Cisco has unveiled a solution for building AI infrastructure designed to support workload data fabrics, further enabling enterprises to securely use their data for agentic AI at enterprise-scale. With this new solution, the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA expands to new use cases, including the acceleration of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with faster data extraction and retrieval. This new capability ensures AI agents have instant, secure access to the data they need, when they need it.
Cisco AI PODs, the AI Infrastructure building blocks of the Secure AI Factory, are now available with VAST InsightEngine, a core capability of VAST Data AI OS. These AI PODs deliver a fully integrated solution using the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design to transform raw data into AI-ready datasets. Within the AI PODs, the Cisco UCS server portfolio with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs together provide exceptional performance for next-generation AI applications. RTX PRO Servers from Cisco are some of the first systems to deliver the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design.
NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI software ensures low-latency model interaction, and Cisco’s high-performance ethernet networking connects compute and data seamlessly. This unified solution enables AI agents to operate with near-real-time business insights, backed by the security, governance and flexibility of the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA architecture. Through this architecture, customers can gain unique visibility into their environments with Splunk, and apply safety and security guardrails to every token using Cisco AI Defense.
“Agentic AI has the potential to unlock the value of AI for enterprises around the world. Moving beyond chatbots to agents that can help solve true business challenges is revolutionary, but only if enterprises can effectively leverage the right data at the right times. Cisco, NVIDIA and VAST are working together to give customers a simple path to unlocking the value of their data,” said Jeremy Foster, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco Compute. “We are designing the architecture for how the enterprise will build the next generation of AI factories.”
“The next wave of agentic AI will be fueled by enterprise data, enabling agents to tap into business knowledge during inference for precise, up-to-date insights,” said Justin Boitano, vice president, Enterprise AI at NVIDIA. “Bringing together Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA and VASTInsightEngine creates an integrated platform for running powerful AI agents at scale.”
“By integrating the VAST Data InsightEngine into the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, we’re giving enterprises the first integrated design for RAG acceleration at scale,” said John Mao, vice president of strategic alliances at VAST Data. “This collaboration with Cisco and NVIDIA represents a major milestone in the evolution of enterprise AI. The integration of the VAST InsightEngine into the Secure AI Factory architecture sets the stage for a new era where intelligent agents can operate securely, collaboratively, and at unprecedented scale.”
