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Cisco AI-Native Infrastructure for Data Center

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. Is your data center ready?

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Accelerate your path to an AI-native future, today

Scale AI workloads, simplify operations, and support sustainability initiatives with a modern, secure data center infrastructure—with fully integrated systems and Cisco Validated Designs.

Match readiness to growing AI demand

6x increase

Evolving power needs

In large part due to AI, power demand from data centers is expected to see a six-fold increase over the coming decade. (John Pettigrew, CEO of National Grid, March 2024)
79%

Network latency

79% of enterprise networks must reduce latency and/or improve throughput to fully support AI workloads. (Cisco AI Readiness Index, November 2023)

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41%

AI-enabled visibility

60% of IT leaders and professionals expect to have AI-enabled predictive network automation in place across all domains to manage NetOps. (Cisco 2024 Global Networking Trends Report)

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Design your data center for AI infrastructure

Discover our AI infrastructure blueprints for scale out for large deployments, data center, and edge inferencing or scale up for high performance.
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Deliver full-stack AI-native infrastructure everywhere—edge, cloud, data center

Support and scale AI workloads. Modernize your infrastructure with an open and disaggregated consume-as-you-like model and fully integrated systems with Cisco Validated Designs.

UCS X-Series Modular System

Scale your AI infrastructure with Ethernet-based networks and modular compute capabilities.

Unbox the future

Cisco Intersight IT operations platform

Support the infrastructure for AI workloads from a single cloud-based point of control.

Work smarter and faster

FlexPod

Accelerate workloads by uniting compute, storage, networking, and management across your infrastructure.

Run any application with confidence

FlashStack

Modernize your data center and simplify operations—while saving time, space, money, and energy.

Add simplicity

Purpose-built servers for AI

Train, tune, and deploy your AI models confidently at scale with GPU-dense servers.

Discover the possibilities

Start modernizing your data center

Prepare your infrastructure to be ready for AI workloads.

Set up your data center for success

Hyperconvergence with Nutanix

Deploy GPT models quickly and with confidence with a GPT-in-a-Box solution. Benefit from a validated, turnkey AI solution that can easily and securely scale while maintaining control of data and applications.

Easily deploy and grow with hyperconvergence

Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Configure infrastructure with ease, minimize risk and downtime, and improve data center sustainability.

Simplify network operations

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches

Leverage a scalable network infrastructure that supports the high throughput and low latency needs of AI.

Switch things up

Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

Make your network agile and radically simplify, secure, automate, and accelerate network deployment.

Optimize your network

Cisco NX-OS

Build high-performance networks for AI/ML that offer flexibility, scalability, modularity, and improved performance.

Reduce complexity and improve resiliency

Cisco Optics

Harness the full potential of AI/ML with high-quality, high-performance optical transceivers.

Plug into AI

Realize the full potential of AI

Discover how Cisco's partnership with NVIDIA democratizes AI for the AI era.

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AI-ready infrastructure consultation

Receive expert guidance on modernizing your network and compute infrastructure with AI-ready infrastructure.

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AI PODs for Inferencing

What are AI PODs for inferencing?

Speed up your infrastructure deployments for AI inferencing with validated designs and pre-scripted automations.

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Explore the components and configurations of the infrastructure stack that make up the AI PODs for inferencing.

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The time for AI-powered technologies is now

See why 2024 is the year of AI for networking

The key to powering AI is optimized infrastructure and simplified IT operations.

Transform your business

Secure your full-stack AI infrastructure

Defend modern AI data centers with Cisco Hypershield.

Protect your entire data center

Evolve the infrastructure for AI

Deliver high-quality experiences through intelligent and operationally efficient Ethernet fabrics.

Prepare for the AI revolution

Create sustainable AI infrastructures

Develop a resilient and more sustainable AI data center environment.

Reimagine the possible

Customize your AI journey

AI Readiness Assessment

Evaluate your level of AI preparedness

AI information hub

Meet your new AI infrastructure

Silicon One

Power the internet for the future

Cisco Data Center Security

Protect data proactively