In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Co-founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh and Cisco President Jeetu Patel break down the real constraints shaping the AI era and explore why platforms will define the next decade of enterprise innovation. They'll also talk about how secure, scalable architectures enable organizations to innovate confidently and compete at AI speed.

Discover the latest addition to WWT's AI Proving Ground — the Cisco UCS C885A server. Technical Solutions Architect, Chris Braun, walks us through the unboxing of our newest hardware that is part of the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA environment. Equipped with 8 NVIDIA H200 GPUs, this powerhouse is designed for LLM training, fine-tuning, inference, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

AI Canvas is Cisco's first Generative UI for cross-domain IT-a shared, intelligent workspace that brings real-time telemetry, AI insights, and team collaboration into one view.

The Cisco Secure AI Factory, developed in collaboration with ‪NVIDIA‬ and strategic partners, is a powerful solution that propels enterprises toward secure and rapid AI adoption. This integrated solution combines cutting-edge AI infrastructure, inherent security features, and advanced AI software tools, paving the way for transformative possibilities.

Cisco's Hybrid Mesh Firewall solution is a highly distributed security fabric optimized to stop advanced threats, protect application vulnerabilities, and implement zero trust segmentation across environments.

As AI moves from predictive analytics to real-time autonomous decision-making, enterprises face a critical challenge: scaling AI securely and efficiently. This episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast explores key takeaways from NVIDIA GTC, the evolving Cisco-NVIDIA partnership and the foundational role AI infrastructure plays in unlocking enterprise-scale AI. Featuring WWT VP of Networking and AI Solutions Neil Anderson, NVIDIA SVP of Networking Kevin Deierling and Cisco SVP of Networking Kevin Wollenweber, the episode covers insights into networking, security, and compute innovations, and how Cisco, NVIDIA and WWT are shaping the future of AI-powered businesses.

Cisco's end-to-end solution to secure the AI transformation in enterprises.

The era of digital abundance, driven by AI and next-generation workloads, demands infrastructure that is not only robust but also future-ready.

Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA is a scalable, high-performance, and secure AI infrastructure from Cisco, NVIDIA, and our strategic partners to help accelerate the adoption of AI for enterprises.

Given the challenges of today's threat landscape, nothing less than a radical rethinking of security will do. Cisco Hypershield is it.

In this technology demonstration, we will showcase the deployment of an AI workload using Cisco Intersight automation on a single UCS X-Series blade, leveraging a neighboring X440p (X-Fabric) with an NVIDIA A40 GPU. This demo will highlight the powerful capabilities of both Cisco Intersight and the Cisco AI Toolkit, which includes tools for AI model deployment, system monitoring, and resource management. By utilizing Miniconda for environment management, CUDA for GPU acceleration, and various large language models like Vicuna and Meta OPT, we will feed data into a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) model.

Watch an exclusive webinar where we  Go Beyond the headlines of Cisco Live 2025. We'll unpack the biggest announcements across Cisco's key focus areas —Security, Networking, and AI.