Cisco outlined its vision for the AI-ready data center, introducing a "factory" approach to AI infrastructure designed to help enterprises in the UAE move from pilots to large-scale AI production more quickly, securely, and efficiently.
For decades, enterprises have thought about their data centers in terms of workloads. Applications came in, resources were provisioned, and IT leaders focused on making those workloads run as efficiently as possible.
AI changes that equation. Training and inference aren't just workloads, they're production pipelines. They consume vast amounts of data, create unpredictable demands on infrastructure, and require coordination across compute, networking, and security. The challenge is compounded by data that's distributed across many sources-on-premises and in the cloud.
