Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
ChatGPT began AI's watershed moment that triggered IT infrastructure's tectonic shift and race in extraordinary and lasting commitments to AI Factory. Many governments and enterprises alike are making enormous capital and people investments to not be left behind the AI boom. Corporate boardrooms are evaluating purposeful infrastructure plans. What is the best architectural decision - retrofitting, built from scratch or adopt a wait-and-see? This fork in the road has given pause and decision paralysis to some infrastructure decision makers. Our talk examines the AI Factory Spectrum to identify solutions that advance the infrastructure challenge sustainably.
Data is king. Tremendous circularity opportunity to do Life Cycle Management from AI data migration. Energy is king. Train AI once, multiple use opportunity for Energy and Storage Management Built new or retrofit. It depends. Discuss architectural use cases.
Presented by Chih-Tsung Huang, Cisco and Wei-Jen Huang, Cisco
Learn More:
• SDC Website: snia.org/sniadeveloper
• SNIA Website: snia.org
• SNIA Educational Library: snia.org/library
• X: twitter.com/SNIA
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
ChatGPT began AI's watershed moment that triggered IT infrastructure's tectonic shift and race in extraordinary and lasting commitments to AI Factory. Many governments and enterprises alike are making enormous capital and people investments to not be left behind the AI boom. Corporate boardrooms are evaluating purposeful infrastructure plans. What is the best architectural decision - retrofitting, built from scratch or adopt a wait-and-see? This fork in the road has given pause and decision paralysis to some infrastructure decision makers. Our talk examines the AI Factory Spectrum to identify solutions that advance the infrastructure challenge sustainably.
Data is king. Tremendous circularity opportunity to do Life Cycle Management from AI data migration. Energy is king. Train AI once, multiple use opportunity for Energy and Storage Management Built new or retrofit. It depends. Discuss architectural use cases.
Presented by Chih-Tsung Huang, Cisco and Wei-Jen Huang, Cisco
Learn More:
• SDC Website: snia.org/sniadeveloper
• SNIA Website: snia.org
• SNIA Educational Library: snia.org/library
• X: twitter.com/SNIA
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
