Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) this week 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.”
Cisco, with its industry-leading expertise in Ethernet networking and extensive partner ecosystem, together with NVIDIA, the inventor of the GPU that has fueled the AI boom, say they share a vision and commitment to help customers navigate the transitions for AI with highly secure Ethernet-based infrastructure.
“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.”
Cisco and NVIDIA have of course 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.
Vijay Bhagavath, vice president of Cloud & Data Center Networks at IDC Research was quoted as saying “As enterprises look to transform their businesses with AI, they must understand the unique demands that AI workloads place on data center infrastructure. 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.”