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#572: How Cisco Protects AI Agents in Modern Data Centers

Mar 31, 2026
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Dave West
Dave West, Senior Cisco executive with 25 years leading global specialist teams, explains Cisco’s OneCisco platform and AI-ready data center stacks. He covers secure networking as the foundation. He describes AI infrastructure partnerships, micro-segmentation, Zero Trust, Splunk-driven visibility, and agentic operations for hybrid work. Practical architecture and containment strategies get center stage.
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INSIGHT

OneCisco Is A Platform Not Just A Vision

  • Cisco has shifted to a platform mindset called OneCisco that fuses networking with security, data center, AI, and observability.
  • Dave West explains this integration reduces customer fragmentation by delivering combined secure networking and data center capabilities.
ADVICE

Deliver AI Ready Data Centers As A Full Stack

  • Build AI-ready data centers as a full stack offering including compute, networking, storage, automation, and ecosystem partnerships.
  • Dave West cites Cisco's work with NVIDIA Spectrum X, NVLink, SuperNICs, and Bluefield 300 as concrete elements customers can adopt.
INSIGHT

Wrap Security And Visibility Around AI Infrastructure

  • Security must be wrapped around AI infrastructure to provide guardrails for data, model choice, and telemetry.
  • West stresses using Splunk for visibility and forensics so organizations can detect anomalies and analyze machine-data from AI usage.
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