At the Cisco Partner Summit 2016 conference, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins today pledged to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms in the months ahead as part of an effort to drive analytics, automation and security deep into both the data center and the core networks that connect them. "We'll be driving AI into the core and across the security layer," says Robbins. "The network has been watching everything that happens for the past 20 years. The time has come to unleash that power." While Robbins did not provide any specifics, he did say those capabilities will extend from public and private clouds out to endpoints using one common integrated architecture that provides a unified IT experience. In the meantime, Cisco today launched the latest extension of the Cisco UCS Series.