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AI Infrastructure Platform Launch

CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. · 2026-10-21 · Importance 31 · Surprise 42

Cisco and Everpure jointly developed the Cisco AI POD with FlashStack for enterprise AI factories. The Cisco Validated Design combines Cisco UCS compute, NVIDIA accelerated compute, Cisco Nexus networking, Everpure FlashBlade//S500 storage, Portworx and Red Hat OpenShift/OpenShift AI. The platform is intended to move enterprise customers from AI pilots into production inference, addressing capacity contention, model versioning, multi-GPU serving and failure recovery.