News Summary
- Companies to offer enterprises simplified cloud-based and
on-premises AI infrastructure, networking and software, including
infrastructure management, secure AI infrastructure, observable
end-to-end AI solutions and access to NVIDIA AI Enterprise software
that supports the building and deployment of advanced AI and
generative AI workloads.
- Cisco and NVIDIA's purpose-built Ethernet networking-based
solutions will be sold through Cisco's vast global channel,
offering professional services and support through key partners who
are committed to helping businesses deploy their GPU clusters via
Ethernet infrastructure.
- The collaboration has attracted key customers like
ClusterPower, a cloud services provider in Europe, to help drive data center operations
with innovative AI/ML solutions that are foundational for its
client infrastructure and services.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CISCO LIVE
EMEA -- Cisco and NVIDIA today announced plans to deliver AI
infrastructure solutions for the data center that are easy to
deploy and manage, enabling the massive computing power that
enterprises need to succeed in the AI era.
"AI is fundamentally changing how we work and live, and history
has shown that a shift of this magnitude is going to require
enterprises to rethink and re-architect their infrastructures,"
said Chuck Robbins, Chair and CEO,
Cisco. "Strengthening our great partnership with NVIDIA is going to
arm enterprises with the technology and the expertise they need to
build, deploy, manage, and secure AI solutions at scale."
"Companies everywhere are racing to transform their businesses
with generative AI," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of
NVIDIA. "Working closely with Cisco, we're making it easier than
ever for enterprises to obtain the infrastructure they need to
benefit from AI, the most powerful technology force of our
lifetime."
A Powerful Partnership
Cisco, with its industry-leading expertise in Ethernet
networking and extensive partner ecosystem, together with NVIDIA,
the inventor of the GPU that fueled the AI boom, share a vision and
commitment to help customers navigate the transitions for AI with
highly secure Ethernet-based infrastructure.
Cisco and NVIDIA have offered a broad range of integrated
product solutions over the past several years across Webex
collaboration devices and data center compute environments to
enable hybrid workforces with flexible workspaces, AI-powered
meetings and virtual desktop infrastructure. The companies are now
deepening their partnership in the data center to enable enterprise
customers with scalable and automated AI cluster management,
automated troubleshooting, best-in-class customer experiences, and
more. Highlights include:
Cisco and NVIDIA Integrated Data Center Solutions Available
Today
- NVIDIA's newest Tensor Core GPUs are available in Cisco's M7
generation of UCS rack and blade servers, including Cisco UCS
X-Series and UCS X-Series Direct, to enable optimal performance
across a broad array of AI and data-intensive workloads in the data
center and at the edge
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise, which includes software frameworks,
pretrained models and development tools for more secure, stable and
supported production AI is now available on Cisco's global price
list.
- Jointly validated reference architectures through Cisco
Validated Designs (CVDs) make it simple to deploy and manage AI
clusters at any scale in a wide array of use cases spanning
virtualized and containerized environments, with both converged and
hyperconverged options. CVDs for FlexPod and FlashStack for
Generative AI Inferencing with NVIDIA AI Enterprise
will be available this month, with more to follow.
- Supporting Cisco Networking Cloud: Cisco simplified
AI infrastructure management and operations through both
on-premises and cloud-based management with Cisco Nexus Dashboard
and Cisco Intersight.
- Digital Experience Monitoring: With AI workloads
and data in the public cloud, on premises and across multiple data
centers, ThousandEyes provides Digital Experience Monitoring to
provide AI-driven insights and automated remediation of problems
that occur anywhere across the cloud to on-premises networks.
- The Cisco Observability Platform uses AI
capabilities to contextualize and correlate real-time telemetry
across domains, so organizations can better attain the visibility,
insights and actions to improve digital experiences.
- Partners Reducing Risks: As organizations plan to
successfully adopt AI and automation, they will look to Cisco's
global ecosystem of partners to advise, support and guide
them.
"Building AI compute-based environments can be daunting task for
organizations, and underscores the need for simple, adaptable data
center infrastructure that delivers optimized performance," said
Vladimir Ester, chief technology
officer and cofounder of ClusterPower. "Cisco and NVIDIA are
bringing together the innovations to help enterprises support
demand for more computing power in the data center and navigate the
transitions for AI with secure and observable infrastructure."
"World Wide Technology (WWT) is excited to see NVIDIA and Cisco
combining resources to bring proven Ethernet-based AI solutions to
market. Ethernet has the broadest scale in our client base, and
this partnership and resulting offers will accelerate our ability
to deliver AI solutions to our clients. Both Cisco and NVIDIA are
already a significant part of WWT's AI Proving Ground lab where we
help clients select and operationalize AI architectures so they can
more quickly turn their data into insights and action."
"As enterprises look to transform their businesses with AI, they
must understand the unique demands that AI workloads place on data
center infrastructure," said Vijay
Bhagavath, Vice President, Cloud & Data Center Networks
at IDC Research. "The Cisco and NVIDIA partnership brings together
two trusted brands with complementary technologies to enable
customers to realize the full potential of AI with a wide range of
performance-optimized Ethernet-based infrastructure. "
Availability: 2Q Calendar Year; Solutions sold
through Cisco Channel partners
About NVIDIA
Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a
pioneer in accelerated computing. The company's invention of the
GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined
computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling
industrial digitalization across markets. NVIDIA is now a
full-stack computing infrastructure company with data-center-scale
offerings that are reshaping industry. More information at
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that
securely connects everything to make anything possible. Our purpose
is to power an inclusive future for all by helping our customers
reimagine their applications, power hybrid work, secure their
enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their
sustainability goals. Discover more on The Newsroom and follow
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