NVIDIA Partnership · 8 min read
How Cisco customers can operationalize their NVIDIA investment with Katonic's AI Factory platform.
Mohan K
VP, Partner Sales & GTM
GPU utilization
why the CFO is asking questions
The fix:
Cisco + NVIDIA + Katonic
Most "NVIDIA partnerships" mean one thing: GPUs in a data center. This is about something different.
Cisco customers are investing heavily in NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure. The hardware is there. The GPUs are running. But here's what happens next:
The data science team experiments in Jupyter notebooks. IT waits for requirements. Security asks about governance. Months pass. The CFO starts asking why GPU utilization is at 15%.
The problem isn't the hardware. It's the gap between infrastructure and production AI.
Cisco customers investing in NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure are building a powerful foundation for enterprise-scale AI. With compute now solved, the next frontier is unlocking full business value, moving from raw performance to AI outcomes.
The greatest opportunity lies in accelerating the next layer of enterprise AI maturity:
Together, these layers transform high-performance compute into high-impact AI, helping Cisco customers move from experimentation to trusted, scalable, and compliant production.
Here's what most people miss: NVIDIA has built an entire enterprise AI software stack. It's not just hardware anymore.
Optimized inference microservices. Production-grade latency. One-click deployment.
250+ pre-trained enterprise models ready for deployment and customization.
Data preparation pipelines. Clean and structure enterprise data for training.
Fine-tune foundation models on domain-specific data. Banking, healthcare, legal.
Safety controls and policy enforcement. Programmable guardrails for every AI output.
Full observability for AI agents. Trace every decision. Debug production issues.
This is enterprise-grade AI infrastructure. The problem?
Most organizations can't operationalize it. They don't have the platform team to integrate NIM. They don't have the security expertise to implement Guardrails correctly. They don't have the MLOps maturity to manage model lifecycles.
The NVIDIA stack exists. Someone needs to make it accessible.
Katonic AI provides the platform layer that operationalizes the full NVIDIA stack on Cisco infrastructure. We've integrated everything - not as add-ons, but as the foundation.
Every Cisco customer running Katonic gets this. Out of the box.
This is the floor, not the ceiling. The full NVIDIA AI Enterprise stack, operationalized on Cisco infrastructure, with enterprise governance built in.
Southeast Asia's first sovereign AI platform. Partnership with ePLDT (largest telco in the Philippines) running on Dell infrastructure with NVIDIA GPUs. 8 NVIDIA technologies integrated. Serving a population of 115 million.
Time from kickoff to production: 90 days.
One of Taiwan's largest financial institutions. Complete air-gapped deployment - no internet connectivity, no cloud callbacks. Full NVIDIA stack running in a completely isolated environment.
Proof that enterprise AI can work where data cannot leave.
The value proposition is straightforward:
Cisco infrastructure + NVIDIA compute + Katonic AI platform = Complete enterprise AI solution.
Instead of buying GPUs and figuring out the rest, customers get a complete stack:
"We evaluated every major AI platform. Katonic was the only one that could run entirely on our infrastructure while meeting our compliance requirements. We were live in 3 weeks."
- CTO, Leading APAC Bank
Every Cisco customer with NVIDIA GPUs faces the same challenge: how to move from infrastructure to production AI. Katonic solves this.
For Cisco, the partnership means:
The hardware is deployed. The NVIDIA software stack exists. Katonic puts them together into a solution that actually works.
If you're a Cisco customer exploring how to get more value from your NVIDIA investment - or a Cisco team looking to complete your AI infrastructure story - let's talk.
The GPUs are there. The software stack is ready. Now it's time to operationalize.
Mohan K
VP, Partner Sales & GTM
Mohan leads Katonic's partner ecosystem, helping infrastructure partners like Cisco deliver complete AI solutions to their customers. With 22 years at HPE, IBM, and HP Inc. building partner-led GTM across Asia Pacific, he understands how to turn technology partnerships into customer outcomes.
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