At the recent Cisco Partner Summit, Cisco unveiled its latest breakthrough in AI-powered data center solutions: Cisco AI Pods, combining compute, networking, storage, AI tools, and management to provide simple to deploy and highly scalable infrastructure designed specifically for artificial intelligence workloads. This announcement marks a pivotal step in transforming how businesses deploy and manage artificial intelligence (AI) workloads at scale. Cisco's AI Pods are designed to support pre-trained inference workloads and/or workloads supplemented by domain-specific knowledge derived through Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). By scaling from small edge use cases to the largest enterprise workloads. Cisco AI Pods provide customers with easy-to-deploy AI infrastructure that scales out as requirements grow With AI playing an increasingly crucial role in modern business operations, Cisco’s AI Pods promise to be a game-changer in data center management, offering a highly automated, efficient, and future-proof platform.
Data Center | converged/hyperconverged
IE has been working with a customer with a large, distributed data center. They requested our services to help address the challenge they faced of building a private cloud solution with automated capabilities for dynamic expansion. The goal was to create a secure environment with the flexibility of a public cloud but that operates within the confines of a government setting, where cloud usage is restricted.
In today's ever-evolving IT landscape, building and maintaining a modern data center demands a more nuanced approach than ever before. With more organizations considering cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud environments, you need a solution that offers flexibility, scalability, and agility to stay ahead of cyberthreats and data compliance obligations. We’re showcasing Cisco Intersight, a cloud-based management and automation platform, as a powerful tool for technical professionals seeking to optimize their data center and cloud infrastructure.
Data Protection | Cybersecurity
A zero-day critical security vulnerability affecting the Java logging library Apache Log4j service was first discovered on December 9th. This vulnerability can allow remote attackers to perform unauthenticated remote code execution and access to Apache web server, which are widely deployed and used in many products. Security researchers have observed hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit this vulnerability since it was discovered. As such, organizations should take all measures necessary to mitigate this threat.
Collaboration | Customer Experience | Managed IT Services
The transition of applications to software as a service (SaaS) delivery models has benefitted organizations with distributed and mobile workforces while reducing infrastructure and simplifying management. Despite these benefits, some organizations have struggled to realize value from their SaaS investments in a time-effective manner. So, what’s the secret to better adoption? It’s simple: Adoption Services.
