Cisco is using its Nvidia partnership in collaboration with VAST Data to offer customers a turnkey AI infrastructure package including compute, network, storage and data. The combined package will offer customers a blueprint for building pre-integrated AI infrastructure to support AI workload data fabrics as well as large-scale training and inference, according to the vendors.
The new offering is built around Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia, which brings together Cisco security and networking technology, Nvidia DPUs, and storage options. The joint Cisco-Nvidia AI infrastructure integrates Cisco’s Hypershield and AI Defense packages to help protect the development, deployment, and use of AI models and applications. Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs and SuperNICs are also featured. SuperNICs are Nvidia’s new class of network accelerators designed to supercharge hyperscale AI workloads in Ethernet-based clouds. The Nvidia AI Enterprise software platform, which features pretrained models and development tools for production-ready AI, is also part of the Secure AI Factory package.
For the new collaboration, VAST brings its core product, InsightEngine, to provide a data intelligence layer that plugs directly into Cisco Secure AI Factory. InsightEngine scans, organizes, and builds a catalog of everything stored in the VAST data platform, such as files, objects, tables. Customers can search and query that data instantly, according to VAST.