Stack Automation by Quali Goes GA as a Cisco Exclusive, Promising Rack to Application in Hours

Stack Automation by Quali Goes GA as a Cisco Exclusive, Promising Rack to Application in Hours

By byBrian Beeler
Publication Date: 2026-08-19 16:57:00

Stack Automation by Quali, the infrastructure automation platform co-developed with Cisco and sold exclusively through Cisco, has reached general availability. The pitch aims at the gap between buying AI infrastructure and using it: deployments that traditionally consume six to twelve weeks of manual assembly should, the companies say, come up in hours, with Cisco Validated Designs baked in as deployable blueprints rather than PDF homework assignments.

The platform pairs Quali’s automation and agentic AI engine with Cisco Validated Designs and Cisco security practices, and it integrates with Cisco Intersight and Cisco Nexus Dashboard to cover Day 0 and Day 1 planning through deployment. Quali also says Stack Automation will become part of Cisco Cloud Control, the unified AgenticOps operations platform Cisco introduced in June, tying the deployment engine into the same console where human operators and AI agents already work.

“Enterprise infrastructure has reached an…