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AI-Ready Infrastructure

Drive innovation with Cisco AI solutions

Cisco has the cutting-edge infrastructure to power AI, unmatched breadth and scale of data to feed it, and a portfolio optimized to secure it. Learn how Cisco AI solutions can add meaningful, measurable value across your organization.

The AI market opportunity

  • $US159 billion opportunity.  Generative AI will be a US$159 billion opportunity for the channel ecosystem by 2028.
  • 28% of companies lack Gen AI skills or expertise in-house.
  • 50% of organizations will have replaced time-consuming, bottom-up forecasting approaches with AI by 2028, resulting in autonomous operational, demand, and other types of planning.

Sources:  Canalys, IDC, Gartner

Why get the AI-Ready Infrastructure Specialization?​

  • Drive customer engagement. With gen AI top of mind for customers, partner with Cisco to better engage them on their AI adoption journey.
  • Confidently advise customers on AI consumption models, infrastructure strategy, security requirements, and governance.
  • Gain a competitive edge. Develop key capabilities to leverage AI’s full value and thrive in the AI-dominated market now and in the future.

Get and keep a specialization

Review the requirements to verify that you qualify. Apply and agree to the terms and conditions. After receiving approval, ensure that you maintain the requirements. Renew your specialization annually. (Partner admin must apply and renew).