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).

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

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.

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.

Full-stack, converged compute architecture unifies compute, networking, & storage into one platform, backed by a vast partner ecosystem. Modular design, high-performance networks & pre-validated designs ensure fast, agile, uninterrupted AI ops.

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.

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

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.

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

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