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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.
Watch nowUnleashing 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.
Read our blogGet 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
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.
Learn moreWhy 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.
Read our blogUnlock 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.
Read the whitepaperLossless 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.
Get the CVD Get the blueprintCisco 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.
Read the press releaseTransform 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.
Experiment with NVIDIA microservices(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
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Resources
Unleash the full potential of your network with AI
Read blogTop Data Center Priorities—Evolving Needs for Scaling Infrastructure
Read blogAchieve new performance standards
Watch videoThe new workplace: powered by AI and Collaboration Devices
Read blogWhy 2024 is the Year of AI for Networking
Read blogBuilding Data Center Infrastructure for the AI Revolution
Read blogCisco AI Readiness Index
Download reportUnlocking scalable generative AI: Cisco's innovative design
Read design guideCisco Validated Design (CVD) program helps deploy AI/ML faster, reliably, predictably
Download whitepaperNVIDIA AI Enterprise Quick Start Guide
DownloadNVIDIA AI Enterprise User Guide
DownloadNVIDIA AI Enterprise Support Services
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