Why Cisco Continues to invest in AI Native RunOn: Bringing Context, Visibility, and AI to Multi-Cloud

Why Cisco Continues to invest in AI Native RunOn: Bringing Context, Visibility, and AI to Multi-Cloud

By Rajesh Bansal, Ruchir Gandhi, Jeff Hemric
Publication Date: 2026-10-05 18:31:00

At Cisco, cloud infrastructure spans multiple providers and tens of thousands of accounts. it’s fragmented. Provisioning happens through multiple control planes, spend is tracked separately, and cost optimization, security, and health findings live in even more systems. Each system provides only part of the picture. The challenge is connecting the information and turning it into actionable intelligence that achieves business outcomes. 

One view of the cloud estate 

RunOn connects multi-cloud infrastructure directly to organizational context—mapping cloud accounts, spending, and operational findings to the teams and departments responsible for them. By unifying data from existing systems into My Cloud Universe, the platform provides a single view of Cisco’s public and private cloud footprint, instantly identifying who funds each asset, who owns it, and what needs to happen next, all within a unified AI experience. 

Different roles, different views 

Engineers, executives,…