As organizations move beyond experimentation, compute has become a deciding factor in whether AI delivers real value or stalls before production. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT VP Neil Anderson, NVIDIA VP Chris Marriott and Cisco VP Daniel McGinniss talk about how organizations are rethinking where AI runs, how it's secured and how value is measured.

Cisco's Nicolas Sagnes and World Wide Technology's Bob Watson outline why the next generation of AI infrastructure must be engineered as a secure, observable, full-stack system — and why enterprises relying on pilots risk falling behind.

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).

Redefine edge computing with a full stack platform that delivers data center performance, modularity, centralized management, and built-in security where you need it most.

Cisco Unified Edge integrates NVIDIA technologies to extend the performance and industry-specific capabilities of the platform.

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.

Learn how you can control your UCS servers, converged infrastructure, and hyperconverged infrastructure using Cisco Intersight.

A cloud managed, high performance, easy to deploy and operate, consolidated network - integrated with your Al stack.

WWT's Matt Halcomb walks us through the installation of the Cisco FlashStack AI environment in the AI Proving Ground. After the infrastructure is installed, Matt shows us the software component integration. We're excited to continue to build new environments with our partners.

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.

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

Discover how Cisco's platform approach empowers McLaren's digital resiliency from edge to cloud, ensuring maximum reliability across their race operations.