Cisco Brings Splunk AI On-Premises With New NVIDIA-Accelerated AI POD

At Splunk.conf, Cisco unveiled Cisco AI POD for Splunk, a system for running Splunk AI on-premises, in private clouds and air-gapped environments on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs and Kubernetes. Splunk AI Assistant is available now, with Agent Launchpad due later in 2026.

• AI POD combines AI Tier software, Cisco UCS, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs and OpenShift
• Supports Cisco Deep Time Series, Google Gemma 4 and OpenAI GPT-OSS 20B models
• Splunk AI Assistant available now, Agent Launchpad later in 2026
• Splunk and AWS signed a multi-year co-development agreement