Enterprises today face the dual challenge of building robust infrastructure to host their AI applications while also ensuring a secure and scalable data fabric to support those AI workloads with real-time, contextual enterprise data. The answer lies in a powerful collaboration: the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, leveraging the VAST Data InsightEngine. This integration delivers a turnkey platform that simplifies and accelerates data pipelines to transform the way you turn your raw data into intelligence that delivers business value.
The Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA and VAST Insight Engine
The Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, a scalable, high-performance, and secure AI infrastructure, is a validated, full-stack design that provides a foundation for the entire AI lifecycle, from data ingestion and model training to large-scale inference. The Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA is designed to be the definitive choice for enterprises that need a security-first architecture to deploy and manage AI workloads efficiently.
Within this framework, the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design is leveraged for the continuous ingestion, embedding, and indexing of all enterprise data. The VAST InsightEngine, as part of the VAST AI Operating System (AI OS), serves as this critical AI Data Platform component. It’s the data intelligence layer that plugs directly into the Cisco Secure AI Factory, providing the mechanism for models to securely access and utilize continuously updated, highly relevant AI-ready enterprise data through RAG.
The VAST InsightEngine: The Intelligence Within
The VAST Data InsightEngine automates AI-ready data pipelines from the moment new data is ingested. It provides real-time vectorization and automated inferencing, turning raw, unstructured data into operational intelligence without complexity. It’s the engine that powers the data pipelines that fuel the Cisco Secure AI Factory. Built on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform design that leverages GPU-accelerated I/O and serverless automation to eliminate the latency and friction that have traditionally slowed AI adoption.
Built on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference architecture, VAST InsightEngine is a powerful data engine that includes NVIDIA NeMo Retriever and NVIDIA NIM microservices that connect to proprietary data for secure, enterprise-grade retrieval. These are optimized containers for AI models, and the VAST InsightEngine is designed to embed and manage them natively. This approach allows AI practitioners to easily consume these models and run their RAG pipelines directly on the VAST AI OS. The InsightEngine manages the lifecycle, deployment, and autoscaling of these models, delivering a new level of efficiency for AI applications.
A Unified Platform for Secure AI
This integrated solution is available through three distinct Cisco offerings, all part of the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA:
VAST on Cisco UCS: This foundational building block provides an infinitely scalable unified data store fully tested for compatibility through the Cisco SolutionsPlus program.
VAST on Cisco AI PODs: Delivers a simplified, pre-validated full infrastructure stack for AI and a simplified ordering experience that improves data scientists’ and developers’ productivity.
VAST InsightEngine on Cisco AI PODs: The industry's first turn-key AI Data Platform for enterprise RAG enabling NVIDIA NIMs as a Service for simplified, efficient AI workflows.
The VAST AI OS brings these components together into a single, unified AI data platform. It simplifies infrastructure complexity by converging structured, unstructured, and vector data management, enabling real-time reasoning and workflow automation at scale.
With this integrated approach, you no longer need separate data lakes or external platforms. Your data is always secure, governed, and ready for AI.
Build Your Secure AI Future
It’s time to build a secure AI factory that is both efficient and intelligent. This collaboration between Cisco, NVIDIA, and VAST Data provides a secure, scalable, and intelligent AI Data Platform that gives you the power to transform your enterprise data into a continuous source of business insights and innovation.
Join me and Cisco Senior Product Marketing Manager Nicolas Sagnes for a webinar on September 17 focused on our secure and unified AI solution and how it enables you to deploy optimized AI models with speed and confidence. Let's unlock the full potential of your enterprise data!
