News Summary:
- The new solution will combine Cisco and NVIDIA innovation to
simplify the deployment of generative AI applications, providing IT
visibility and analytics across the entire AI infrastructure
stack.
- Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI clusters make it easy for enterprise
customers to build infrastructure to run generative AI models and
inference applications without deep IT knowledge and skills.
- Exclusive cloud management capabilities help customers easily
deploy, manage and monitor data centers, colocation facilities and
edge sites.
LAS
VEGAS, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CISCO
LIVE -- Today Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader in security and
networking, announced a breakthrough AI cluster solution with
NVIDIA for the data center that transforms how customers build,
manage and optimize infrastructure and software.
Delivering on the Cisco Networking Cloud vision to simplify
networking, Cisco is bringing to market a new enterprise-ready,
end-to-end infrastructure solution to scale generative AI
workloads. The Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI cluster solution combines
Cisco AI-native networking with NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI
software, and a robust VAST data store. It is designed to enable
customers to focus on AI-driven innovation and new revenue
opportunities rather than IT management.
According to Cisco's recent Global Networking Trends
Report in the next two years, 60% of IT leaders and
professionals expect to deploy AI-enabled predictive network
automation across all domains to better manage NetOps1.
Additionally, 75% plan to deploy tools that offer end-to-end
visibility via a single console into different network domains
including campus and branch, WAN, data center, internet, public
clouds and industrial networks.
"While the promise of AI is clear, the path forward for
many just starting out is not. Customers often face economic and
operational challenges to get an AI stack up and running," said
Jonathan Davidson, Executive Vice
President and General Manager, Cisco Networking. "Cisco is
committed to making the deployment and operation of AI
infrastructure simpler. Together with NVIDIA, we are delivering a
simple-to-deploy, cloud-operated AI-stack solution for on-premises
deployments that builds on our Cisco Networking Cloud platform
vision for automation and simplicity."
"Generative AI requires purpose-built infrastructure and
software that enables enterprises to securely turn their data into
fuel for business transformation," said Kevin Deierling, Senior Vice President of
Networking at NVIDIA. "NVIDIA and Cisco are providing an
enterprise-ready AI platform and control plane to simplify
deployment of the accelerated computing, networking and software
needed for generative AI workloads."
At Cisco Live, the company is demonstrating how it is committed
to helping its customers quickly deploy AI infrastructure. Cisco is
also putting the right tools in the hands of its customers to build
intuitive AI-native networks, anticipate failures and quickly
diagnose and remediate problems.
How Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI Cluster Works
The
on-premises solution features a single place to design, deploy,
monitor and assure the AI pods and data center workloads. It guides
users from design, to validated deployment, to monitoring and
assurance for enterprise-ready AI infrastructure. With its cloud
management capabilities, customers can easily deploy and manage
large scale fabrics across data centers, colocation
facilities and edge sites.
The Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI cluster solution offers
automated, cloud-managed operations across a unified compute and
networking fabric combining Cisco's Ethernet switching expertise
founded on Cisco Silicon One, integrated with NVIDIA's accelerated
computing and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, and VAST's data
storage platform. This will include:
- Cisco cloud management capabilities to simplify IT operations
across all phases of the workflow.
- Cisco Nexus 6000 series switches for spine and leaf that
deliver 400G and 800G Ethernet fabric performance.
- Cisco Optics family of QSFP-DD modules to offer customer choice
and deliver super high densities.
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to streamline the development and
deployment of production-grade generative AI workloads
- NVIDIA NIM inference microservices that accelerate the
deployment of foundation models while ensuring data security, and
are available with NVIDIA AI Enterprise
- NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs starting with the NVIDIA H200 NVL,
designed from the ground up to supercharge generative AI workloads
with game-changing performance and memory capabilities.
- NVIDIA BlueField-3 data processing unit DPU processor and
BlueField-3 SuperNIC for accelerating AI compute networking, data
access and security workloads.
- Enterprise reference design for AI built on NVIDIA MGX, a
modular and flexible server architecture.
- The VAST Data Platform, which offers unified storage, database
and a data-driven function engine built for AI.
Availability
Select customers may have early trial
access to this AI solution in Q4 of CY 2024, with general
availability expected shortly thereafter.
Introducing AI Skills for Partners and IT Pros
Cisco Learning and Certifications has introduced a new CCDE AI
Infrastructure certification with training available now on Cisco
U. It provides expert-level Network Engineers and Design Network
Engineers with the expertise to translate AI workload business
requirements into technical and sustainable best practices for
infrastructure design. Cisco has also launched the first stage of
its AI partner specializations from Cisco Black Belt. These
learning journeys equip Cisco partners with the product knowledge
needed to help them build AI practices and accelerate their
customer deployments.
Supporting Comments
"The Nexus HyperFabric AI cluster solution is competitively
differentiated and leverages Cisco's overall portfolio strength,
new cloud-managed subscriptions model, and the Cisco-NVIDIA
partnership, among other aspects, for capturing wallet share in
Enterprise AI Datacenter Switching and Software Ops solutions."
- Vijay Bhagavath, Research Vice
President, IDC
"Generative AI models demand lightning-fast access to vast
amounts of data, a feat only achieved through unprecedented
computing power and high-performance networking infrastructure.
With the new Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI cluster solution, we are
helping enterprises build AI data centers with NVIDIA accelerated
computing and AI software and Cisco networking, and the VAST Data
Platform, providing end-to-end visibility of compute, networking,
storage and data management so organizations can seamlessly build
and scale their AI operations."
- Renen Hallak, CEO and
co-founder of VAST Data
"Cisco compute and networking solutions are integral to powering
PTC's R&D, data center performance, connectivity, and our
Servigistics software to deliver the AI-powered service supply
chain capabilities for our customers across industries, helping
them better estimate, predict, optimize, and improve service supply
chain performance. Cisco's new AI infrastructure solution with
NVIDIA opens more possibilities for PTC to scale our data center
infrastructure easily and efficiently, enhance operations and
performance, and help meet our sustainability goals."
- Michael Blake, VP of
Information Technology at PTC.
"Ethernet has the broadest scale in our client base, and the
Cisco NVIDIA 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."
- Neil Anderson, VP Cloud,
Infrastructure, and AI Solutions, WWT
Added Resources
- Executive Blog: It's Time to Take Control of Experiences and
Transform Infrastructure Operations for AI, by Jonathan Davidson
- Executive Blog: AI Takes Center Stage in the Data Center by
Kevin Wollenweber and Jeremy Foster
- Press Release: Cisco ThousandEyes Digital Experience Assurance
Radically Shifts IT Operations from Monitoring to Action
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1 Cisco Global Networking Trends Report 2024
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