Accelerate Enterprise AI Innovation – Securely and at Scale – with Cisco, NVIDIA and World Wide Technology
Unlocking AI's business value for the enterprise
Organizations face mounting pressure to demonstrate business value from AI investments but struggle with strategy alignment, use case prioritization, and foundational challenges like data readiness, governance, and integration.
Deploying and scaling secure, high-performing AI infrastructure is complex, and security is essential to agentic AI deployments. Strong integration and validation can reduce risks for enterprises and speed the path to production for scalable AI adoption, delivering measurable business value.
What is Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA delivered by WWT?
The Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, a modular reference design, is a transformative solution to accelerate the delivery of trusted and transformative AI applications.
This integrated offering combines Cisco's market-leading networking, security, observability, and compute capabilities with NVIDIA's cutting-edge AI innovation—operationalized by WWT to deliver real-world business outcomes. Built on Cisco's 40-year legacy of high-performance Ethernet networking trusted by over 300,000 organizations globally, the solution ensures reliable, scalable infrastructure for AI workloads such as model training, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and inferencing.
Security is embedded natively across every layer of the stack, enabling enterprises to confidently operationalize AI and GenAI pipelines using their own data and models. WWT's 35+ years of experience in deploying complex, integrated solutions globally—combined with its AI Proving Ground and robust AI Studio and AI Foundry services portfolio and AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR) framework —ensures derisked, scalable implementations. The result is accelerated delivery of AI applications and tokens, unlocking new capabilities in prediction, generation, and reasoning. Together, Cisco, NVIDIA, and WWT empower organizations to realize their AI aspirations with agility, trust, and measurable impact.
The WWT Advantage for Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
WWT delivers a comprehensive, end-to-end approach to secure enterprise AI adoption—starting with strategic alignment and continuing through validation, integration, and global deployment.
AI Studio
WWT's AI Studio helps organizations align leadership and strategy around AI. Through workshops and assessments, clients identify high-value use cases, define success metrics, and build a phased roadmap for secure AI adoption.
- Executive alignment & vision development
- Use case discovery & prioritization
- ROI modeling & governance planning
AI Foundry
Translating strategy into execution, AI Foundry builds secure, scalable AI applications using NVIDIA enterprise reference architectures and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
- Data pipeline engineering
- Model development & integration
- Security embedded across infrastructure
ARMOR Framework
WWT's AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR) ensures security, governance, and compliance are embedded from day one.
- Lifecycle-based governancehttps://www.wwt.com/article/what-is-wwts-ai-foundry
- Regulatory alignment (GDPR, HIPAA, EU AI Act)
- Audit-ready AI infrastructure
WWT brings deep domain expertise across key verticals—financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and public sector—ensuring AI solutions are tailored to meet industry-specific challenges and compliance requirements.
- Vertical-specific frameworks: Solutions are designed with awareness of regulatory environments, data gravity, and operational nuances unique to each industry.
- Applied AI use cases: Expertise in generative AI, agentic AI, computer vision, and digital twins aligned to real-world business outcomes.
- Secure data strategy: Governance and readiness frameworks ensure data quality, security, and compliance are embedded from the start.
This industry-first approach ensures that AI initiatives are not only technically sound but also aligned with business goals and regulatory standards.
AI Proving Ground
WWT's AI Proving Ground is a hands-on testing environment to simulate real-world AI workloads and validate infrastructure before deployment.
- Risk reduction through pre-deployment validation
- Real-time performance testing
- Structured learning paths for AI infrastructure, networking, and security
Cyber Range
WWT's Cyber Range, hosted in the Advanced Technology Center, offers organizations a dynamic, hands-on environment for cybersecurity training and skill development.
- Guided Learning Paths to build practical cybersecurity expertise
- Capture the Flag challenges for real-world scenario training
- Upskill staff effectively with customized exercises
Global Integration Centers
WWT ensures seamless deployment of secure AI infrastructure across the globe.
- End-to-end lifecycle management
- On-site delivery and support
- Staging, configuration, and integration
- 1M+ systems shipped annually to 150+ countries
Explore the AI architecture: Core Components
AI Software
NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Run:ai
Cloud-native software tools, libraries, frameworks, dynamic GPU resource allocation, AI workload scheduling, and production-ready models for AI deployments.
Security
Secure AI models, applications, workloads, and infrastructure with Cisco AI Defense integrated with NVIDIA AI, Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall, and Splunk Enterprise Security TDIR Platform.
Networking
Data center switching
Your network, your way: network infrastructure powered by Cisco Data Center switching and NVIDIA Spectrum-X.
Compute
Cisco Servers - Unified Computing System (UCS)
Cisco UCS® Servers based on NVIDIA HGX, MGX, and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition.
Storage
Cisco and NVIDIA-certified storage partners
Choice of high performance and scalable storage from partners such as NetApp, Pure Storage, VAST Data.
Observability
Splunk Observability
Enables visibility into the health, performance, and consumption of critical AI infrastructure components, helping to ensure the full AI stack operates as intended.
Benefits of AI infrastructure delivered on-prem and built for you
Protects the entire AI stack end to end, covering AI software, workloads, and infrastructure. With built-in security and real-time observability, it helps ensure AI stack runs with confidence and trust.
Built on Cisco's market-leading networking—trusted by 300K organizations globally—and powered by Cisco UCS AI Servers and NVIDIA accelerated computing, the solution delivers high-speed, low-latency networking and powerful computational capabilities essential for demanding AI workloads.
Optimized for enterprise AI workloads, the solution ensures compatibility with leading AI frameworks and tools, enabling efficient model training, customization, and inferencing.
Enterprises can choose between a vertically integrated stack or a modular system, with pre-validated designs that simplify deployments and improve operational efficiency.
- AI PODs with on-prem network management: Modular, pre-validated infrastructure with Cisco Nexus Dashboard, full-stack buy and deploy, backed by Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs).
- AI Pods with cloud management: Turnkey infrastructure with full-stack buy and deploy. Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric for cloud-managed networking, and Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI for cloud-managed infrastructure.
Delivering business outcomes through key AI use cases
The Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, delivered by WWT, is designed to support a wide range of advanced enterprise AI and GenAI workloads.
Knowledgebase Copilots
Deploy AI-powered assistants that help employees access and synthesize internal knowledge, policies, and documentation.
Enable rapid, secure retrieval of enterprise data for decision support and productivity.
Content & Code Generation
Automate the creation of marketing materials, technical documentation, and code snippets.
Accelerate content workflows for engineering, product, and business teams.
Virtual Agents & Chatbots
Build domain-specific, multilingual virtual agents for customer service, IT support, and HR.
Support real-time, secure interactions with customers and employees.
Detection & Prediction
Implement AI models for forecasting, anomaly detection, risk management, and predictive maintenance.
Use advanced analytics to identify trends, prevent failures, and optimize operations.
Visual Computing
Enable medical imaging analysis, video analytics, and 3D simulations for healthcare, manufacturing, and research.
Support computer vision use cases such as defect detection, facial recognition, and scene understanding.
Language Translations
Leverages generative AI to instantly translate chats, emails, and support tickets, enabling global teams to assist users in any language.
Helps marketers and internal teams localize content and documentation supporting real-time meeting transcription and translation.
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