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Cisco AI Ready Datacenters with Comstor
AI-driven demand is rapidly reshaping data centre requirements. Customers are scaling for high-performance workloads, while facing ongoing constraints in compute, power, and infrastructure supply. This shift is changing the partner opportunity.
Customers are prioritising early capacity planning, modernising existing environments, and investing in high-performance networking to support AI workloads. They need partners who can guide them through this transition with proven, integrated solutions.
With Cisco’s portfolio—spanning networking, compute, and unified management—partners are uniquely positioned to help customers:
Secure capacity early and align infrastructure to AI demand Modernise existing data centres for greater performance and efficiency Enable AI-ready architectures with high-performance, low-latency networking.
This guide will help you position Cisco effectively, identify opportunities, and support your customers.
of IT leaders say the urgency to deploy AI-powered technologies has increased within their companies in the past six months. (1)
Generative AI will be a massive opportunity for the channel ecosystem by 2028. (2)
Global data center TAM for workloads by 2027. (3)
(1) Source: “Cisco AI Readiness Index,” Cisco, November 2024, https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/m/en_us/solutions/ai/readiness-index/documents/cisco-global-ai-readiness-index.pdf
(2) Source: Canalys Insights, “Generative AI will be a US$158.6 billion opportunity for the channel ecosystem by 2028,” August 2023, https://www.canalys.com/insights/generative-ai-opportunity-for-the-channel-ecosystem
(3) Source: EDC and Cisco internal research
Discover the expanded cloud operating model
To thrive in today’s complex IT environment, organisations can benefit from the simplicity and agility made possible through an expanded cloud operating model.
Many organisations have been looking to the cloud for greater business agility and improved user experience.
Cisco helps transform data centers to power AI workloads anywhere. Only Cisco unifies networking, compute, security, and observability to deliver AI-ready data centers. With Cisco, organizations can accelerate AI initiatives without compromise. We help maximize agility with faster time to value at massive scale, while building digital resilience to keep data centers securely up and running.
The pace of AI innovation is staggering: AI challenges you to deploy new technology faster than ever before.
