How Cisco Built an Enterprise AI Factory: Scaling Economics, Performance, and Security

Every technology leader faces the enterprise AI paradox: as AI adoption accelerates, organizations run headfirst into external power, cost, and security constraints. Cisco IT proved that infrastructure is the ultimate control point. Keep reading and watch the short video below, or tune into the full podcast discussion, to learn how we built a full-stack, multi-tenant AI factory—tripling GPU utilization and delivering mission-critical reliability for 90,000 employees. Like most enterprises, Cisco is on an ongoing AI journey. In the beginning, our mission was simple: get AI capabilities into the hands of teams so they could prove value quickly for specific use cases. We started with dedicated, project-specific AI infrastructure clusters for individual engineering and product teams. This approach was sufficient for experimental prototypes, but then we reached…