Rafay and Cisco Partner To Power High-Performance AI Factories For Neoclouds and Sovereign AI Initiatives

Neoclouds and Sovereign AI initiatives are recognizing the need for high-performance networking and service infrastructure, along with mature observability, security and orchestration software. Rafay and Cisco have been hard at work to deliver a unified offering to power AI Factories, with a focus on helping operators deliver high-value AI use cases to their constituencies.

This week at Cisco Live US 2026, the engineering collaboration between the two companies has progressed to a commercial engagement: Rafay is now an official Cisco Solutions Plus partner. Customers buying Cisco AI infrastructure can now procure the Rafay Platform directly from Cisco, on the same purchase order. 

"We are at an inflection point in the AI infrastructure market. Neocloud and Sovereign AI are making significant capital investments, and the window to convert that capacity into competitive, revenue-ready services is narrow.” said Samir Parikh, VP of Product Management, Cisco. “The Rafay and Cisco Solutions Plus partnership exists precisely to help providers win that race — combining Cisco's best-in-class Secure AI infrastructure and Cisco Compatible Solutions Partners with Rafay's orchestration and governance platform in a single, streamlined offering that accelerates time to value and expands margin potential."

Why Solutions Plus matters for Neoclouds and Sovereign AI

Cisco’s Solutions Plus is a highly exclusive program that lists high-value solutions from third parties on the Cisco Global Price List (GPL). Rafay being listed on the Cisco GPL validates the depth of our deep platform integration with Cisco’s Secure AI infrastructure 

For customers, the Rafay Platform being in Solutions Plus is a boon. From simplified procurement to productization to high-margin operations, customers can now deliver AI secure Factories in weeks.

What Neoclouds and Sovereign AI can launch with Rafay

Cisco delivers NVIDIA GPUs, high-performance compute, the network fabric, security and observability. Rafay adds the orchestration, governance, and self-service layers required to operate that foundation as a multi-tenant AI cloud. The combination is available for purchase through Solutions Plus across three software bundles:

• Rafay Foundation software for essential hardware orchestration (servers, network, storage, firewalls, etc.) and Bare Metal-as-a-Service, giving providers the base layer required to get an AI cloud working.
• Rafay Compute software for Kubernetes, VM, and Slurm services, enabling GPUaaS offerings for different workload patterns.
• Rafay AI software bundle for AI/ML services such as inference, adding Model-as-a-Service capabilities on top of the GPU cloud.

The combined solution delivers three key outcomes: 

• Time to value, with a faster path to first GPU-hour revenue using fewer internal resources
• Extended reach, with an architecture that helps providers serve audiences beyond large training
• Business elevation, with higher GPU-hour margin potential by bringing downstream production AI, inference, and managed service workloads onto their clouds.

Meet Team Rafay at Cisco Live

Team Rafay is attending Cisco Live Vegas, and will be at booth #2706. If you are attending, we would love to discuss how Rafay and Cisco can speed the delivery of your AI Factory projects.