AI Factories: Built Or Broken? With Cisco's Nicholas Sagnes AI Proving Ground Podcast: Exploring Artificial Intelligence & Enterprise AI With World Wide Technology podcast

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AI Factories: Built or Broken? With Cisco's Nicholas Sagnes

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Cisco's Nicolas Sagnes and World Wide Technology's Bob Watson outline why the next generation of AI infrastructure must be engineered as a secure, observable, full-stack system — and why enterprises relying on pilots risk falling behind.

The AI Proving Ground Podcast leverages the deep AI technical and business expertise from within World Wide Technology's one-of-a-kind AI Proving Ground, which provides unrivaled access to the world's leading AI technologies. This unique lab environment accelerates your ability to learn about, test, train and implement AI solutions.

Learn more about WWT's AI Proving Ground.

The AI Proving Ground is a composable lab environment that features the latest high-performance infrastructure and reference architectures from the world's leading AI companies, such as NVIDIA, Cisco, Dell, F5, AMD, Intel and others.

Developed within our Advanced Technology Center (ATC), this one-of-a-kind lab environment empowers IT teams to evaluate and test AI infrastructure, software and solutions for efficacy, scalability and flexibility — all under one roof. The AI Proving Ground provides visibility into data flows across the entire development pipeline, enabling more informed decision-making while safeguarding production environments.

Chapters

1. AI Factory: The Real Meaning (00:00:00)

2. Cisco’s Full-Stack Power Move (00:02:19)

3. Inside the AI Factory Blueprint (00:05:17)

4. Security Built In (Not After) (00:08:43)

5. DPUs, Hardware & Hidden Defense (00:13:48)

6. The Network Bottleneck No One Sees (00:17:39)

7. AI Pods: Blueprint to Reality (00:20:09)

8. Future-Proofing in Fast-Forward (00:24:20)

9. Observability And Splunk’s Role (00:27:36)

10. Pilot vs. Production: Rent or Build? (00:31:19)

11. Is Your Org AI-Ready for 2026? (00:34:09)

12. Meeting Customers Where They Are (00:38:05)

13. Final Takeaways (00:43:40)

54 episodes