AI-ready data centers

Transform data centers to power AI and traditional workloads—anywhere, securely, and at scale.

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Data centers must deliver more power, speed, and security—while balancing costs and meeting evolving business needs.

Urgency to move fast

Business pressure to support Al initiatives is intense. It requires scalable infrastructure that holds up to processing, throughput, and latency demands.

Intensifying threat landscape

Protecting a highly distributed environment from sophisticated threats needs a new approach—with security fused into the data center fabric.

Pressure to control costs

It’s easy to underestimate the cost of AI initiatives. Managing infrastructure costs without compromising performance is essential.

Complex environments

AI must be closer to the data. This requires infrastructure that spans from core to edge—plus visibility and resilience across a complex environment.

Accelerate AI initiatives without compromise

With Cisco, you can move fast and stay steady. We help you maximize agility while building digital resilience.

How Cisco helps

Whether you need to modernize your existing data center infrastructure or need to power new, massive AI workloads, Cisco can help.

The Cisco difference

As a leader in networking, Cisco brings expertise in powering AI at scale for the most demanding environments, including the world's largest hyperscalers.

Cisco embeds security directly into network infrastructure, delivering enhanced security and operational efficiency—with less hardware to manage.

With pre-validated designs and a broad partner ecosystem, Cisco removes the complexity and guesswork of designing and deploying data center technology.

Cisco designs and builds products with a focus on efficiency and sustainability, with industry recognition across several products, including UCS X-Series.

Workday deploys network infrastructure for data centers in less than a day

Workday leveled up its IT game by building five globally connected data centers—boosting network capacity, scalability, and automation with cutting-edge solutions. They slashed deployment time by 83%, establishing a highly automated network architecture and seamless workload portability across regions, data centers, and clouds.


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