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Jeremy Foster

Senior Vice President & General Manager

Cisco Compute

Jeremy Foster is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Compute. As a member of Cisco’s senior leadership team, he is responsible for defining and growing the company’s multi-billion-dollar compute and SaaS infrastructure operations portfolio, driving innovation and entry into new markets, and incubating and scaling new businesses to profitable, sustainable growth. As a visionary leader and transformation expert, Jeremy is laser-focused on helping organizations unify and simplify the infrastructure operations experience everywhere, at scale. His team, made up of the best and brightest talent in the technology industry, builds world-class platforms that help customers harness the full potential of their compute and converged infrastructure investments while optimizing for cost, performance, security and sustainability. Jeremy has two decades of technology and sales leadership in the data center solutions space, most recently owning Cisco’s Cloud Infrastructure and Software Group, where he led the go-to-market strategy for a $9B+ business spanning across cloud, compute and networking software and hardware. He’s known for developing high-performance teams, driving business turnaround, and meeting aggressive growth targets. Jeremy holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri and a Master of Business Administration from Washington University.

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April 20, 2026

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

From Automation to Autonomy: Cisco and Rockwell Power a New Era for Manufacturing

2 min read

Cisco and Rockwell Automation are helping manufacturers move from isolated AI pilot to industrial autonomy by transforming fragmented systems into unified, adaptive environments that scale across the factory edge.

April 7, 2026

DATA CENTER

The next chapter of Cisco and Nutanix: Building flexible infrastructure for the modern era

5 min read

Cisco and Nutanix are partnering to deliver a flexible, hyperconverged platform from data center to edge, simplifying operations and accelerating AI adoption to meet evolving enterprise infrastructure demands.

March 30, 2026

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

When Buying Models Become Architecture Decisions

3 min read

The Cisco Enterprise Agreement simplifies the adoption of Nutanix by delivering operational simplicity, predictable pricing, and flexible expansion for modern infrastructure environments.

November 3, 2025

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AI isn’t waiting for the data center. The Edge is the new center of gravity.

4 min read

Cisco Unified Edge brings the power of the data center to where business actually happens — delivering secure, scalable AI at the edge.

October 28, 2025

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DATA CENTER

From AI Pilots to Production: Building Infrastructure That Makes AI Real

3 min read

Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA is accelerating: Isovalent is now validated for Kubernetes networking on Cisco AI PODs, delivering robust connectivity, observability and consistent policy definition and enforcement to containerized AI pipelines. NVIDIA HGX B300 (UCS C880A M8) and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (UCS X-Series X580p + X9516) expand Cisco AI compute with the latest high-performance GPUs from NVIDIA, expanding Cisco AI PODs server options for training, optimization, RAG and inferencing use cases. Cisco AI infrastructure ecosystem also expands with NVIDIA Run:ai and Nutanix NKP/NUS—momentum you can operationalize today.

September 30, 2025

DATA CENTER

From Workloads to Factories: Rethinking the Data Center for AI

3 min read

How Cisco is delivering an industrial-scale engine for competitive advantage with the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA.

September 17, 2025

DATA CENTER

Composable Infrastructure: What It Means in the AI Era

3 min read

AI is reshaping infrastructure demands—and traditional infrastructure can’t keep up. Discover how Cisco UCS X-Series with X-Fabric Technology 2.0 delivers true composability, unlocking scalable, GPU-accelerated performance for the AI era.

August 26, 2025

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DATA CENTER

Redefining Enterprise AI: Closing the Infrastructure Gap

3 min read

Enterprise AI success isn't just about GPU power—it's about integrating data, security, and operations at scale. Modular AI PODs and Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA framework from Cisco empower organizations to move quickly from experimentation to production with confidence and simplicity.

June 2, 2025

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Redefining Infrastructure Strategy for a Fragmented, Hybrid Future

3 min read

Flexibility, collaboration, and modularity are defining the next wave of enterprise IT Enterprise infrastructure strategy is entering a new phase—one where the goal is no longer just centralization or consolidation, but intelligent distribution. IT leaders are now balancing performance, governance, and agility across environments that span on-prem, cloud, and edge. And the playbook is changing. […]