Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA Makes AI Easier to Deploy and Secure, Anywhere Organizations Need It

Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA Makes AI Easier to Deploy and Secure, Anywhere Organizations Need It

By PR Newswire
Publication Date: 2026-03-16 20:30:00

Expanded architecture lets businesses run AI at scale, from central data centers to the factory floor, without sacrificing performance or security

NEWS SUMMARY:

  • Cisco expands its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to work not just in large data centers, but at local edge sites where real-time decisions can’t wait, from hospitals and warehouses to moving vehicles.

  • Cisco is the premier partner to deliver partner-developed systems featuring NVIDIA Spectrum-X switch silicon paired with a Cisco operating system, providing customers the flexibility of leveraging both NVIDIA Cloud Partner-compliant reference architectures and Cisco Silicon One-based architectures.

  • Cisco adds deeper security capabilities to its reference architecture by extending Hybrid Mesh Firewall policy enforcement to NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and integrating Cisco AI Defense to secure multi-agent systems.

  • Cisco AI Defense will support and secure NVIDIA’s new open agent development platform, OpenShell, adding…