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Simplify AI deployment with Cisco and NVIDIA

84%

of organizations expect AI to impact their business in 2024

Cisco and NVIDIA have laid the groundwork to help those organizations simplify and remove the uncertainty in deploying AI environments and secure AI infrastructures. This collaboration enables enterprise, public sector, service provider, and web-scale IT teams to fully enable AI/ML infrastructures in their data centers.

Just announced—you can now simplify your AI Infrastructure with Cisco Nexus HyperFabric, and unlock the power of generative AI with Cisco and NVIDIA.

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Software Growth

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

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Cisco NVIDIA AI Infrastructure
Cisco NVIDIA AI Infrastructure

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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Cisco NVIDIA AI Infrastructure
Cisco NVIDIA AI Infrastructure

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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Cisco NVIDIA AI Infrastructure

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.

1

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

2

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

3

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

Resources

The new workplace: powered by AI and Collaboration Devices

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Why 2024 is the Year of AI for Networking

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Building Data Center Infrastructure for the AI Revolution

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Cisco AI Readiness Index

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Unlocking scalable generative AI: Cisco's innovative design

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Cisco Validated Design (CVD) program helps deploy AI/ML faster, reliably, predictably

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NVIDIA AI Enterprise Quick Start Guide

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NVIDIA AI Enterprise User Guide

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NVIDIA AI Enterprise Support Services

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