Cisco Expands Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA for Rack-Scale Era

News Summary

• Cisco, partnering with Supermicro, adds rack-scale AI computing solutions to its portfolio, delivering end-to-end infrastructure to run massive AI workloads, reduce deployment risk, and help customers run workloads with greater efficiency and control over data.
• With the addition of high-density server systems, Cisco extends its industry-leading Secure AI Factory architecture to any AI use case, from trillion parameter training models to edge inferencing.
• The full-stack architecture will address the quickly growing and evolving demands of neocloud and sovereign cloud customers with an NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) compliant architecture featuring Cisco AI networking systems, backed by industry-leading support and services.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug 25, 2026 – AI models keep evolving, placing new performance demands on networks. Power and cooling dictate where infrastructure can be built. Customers are demanding AI capabilities that keep their data secure and private. The next era of AI infrastructure can’t just deliver raw compute; it must harness that compute through validated, full-stack architectures customers can deploy quickly, run efficiently, and secure with confidence. Today, Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) is expanding the Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA through a partnership with Supermicro, bringing its leadership in high-density, liquid and air-cooled compute to Cisco’s industry-leading full-stack, secure AI infrastructure architecture…