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Nicolas Sagnes
Nicolas Sagnes
Senior Product Marketing Manager
DC, Cloud and Internet Infrastructure
Nicolas Sagnes leads product marketing for Cisco’s AI Infrastructure and Compute portfolio, shaping the strategy and storytelling for AI PODs, UCS AI Servers, and the Cisco AI Data Platform with NVIDIA and VAST Data. His work supports Cisco’s Secure AI Factory vision—helping enterprises build trusted, scalable foundations for AI.
With more than a decade of experience spanning product management and marketing, Nicolas has held leadership roles across data center, cloud, and AI infrastructure. Prior to Cisco, he drove product marketing for the HPE GreenLake cloud platform, where he partnered with leading technology innovators to deliver next-generation solutions to market.
Originally from France and now based in Austin, Texas, Nicolas brings a global perspective to technology adoption, combining deep technical expertise with a focus on practical customer outcomes. He is known for translating complex concepts into actionable insights that help organizations accelerate innovation and growth.
At Cisco, Nicolas is focused on enabling customers and partners to navigate the rapid evolution of AI infrastructure, forging the collaborations that define the next chapter of secure, high-performance computing.
Articles
Cisco is expanding Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA with support for the NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPU across Cisco UCS and Unified Edge portfolios, providing high-density acceleration for enterprise AI inference, vision pipelines, and data processing. Starting in March 2026, these solutions will leverage new Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) and Intersight management to deliver a simplified, repeatable path to production from the core data center to the constrained edge.
A secure AI data platform combines VAST and Cisco UCS with Cilium, Tetragon, and Cisco AI Defense to accelerate RAG and agentic AI, while enforcing container-level segmentation, runtime visibility, and model/MCP security. Ship AI outcomes faster, without expanding your risk surface.
Cisco’s UCS C880A M8 with NVIDIA HGX B300 SXM GPUs and Intel Xeon 6th-Gen CPUs delivers unparalleled AI performance, scalability, and manageability—ideal for LLM inference, AI pipelines, and enterprise AI deployments.
