Thought Leadership
Sep 4, 2025

Building the Secure AI Factory: Cisco, NVIDIA, and VAST Rewire the Enterprise Datacenter

Building the Secure AI Factory

Authored by

Nicole Hemsoth Prickett, Head of Industry Relations

This blog post was written in 2025 and reflects product capabilities at that time. Some information may be outdated.

On this episode, Nicole sits down with Danny McGinniss, VP of Product Management for Cisco Compute, Jacob Liberman, Director of Enterprise Product at NVIDIA, and John Mao, VP of Business Development and Alliances at VAST, to pull apart what it really means when three of the biggest forces in infrastructure line up behind the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, an architecture that brings together Cisco’s compute and networking, NVIDIA AI Data Platform, and VAST Insight Engine.

The episode walks through the reimagining the datacenter as an AI factory where security, storage, speed, and data gravity collide to make enterprise AI real.

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