Cisco Launches ACE For Machine Data

Cisco introduces ACE (Analytics Context Engineering), a framework that constructs hybrid data views and a virtual filesystem to transform nested JSON/AST machine payloads for LLM consumption. ACE stores full-fidelity data in an external datastore, generates columnar and row-oriented views, and reports reductions in token usage (from 5,025 to 2,350) with improved answer accuracy in troubleshooting tests.