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Pure Storage and Cisco Deliver AI Factories for the Enterprise with NVIDIA

Unifying compute, storage and networking to take generative AI from pilot to production.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 28, 2025 - Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG) and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a new FlashStack® Cisco Validated Design (CVD), adding to the collection of AI PODs, a key module within the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA. The collaboration brings together compute, storage, networking, and software in one unified, production-grade platform to help enterprises move from AI pilot projects to large-scale deployment with confidence.

"Too often, enterprises focus on GPUs and compute power, but without reliable data, the model never reaches its potential," said Maciej Kranz, GM, Enterprise, Pure Storage. "Our collaboration with Cisco and NVIDIA removes those data barriers, giving customers the performance, simplicity, and efficiency they need to operationalize AI."

Enterprise AI is no longer an experiment. Organizations have spent months running pilot projects and proof-of-concepts, testing large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-powered assistants, and domain-specific AI applications. But here is the problem many of them hit: the model is ready before the data is.

"With this new FlashStack CVD, we're not just validating hardware, we're orchestrating all the elements of RAG into an AI-ready infrastructure, removing complexity and reducing risk so customers can focus on turning data into insights that drive strategic outcomes," explains Jeremy Foster, SVP & GM, Cisco Compute.

AI success isn't just about training models. It's about having data pipelines you can trust. Without them, even the most powerful models stall. For many enterprises, fragmented data architectures, limited visibility, and operational friction make moving from pilot to production feel like an uphill battle.

At the core of this collaboration is a shared goal: simplify the path from experimentation to scalable, reliable AI deployment. The AI factory integrates:

  • Pure Storage FlashBlade//S™ – enterprise-level data management at scale solution
  • Cisco UCS C845a servers – GPU-accelerated compute powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs
  • NVIDIA AI Enterprise  software – a production-ready software stack for building and deploying AI at scale

Together, these technologies create the blueprint for the enterprise AI factory, an end-to-end platform that turns data into insights across use cases like RAG, agentic AI, semantic search, video analytics, and code generation.

Discover the capabilities of FlashBlade//S™, Cisco UCS C845a servers powered by NVIDIA GPUs, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and blueprints at NVIDIA GTC, October 27-29 in Washington, D.C., or visit www.FlashStack.com.

 

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