--- title: Empowering enterprise AI: A unified approach by Cisco... description: Cisco and Digital Realty have formed a partnership to help enterprises scale AI from pilot to production. The joint solution combines Cisco's AI PODs,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/empowering-enterprise-ai-a-unified-approach-by-cisco-and-digital-realty-1eyy5gkzj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Empowering enterprise AI: A unified approach by Cisco and Digital Realty | daily.dev og:description: Cisco and Digital Realty have formed a partnership to help enterprises scale AI from pilot to production. The joint solution combines Cisco's AI PODs,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/empowering-enterprise-ai-a-unified-approach-by-cisco-and-digital-realty-1eyy5gkzj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1EYY5gkZJ.png og:image:alt: Empowering enterprise AI: A unified approach by Cisco and Digital Realty og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Empowering enterprise AI: A unified approach by Cisco and Digital Realty **[Cisco](https://daily.dev/sources/cisco)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cisco and Digital Realty have formed a partnership to help enterprises scale AI from pilot to production. The joint solution combines Cisco's AI PODs, programmable networking (SRv6, 8000 Series Routers), AI Defense security, and validated reference architectures with Digital Realty's global data center platform spanning 300+ facilities. Key capabilities include hyperconverged infrastructure for distributed inferencing, ServiceFabric for metro-scale interconnection, and the Digital Realty Innovation Lab (DRIL) for workload validation. The solution addresses data center densification challenges as AI workloads push rack densities from 6–8 kW to 20–50 kW, targeting geo-distributed enterprises needing consistent, high-performance AI across multiple locations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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