Cisco Brings Self-Managed Splunk AI to On-Premises Environments

Cisco has introduced its AI POD for Splunk, which brings self-managed Splunk AI to on-premises, private cloud, and air-gapped environments. This offering is part of an expanded partnership with NVIDIA.

The Cisco AI POD for Splunk pairs new AI runtime software with Cisco infrastructure, NVIDIA accelerated computing, and a Kubernetes-based architecture optimized for Splunk AI workloads. The system's AI Tier software is integrated with Cisco UCS compute, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPU acceleration, and other components in a pre-sized, pre-validated system backed by single-vendor support.

The customer supplies the data-center environment and retains ownership of operations and security. Splunk documents two deployment paths: the integrated Cisco AI POD for Splunk or standalone AI Tier software installed on customer-qualified GPU and Kubernetes infrastructure with no incremental AI Tier software cost.