Your first AI proof of concept succeeded. Your platform did not.
The technology worked. The use case delivered results. Then someone asked how to scale it to more users, more use cases, and a platform that IT can actually manage. That question landed on desks that were never involved in the original project.
Most organizations do not start from a blank canvas. They already run systems, enforce policies, and manage teams across departments. AI lands on top of all of it. The number of infrastructure parameters to choose from is overwhelming, and teams freeze because every decision feels high-stakes and irreversible.
Meanwhile, security gets postponed. The first use case runs, a second agent follows, then a third. And then the question surfaces: how is any of this actually secured? Adding security after the fact means you already know you are too late.
In this discussion recorded at Cisco Live Amsterdam, Jara Osterfeld (Cisco) and Remco van der Horst (Devoteam) explain how standardized infrastructure options give teams a shared vocabulary to decide faster, and why security belongs in the foundation from day one.
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