Intel and Cisco: Optimized Performance That Scales
Network and data infrastructure are breaking free from their traditional silos to unify your business. From the data center to the network—and out to the edge—Intel provides the foundation for end-to-end optimization, powering Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) servers, Cisco® Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix, and breakthrough IoT solutions.
Intel + Cisco – The Power of Partnership
How two decades of collaboration is delivering business outcomes for enterprise end customers spanning all verticals and use cases.
Unleash AI Capabilities and Bring to Life Scalable Solutions
Cisco UCS®, powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, delivers compelling solutions for the AI landscape (traditional and Generative AI).
Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System
The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) X-Series Modular System, powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, is engineered to simplify your data center environment. By placing IT at the center of innovation you can power apps and data from anywhere at any time.
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Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix aims to accelerate infrastructure and application delivery anywhere through best-in-class cloud operations, unparalleled flexibility, and industry-leading customer support and resiliency.
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Intel® Technologies for Optimized Performance
Meet the state-of-the-art Intel® technologies behind today’s most innovative Cisco solutions.
Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
Optimizing performance for both bare metal UCS and hyperconverged solutions depends on hardware and software optimized to perform together. For Cisco* HyperFlex, Cisco incorporated unique features of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, including Intel® Volume Management Device (Intel® VMD), to enhance system reliability, availability, and serviceability.
Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series
Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series is a general-purpose data center graphics processor optimized for media stream density and quality, with server-class reliability, availability, and scalability. It can be used separately or in combination with Intel® Xeon® Processors providing a flexible, open media solution to meet today’s changing and challenging media delivery needs.
Intel® Accelerator Engines
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors feature the broadest and widest set of built-in accelerator engines for today’s most demanding workloads. Whether on-prem, in the cloud or at the edge, Intel® Accelerator Engines can help take your business to new heights, increasing application performance, reducing costs, and improving power efficiency.
Discover how to accelerate performance through Intel® Accelerator Engines
Collaboration for Industry Solutions
Intel® technologies have been foundational to Cisco’s edge and industry solutions. From real-time edge intelligence that shares scheduling information with transit passengers and operators to support for live events with Cisco Connected Stadium, these solutions are designed for easy deployment and tangible results.
Retail
Manual stocking and inventory replenishment have always been time-consuming, error-prone processes — until now. Using Cisco* HyperFlex Edge and the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit, Vispera created a solution capable of digitizing store inventory with better recognition accuracy.
Learn how Intel and Cisco power smarter inventory management
Smart Buildings
To create the first all-digital hotel experience, The Sinclair used experience analytics powered by Cisco and Intel® technologies to drive smarter, more-efficient building operations. Result: improved guest experience, from smart heating and cooling to order-anywhere dining services.
Healthcare
Cisco® Digital Network Architecture (Cisco DNA) for Healthcare, featuring Intel® Xeon® processors, connects everything from medical devices to clinicians to patients. This streamlines collaboration and operations, all while helping keep patient data and medical devices in compliance.
Manufacturing
From predictive maintenance to network access control, Cisco Connected Factory provides a breadth of plant infrastructure capabilities that leverage Intel® technologies to make a converged plant-to-business network possible.
Transportation
Cisco and Intel are working together to build the future of transportation. Striving to improve safety, operational efficiency, security, and mobility across various platforms of transportation.
Private 5G
A private 5G service that simplifies both 5G and IoT operations. Cisco and Intel Collaborate to Drive Private 5G Innovation and Global IoT Adoption.
Learn about the use cases and architectures that are making a difference in your industry through the Cisco Portfolio Explorer.
Customer Success Stories
Read more about how Cisco customers have changed their businesses by using Cisco and Intel® technologies.
Network Rail
Cisco has formed a strong partnership with Network Rail Telecom to transform the United Kingdom’s railway network. Industry leaders collaborate to deliver better passenger experience, enhanced safety and security, improved performance, and operational resilience.
WaitTime
Intel, WaitTime and Cisco have collaborated to deliver an artificial intelligence (AI) solution that provides real-time capacity, crowd density and shopper experience insights to Mall of America. Using the data, Mall of America can make informed business decisions and improve shopper experiences, while maintaining the privacy of individual visitors.
Our Partnership at Work: Port of Rotterdam
Watch the video to learn how Cisco and Intel, together with Esri and We Are 42, are helping Port of Rotterdam become a more efficient, sustainable, and safer port. Through the use of technologies such as 5G connectivity, real-time digital twins, and Cisco’s OpenRoaming solution, we are making smart ports and maritime a reality today.
Executive Corner News
Today’s Market Trends and Technology Updates
Join the conversation between Daniel McGinniss (VP of Product Management, Cisco Compute) and Dorin Vanderjack (VP, General Mgr Intel Americas US OEM & Strategic Accounts) during Cisco live in Las Vegas.
Global Head of Sustainability Sielen Namdar on Driving Sustainable Innovation for Cisco & Customers
Global Head of Sustainability for Industries Sielen Namdar shares how Cisco innovations leads the charge towards a more sustainable future.
Cisco is Helping Customers Modernize Their Data Center Infrastructure
Jeremy Foster, General Manager and Senior Vice President of Cisco Compute, explains that Intel’s latest innovations deliver improved performance.
Learn how 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Processors deliver power efficiencies to partners like Cisco
Intel and Cisco Subject Matter Experts Dicuss Partnership at Cisco Live! Amsterdam
A fireside chat-like discussion featuring Intel and Cisco leaders. Topics range from AI and market trends to innovation, sustainability and cybersecurity.
Learn how the Intel and Cisco partnership can help deliver business outcomes for your enterprise
Intel and Cisco are Bringing Private 5G Solutions to Help Enterprises Solve Their Challenges
Caroline Chan, VP and GM at Intel and Jason Teller, VP at Cisco discuss how Intel and Cisco are collaborating to bring Private 5G solutions to solve business challenges in many different industries such as manufacturing, logistics, utilities, and sporting events.
Cisco UCS X Series M7 Platform
Jonathan Davidson, EVP and GM of Cisco Networking, announces the launch of the new Cisco UCS X Series M7 Platform powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors.
Differentiate with Intel Ethernet
Stu Goldstein from Intel’s Network group describes Intel solutions for Ethernet business and its use in Cisco UCS M7 platform.
AI/ML Inferencing Cisco X-Series Blades with Intel CPUs
Chris O’Brien, Director of UCS Solutions at Cisco explains LLM and image-based inferencing use cases on bare metal and Red Hat OpenShift.
InstantID with Stable Diffusion on UCS X-Series with Intel Flex 170 GPU
Todd Brannon, Senior Director, Solutions Product Manager at Cisco Compute provides insights for a demo where Cisco/Intel HW are used for rendering and running a model on UCS X-Series with Intel Flex 170 GPU.
RAG Demo on Cisco UCS X-Series powered by Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Chris O’Brien, Director, UCS Solutions at Cisco Compute, exhibits a multimodal RAG demo on Cisco UCS-X Series powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors.
Software Defined Broadcasting
Chris Lapp, Solutions Engineer at Cisco Compute, demonstrates a Software Defined Broadcasting demo for Media Processing and Transport. Cisco UCS X-Series, Intel Flex GPU and Intel Xeon processors are showcased in the solution.
Intel Data Center GPU FLEX Series Powers Cisco Accelerated VDI
General purpose GPUs optimized for media stream density and quality enabling high levels of reliability, availability and scalability.
GenAI with Cisco UCS and Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Minimize risk, accelerate time to value and time to deployment with Cisco, Intel and other ecosystem partners for simplified AI.
Simplified Operations with Cisco Intersight and Intel
Cisco Intersight® is an infrastructure lifecycle management solution delivered as-a-service or as a connected or private virtual appliance. It helps IT operations teams see, control, and automate their compute, storage, and networking infrastructure—wherever it is—from one place.