{"id":217308,"date":"2026-02-25T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/accelerating-agent-intelligence-cisco-secure-ai-factory-expands-with-nvidia-and-vast\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:10:09","slug":"accelerating-agent-intelligence-cisco-secure-ai-factory-expands-with-nvidia-and-vast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/accelerating-agent-intelligence-cisco-secure-ai-factory-expands-with-nvidia-and-vast\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating agent intelligence: Cisco Secure AI Factory expands with NVIDIA and VAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cisco.com\/datacenter\/accelerating-agent-intelligence-cisco-secure-ai-factory-expands-with-nvidia-and-vast\">Accelerating agent intelligence: Cisco Secure AI Factory expands with NVIDIA and VAST<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cisco.com\/datacenter\/accelerating-agent-intelligence-cisco-secure-ai-factory-expands-with-nvidia-and-vast\">https:\/\/blogs.cisco.com\/datacenter\/accelerating-agent-intelligence-cisco-secure-ai-factory-expands-with-nvidia-and-vast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-25 11:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"blogs.cisco.com\">blogs.cisco.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. The conversation is shifting from model innovation to operational reality. Organizations are discovering that building AI models is often the easiest part of the journey. Running those models reliably, securely, and at scale across enterprise environments is where complexity emerges.<\/p>\n<p>Many AI initiatives slow down, not because teams lack GPUs, data, or talent, but because there is no unified operating pattern that safely connects all of those elements into production. AI systems are not single applications. They are distributed ecosystems of data pipelines, inference services, orchestration layers, and increasingly, autonomous agents interacting with enterprise systems in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA is built around a simple but transformative idea. AI must be treated as an end-to-end system. Performance, data readiness, cloud-native operations, and security cannot be designed separately. They must be engineered together from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>At VAST Forward 2026, we are demonstrating how that principle translates into a working secure AI data platform. This is not a future concept or hypothetical architecture. It is a real, deployable reference implementation built using NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure and software, VAST data services, Cisco infrastructure, the Isovalent Enterprise Platform based on Cilium and Tetragon, and Cisco AI Defense. It reflects a repeatable way to operationalize AI today while continuing to evolve toward deeper integration over time.<\/p>\n<h2>The new reality of enterprise AI<\/h2>\n<p>The rise of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agent-driven applications is fundamentally reshaping how organizations interact with their data. AI systems are no longer isolated workloads. They continuously retrieve information, exchange context between services, and execute automated actions across business environments.<\/p>\n<p>This transformation introduces a new type of operational challenge&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cisco.com\/datacenter\/accelerating-agent-intelligence-cisco-secure-ai-factory-expands-with-nvidia-and-vast\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accelerating agent intelligence: Cisco Secure AI Factory expands with NVIDIA and VAST https:\/\/blogs.cisco.com\/datacenter\/accelerating-agent-intelligence-cisco-secure-ai-factory-expands-with-nvidia-and-vast Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.cisco.com\/gcs\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2026\/02\/vast-blog-feature.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-217308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217310,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217308\/revisions\/217310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}