AI-Ready Data Centers

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

Reimagine your data center for the AI era

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

Move fast and stay steady. We help you maximize agility while building digital resilience.

Power AI anywhere with fast time to value

Deploy faster with pre-validated, integrated systems that support your infrastructure needs at scale—anywhere you need it.

Enforce security consistently everywhere

Protect every layer—from infrastructure to applications, workloads, and AI models—with distributed enforcement points.

Strengthen digital resilience with observability

See across your entire IT environment—from core to edge to cloud—to keep all systems securely up and running.

Optimize economics, efficiency, and sustainability

Transform your operations and achieve cost and energy efficiencies while consolidating your footprint.

How Cisco helps

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

Robust, flexible infrastructure

Cisco delivers the networking, silicon, and compute to power all workloads. Customize with individual components or full-stack systems to meet your specific needs.

Security from ground to cloud

With Cisco, you can build integrated, layered defenses from data centers to multicloud environments—with distributed enforcement points protecting every layer of the stack.

Seamless operations and observability

With Cisco, you can unify management of traditional and AI workloads. With unified visibility and insights across all environments, we help remove silos and assure end-to-end connectivity.

The Cisco difference

Expertise in powering AI

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

Security infused into the data center fabric

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

Extensive validated designs

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

Built for performance and efficiency

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.