# AI-Ready Private Cloud with Cisco and VMware

DevFeed: [AI-Ready Private Cloud with Cisco and VMware](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ai-ready-private-cloud-with-cisco-and-vmware-12808.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/09/08/ai-ready-private-cloud-with-cisco-and-vmware/>)

Author: sabina anja

Published: 2026-09-08T15:33:39Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [VMware Blogs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/vmware-blogs.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [distributed-training](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-training.md>), [datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datacenter.md>), [GPU](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [model-deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-deployment.md>), [inference-endpoints](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference-endpoints.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [cisco](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cisco.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [cloud-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-platform.md>), [data-center](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center.md>), [distributed-training](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-training.md>), [fabric](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fabric.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [home-page](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/home-page.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [inference-endpoints](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference-endpoints.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [object-storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/object-storage.md>), [pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipelines.md>), [private-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/private-cloud.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [vcf-9-1](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vcf-9-1.md>), [vcf-networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vcf-networking.md>), [vmware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vmware.md>), [vmware-cloud-foundation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vmware-cloud-foundation.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains why an AI-ready private cloud requires more than adding GPUs. It focuses on how Broadcom and Cisco are integrating VMware Cloud Foundation with Cisco Nexus One Fabric to address AI workload networking, including bandwidth-intensive east-west traffic, bursty north-south traffic, latency, congestion management, and telemetry across virtual and physical infrastructure.

## Source excerpt

An AI-ready private cloud is not simply a private cloud with GPUs added to it. What determines whether a private cloud platform can actually serve AI workloads effectively is everything built around them: how the fabric carries traffic, how the tenancy model lets teams consume capacity, and how policy and telemetry stay coherent across the ... Continued The post AI-Ready Private Cloud with Cisco and VMware appeared first on VMware Blogs.