As AI moves from predictive analytics to real-time autonomous decision-making, enterprises face a critical challenge: scaling AI securely and efficiently. This episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast explores key takeaways from NVIDIA GTC, the evolving Cisco-NVIDIA partnership and the foundational role AI infrastructure plays in unlocking enterprise-scale AI. Featuring WWT VP of Networking and AI Solutions Neil Anderson, NVIDIA SVP of Networking Kevin Deierling and Cisco SVP of Networking Kevin Wollenweber, the episode covers insights into networking, security, and compute innovations, and how Cisco, NVIDIA and WWT are shaping the future of AI-powered businesses.

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In this technology demonstration, we will showcase the deployment of an AI workload using Cisco Intersight automation on a single UCS X-Series blade, leveraging a neighboring X440p (X-Fabric) with an NVIDIA A40 GPU. This demo will highlight the powerful capabilities of both Cisco Intersight and the Cisco AI Toolkit, which includes tools for AI model deployment, system monitoring, and resource management. By utilizing Miniconda for environment management, CUDA for GPU acceleration, and various large language models like Vicuna and Meta OPT, we will feed data into a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) model.

Given the challenges of today's threat landscape, nothing less than a radical rethinking of security will do. Cisco Hypershield is it.

WWT's Matt Halcomb walks us through the installation of the Cisco FlashStack AI environment in the AI Proving Ground. After the infrastructure is installed, Matt shows us the software component integration. We're excited to continue to build new environments with our partners.

Cisco AI Assistant for Security cuts through the clutter to quickly solve the challenge of setting and maintaining complex policies and rules. Using Cisco's AI administrators can save time, improve operational efficiency, and reduce complexity.

As AI hype continues, the task of implementing and scaling AI initiatives is becoming increasingly complex and daunting. In this executive-led conversation between WWT's Neil Anderson and Cisco Senior Vice President of Compute, Jeremy Foster, learn about how Cisco's AI-ready infrastructure can help you accelerate the introduction of AI into all aspects of your organization. Jeremy and Neil talk about the growing partnership between Cisco, NVIDIA and WWT; new innovations coming out of Cisco like Cisco Nexus HyperFabric; and how you can make sense of the fast-moving AI landscape to make informed decisions that will drive outcomes for your business.

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