANG Suite and Terraform, and subjects starting from trendy approaches for IOS XE community administration to Streaming Telemetry to Atomic Configuration Change. For the primary time ever, there might be a four-hour technical seminar masking an summary of all issues programmability with Cisco IOS XE. See the main points of the upcoming Cisco Dwell classes beneath: 

Technical Seminar 

Automating All Issues YANG, On a regular basis – Programmability and Automation 101 with Cisco IOS XE [TECOPS-2314] 

This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE contains an summary of the YANG primarily based APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each machine stage together with machine onboarding, machine configuration administration, machine monitoring and machine optimization. Many instruments corresponding to YANG Suite might be used to exhibit discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst units. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities can even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization might be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our units to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale. 

Breakout Periods 

Atomic Config Change with Cisco Catalyst 9000 [BRKENS-2604] 

Atomic Configuration and atomic config exchange is changing into an increasing number of requested, and this session dives deep into the newly launched options inside IOS XE and the Catalyst 9000 household. Having the ability to handle configuration in an atomic style permits groups to extra successfully handle the change and community configuration drift. Utilizing CLI or API the atomic config exchange options might be demonstrated so that you could instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config exchange. Simply exchange ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide a whole config and that config might be set no matter current configuration.  

Cisco IOS XE: Telemetry, Automation, and YANG—Oh My! [BRKOPS-1401] 

This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE contains an summary of the YANG primarily based APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each machine stage together with machine onboarding, machine configuration administration, machine monitoring and machine optimization. Many instruments corresponding to YANG Suite might be used to exhibit discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst units. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities can even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization might be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our units to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale. 

gRPC, gNMI, gNOI… Oh My! An Enterprise Community Automation Journey [BRKDEV-2017] 

What number of Google API micro companies are there on Cisco IOS XE, and what are their capabilities? On the finish of this session not solely will you be capable of reply this query with confidence however additionally, you will have a deep understanding of the options and actual world use circumstances which are enabled as a part of the Google Community Administration API. However what about Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry? What are the very best practices for mutual TLS authentication and assortment of huge quantities of telemetry information ? This session covers the entire Programmability & Automation lifecycle of the Cisco Catalyst 9000 when managed utilizing gRPC, gNMI and gNOI… oh my! 

The Community of the Future is Right here – Let’s Automate your IPv6 deployment with Python! [BRKOPS-2223] 

IPv6 marks a brand new horizon on this planet of networking, promising limitless IP addresses and enhanced community efficiency. It’s time to embark on this journey – however let’s do it the fitting means from the start: utilizing automation! On this 90 minute breakout you’ll learn to plan your IPv6 transition and easy methods to use Python to automate setting the plan into motion. You’ll study concerning the should is aware of of IPv6 in addition to helpful Python libraries that may enable you to on this journey, and see sensible actual life Python examples of deploying IPv6 configurations in your community. Workflow choices corresponding to automated testing and sources of fact can even be coated. This session is designed for community engineers who’ve a necessity to begin implementing IPv6. The session’s target market has little or no prior expertise with Python automation and is pretty new to IPv6 as nicely. After the breakout, the attendees have a risk to attempt the introduced subjects in observe via Seize the Flag missions. 

DEVNET & Cisco U Periods 

Fashionable approaches for IOS XE community machine administration on Cat9k [DEVNET-1110] 

In the event you handle any variety of IOS XE units instantly then this session is for you as a result of it can in a short time make you an skilled within the working system’s Day0-N options so that you could handle the community extra effectively. Day0 contains the lengthy standing ZTP Zero-Contact provisioning however when encryption is required end-to-end then the Safe ZTP options can be utilized. A comparability and advantages of every might be demonstrated 

Day 1 API with a deal with the tooling to allow success no matter NETCONF or RESTCONF & Ansible or Terraform. What are the very best practices when shifting away from the CLI and leveraging automation? What about Atomic config exchange operations? 

Day 2 Telemetry helps transition from gradual SNMP to enhanced speeds with YANG to exhibit the highest sustainability usecases. 

Day N exhibits the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for holding the operational prices low through the use of the built-in automation capabilities. 

Observability at TorIX: Customized Telemetry Options on Subsequent-gen Campus Switching [CISCOU-1059] 

The Toronto Web Change is likely one of the bigger international Web Change Factors and a vital interconnection level for a lot of organizations. The in-production telemetry visualization resolution contains complete insights into the Enterprise Community utilizing subsequent gen campus switches and the Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) characteristic. This resolution from Blue Flag Consulting interprets actual enterprise questions into actionable visualizations to assist solutions questions like “What’s the hourly error charge for manufacturing switches in San Diego” and “What’s the whole bandwidth this month for ISP site visitors?” Subjects embrace configuring telemetry subscriptions and securely sending telemetry information via the telemetry stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Be part of us and elevate your Enterprise Networking with the newest campus switching and discover the huge array of telemetry capabilities and visualization insights! 

Stroll-in Labs for Fingers-On 

These classes can be found inside the world of options all through the length of the Cisco Dwell week 

Effectively monitoring machine statistics in real-time utilizing gRPC Dial-out with IOS XE [LABPRG-2004] 

Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) addresses most of the shortfalls of legacy monitoring capabilities and gives an improved strategy to handle community units. The normal use of the pull mannequin, and doesn’t scale nicely. This lab exhibits gRPC Dial-Out gives extra environment friendly, dependable mechanism to push telemetry information to gather periodic information & triggered occasions. 

Discover and take a look at YANG fashions for model-driven telemetry on IOS XE with Cisco’s YANG Suite [LABOPS-2000] 

Contemplating shifting away from SNMP-based community monitoring to model-based telemetry? Your journey would possibly start with the duty of researching advanced and interdependent YANG fashions to seek out the info paths wanted to implement your automation or streaming telemetry technique. That’s the place Cisco’s YANG Suite tooling excels and might vastly scale back the time essential for this analysis. YANG Suite abstracts the complexities of coping with YANG fashions of their native textual content format and means that you can simply construct and take a look at community APIs utilizing a range community protocols together with NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. On this session, contributors will get helpful hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can study to carry out frequent duties required to assist model-driven automation and telemetry initiatives. The lab will observe a typical analysis and testing workflow the place the participant will: • Discover YANG fashions utilizing YANG Suite’s graphical interface • Construct RPCs in YANG Suite • Ship RPCs to stay Cisco infrastructure and observe outcomes 

Fingers-On Lab: Monitoring Cisco IOS XE Gadgets with RESTCONF [LABDEV-2001] 

This lab session presents a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE units utilizing RESTCONF. Individuals will learn to create their very own customized monitoring software utilizing Python to retrieve and handle machine configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. By means of guided workout routines, attendees will achieve hands-on expertise in establishing RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE units, crafting API requests, and decoding responses. By the top of the session, contributors might be outfitted with the data and expertise to successfully combine RESTCONF into their community administration workflows. This session requires fundamental data in programming and API understanding. 

Keep Linked 

Browse the complete session catalog and register for Cisco Dwell right here. Trying ahead to seeing you at Cisco Dwell! 

Irrespective of the place you’re in your programmability and automation journey there’s at all times new and thrilling content material that can assist you to dive even deeper whereas studying about new applied sciences and capabilities for the enterprise community. 

Not in a position to attend Cisco Dwell this time? No worries! Take a look at Cisco IOS XE programmability classes from the earlier Cisco Dwell Occasions: 

2025 – Amsterdam 

2024 – Melbourne 

2024 – Las Vegas 

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