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SVP and GM, Splunk, a Cisco company. “Through the integration, Snowflake and and will help them stay ahead in the AI era
“Together with the Snowflake integration, Splunk will be able to more effectively where data is paramount.” With Splunk
we’re creating a more open ecosystem to connect data and break down silos for Federated Search for Snowflake, users will
help organizations use data to make faster our joint customers. This makes it easier use the Splunk interface to perform queries
decisions, accelerate innovation, and deliver for organizations to harness business and on Snowflake data and seamlessly join it
more trusted customer experiences.” “Our operational data, enabling insights to flow with data already in Splunk. This enables
integration with Splunk extends Snowflake to where they are needed most to power teams to set business context for critical
as a trusted platform for unifying and data insights and AI innovation at scale. ITOps, SecOps, and engineering use cases,
simplifying data access at scale,” said This integration will give enterprises the eliminating data silos and accelerating
Carl Perry, Head of Analytics, Snowflake. power to drive faster data-driven decisions issue detection, triage, and resolution.

Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA Unlocks Enterprise Data for Agentic AI

Cisco has unveiled a solution for building AI accelerated computing and AI software “The next wave of agentic AI will be fueled
infrastructure designed to support workload ensures low-latency model interaction, by enterprise data, enabling agents to tap
data fabrics, further enabling enterprises and Cisco’s high-performance ethernet into business knowledge during inference
to securely use their data for agentic AI at networking connects compute and data for precise, up-to-date insights,” said Justin
enterprise-scale. With this new solution, seamlessly. This unified solution enables Boitano, vice president, Enterprise AI at
the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA AI agents to operate with near-real-time NVIDIA. “Bringing together Cisco Secure AI
expands to new use cases, including business insights, backed by the security, Factory with NVIDIA and VASTInsightEngine
the acceleration of retrieval-augmented governance and flexibility of the Cisco creates an integrated platform for running
generation (RAG) pipelines with faster data Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA architecture. powerful AI agents at scale.” “By integrating
extraction and retrieval. This new capability Through this architecture, customers can the VAST Data InsightEngine into the Cisco
ensures AI agents have instant, secure gain unique visibility into their environments Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, we’re giving
access to the data they need, when they with Splunk, and apply safety and security enterprises the first integrated design for
need it. Cisco AI PODs, the AI Infrastructure guardrails to every token using Cisco AI RAG acceleration at scale," said John Mao,
building blocks of the Secure AI Factory, Defense. “Agentic AI has the potential vice president of strategic alliances at
are now available with VAST InsightEngine, to unlock the value of AI for enterprises VAST Data. "This collaboration with Cisco
a core capability of VAST Data AI OS. around the world. Moving beyond chatbots and NVIDIA represents a major milestone
These AI PODs deliver a fully integrated to agents that can help solve true business in the evolution of enterprise AI. The
solution using the NVIDIA AI Data Platform challenges is revolutionary, but only if integration of the VAST InsightEngine into
reference design to transform raw data into enterprises can effectively leverage the the Secure AI Factory architecture sets the
AI-ready datasets. Within the AI PODs, the right data at the right times. Cisco, NVIDIA stage for a new era where intelligent agents
Cisco UCS server portfolio with NVIDIA RTX and VAST are working together to give can operate securely, collaboratively,
PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs customers a simple path to unlocking the and at unprecedented scale.” Agentic
together provide exceptional performance value of their data,” said Jeremy Foster, AI workloads place unique demands
for next-generation AI applications. RTX senior vice president and general manager, on IT infrastructure. Enterprises across
PRO Servers from Cisco are some of Cisco Compute. “We are designing the industries are looking to deploy AI agents
the first systems to deliver the NVIDIA AI architecture for how the enterprise will that can communicate with knowledge
Data Platform reference design. NVIDIA build the next generation of AI factories.” workers and other AI agents to solve
complex challenges. However, this requires
support for workload data fabrics that
remove data bottlenecks and lower latency,
so agents have access to the right data,
while providing the security and governance
necessary to ensure organizations stay
safe. The new capabilities offer customers
a secure AI infrastructure solution for fast
data extraction and retrieval to unlock
agentic AI use cases. VAST Data will be the
first vendor to integrate with Cisco AI PODs
to offer enterprise customers an NVIDIA AI
Data Platform reference design. Customers
can now experience:

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