Cisco Expands Secure AI Factory with Nvidia and VAST Data for Enterprise RAG and Agentic AI

Summary

Cisco has announced an expansion of its Secure AI Factory with Nvidia, adding integration with VAST Data's InsightEngine to accelerate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and support agentic AI at enterprise scale. The new infrastructure capabilities are designed to enable faster and more secure data access for AI agents, addressing a key bottleneck in enterprise AI deployments. John Mao, vice president of strategic alliances at VAST Data, highlighted that the integration provides en