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AI Shop Talk Series

In this new video series, we offer organizations a comprehensive guide effective AI implementation. This sequence of presentations ranges from high-level overviews to in-depth technical explorations—emphasizing key decisions around infrastructure, architecture, and software. Expert insights provide strategies and technical tactics that will maximize AI investments.

We advocate a practical approach to AI deployment: build, test, and immerse in the process before making significant investments. This method supports scalability and provides a clear path to performance.

Start watching now and look for upcoming episodes that will delve into crucial topics, such as AI networking, operations, and security.

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Cisco Unveils Plug-and-Play AI Solutions to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption

Cisco has announced new plug-and-play AI solutions designed to simplify and accelerate AI adoption for enterprises. With these scalable and adaptive solutions, Cisco aims to break down barriers to AI adoption, enabling businesses to innovate and grow without added complexity. Discover how Cisco is paving the way for a smarter, AI-driven future.

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Unleashing the Power of AI in the Enterprise: Cisco’s support for NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints

Cisco now supports NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints, offering a catalog of pretrained, customizable AI workflows. These blueprints help enterprise developers build advanced generative AI applications with ease.

Why Choose Cisco and NVIDIA?

Customizable AI Workflows: Tailor AI solutions to your specific needs
Secure and Scalable Platform: Integrate seamlessly with Cisco’s AI solutions
Enhanced Business Value: Automate processes, improve decision-making, and innovate with confidence

Read the full blog to see how Cisco and NVIDIA can help you confidently step into the future of AI.

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Artificial Intelligeince I Infrastucture

Get your infrastructure up to speed for AI workloads

Most organizations recognize AI will increase infrastructure workloads, but only 13% of organizations say their networks are fully ready for AI now
Assess your AI readiness and accelerate your path to an AI native future today

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The AI software market alone is projected to grow to by 40% per year over the next decade

Organizations tasked with supporting a wide range of demanding workloads will appreciate the power, simplicity, and flexibility offered by Cisco X-Series and NVIDIA GPUs.

Combining UCS with NVIDIA architectures brings together the power of high-performance computing, AI acceleration, enhanced VDI, improved data analytics, simplified management, scalability, and compatibility.

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Why choose Cisco X-Series and NVIDIA GPUs?

High-performance computing: unmatched computing power for AI and more
AI acceleration: effortless AI workload acceleration
Enhanced VDI: superior virtual desktop infrastructure performance
Data analytics: boosted data analytics capabilities
Simplified management: easier management and scalability

Ready to transform your AI infrastructure?

Learn how Cisco and NVIDIA help you deploy and manage secure AI infrastructure quickly and easily.

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Unlock AI advantages with NVAIE

NVIDIA® AI Enterprise (NVAIE) is an end-to-end, cloud-native suite of AI and data analytics software optimized so every organization can succeed with AI.

Certified to deploy anywhere—from the enterprise data center to the public cloud
Utilizes key enabling technologies and software for rapid deployment, management, and scaling of AI workloads in the modern hybrid cloud
Simplified deployment in virtualized and containerized environments using Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs)
Cisco-managed system certifications
Includes global enterprise support and training

Designing AI success

To maximize the benefits of AI, network administrators need the right hardware, software features, and configurations to support AI applications. Our CVD is specifically designed to address these needs, ensuring seamless integration of AI/ML applications in data centers.

Learn how FlashStack, FlexPod, and Cisco Run:AI accelerate success.

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Lossless fabric with RoCEv2

To take advantage of the benefits of AI, network admins need to deploy the right hardware and software features, along with a configuration that supports AI application needs.

Our solution provides a lossless fabric with RoCEv2, removing the challenges of networking AI/ML applications inside data centers.

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Cisco HyperShield—Hyperscaler Security and Connectivity for the Enterprise

Cisco Hypershield allows customers to put security wherever they need to—in the cloud, in the data center, on a factory floor, or a hospital imaging room.

Learn how FlashStack, FlexPod, and Cisco Run:AI accelerate success.

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Transform your data center with AI development toolsets

The Cisco and NVIDIA partnership offers a range of secure, observable, end-to-end enterprise-level AI solutions, turning your data center into an AI innovation engine.

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NVIDIA NGC microservices

Secure and stable production AI with NVIDIA NGC microservices
Supported on over 400 NVIDIA-certified systems, including Cisco servers and workstations
Pre-built containers powered by NVIDIA inference software reduce deployment times from weeks to minutes

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Simplified AI infrastructure management

Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Cisco Intersight streamline AI infrastructure management and operations
Manage your AI infrastructure both on-premise and in the cloud with ease

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Cutting-edge compute platforms

Leverage the latest generation compute platforms with fast CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs for efficient AI workload processing
Ensure timely execution and improved performance with advanced hardware

Created with our partner ecosystem, these containerized AI microservices are the building blocks for enterprises in every industry to become AI companies.

— Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA

The benefits of partnership

Cisco and NVIDIA: meet your new AI Infrastructure

Cisco and NVIDIA share a vision and commitment to help customers navigate the transition to AI. Their combined generative AI solutions, accelerated by NVIDIA and fueled by data connected in a Cisco network, can foundationally accelerate AI integration. Together, Cisco and NVIDIA solutions enable enterprises to grow with the massive computing power needed to succeed in this new era of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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(Our new solutions) are going to arm enterprises with the technology and the expertise they need to build…AI solutions at scale.

— Chuck Robbins, Chair and CEO, Cisco