TD SYNNEX, in collaboration with Cisco and NVIDIA, today announced the inauguration of a Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA innovation hub at its office in Paris. This new innovation hub is designed to accelerate the adoption of secure, scalable, and production-ready AI solutions for enterprises across France and the broader EMEA region.
TD SYNNEX is the only Cisco distributor in EMEA to offer this Secure AI Factory capability, reinforcing its leadership in enabling partners to design, test, and scale next-generation AI solutions.
Hosted within TD SYNNEX’s Paris facilities, the Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA innovation hub provides partners and customers with a hands-on environment to design, test, and deploy AI use cases, leveraging Cisco’s secure infrastructure with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform and AI software.
This initiative reinforces TD SYNNEX’s commitment to leading AI enablement across Europe, helping organisations balance innovation with data protection, compliance, and resilience requirements.
Craig Smith, Vice President, Data, AI and Applications, Europe, TD SYNNEX said: “As the only Cisco distributor in EMEA offering this Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA capability, TD SYNNEX is uniquely positioned to help partners accelerate AI adoption. By bringing together Cisco and NVIDIA technologies in a collaborative environment, we turn innovation into tangible business outcomes.”
Cassie Roach, Global Vice President of Cloud and AI Infrastructure Partner Sales, Cisco said: “AI is reshaping every industry, but trust must be the foundation. Together with TD SYNNEX and NVIDIA, we are enabling organisations to innovate while scaling AI with confidence and security.”
Dirk Barfuss, Director of EMEA Channel, NVIDIA said: “The Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA at TD SYNNEX in Paris gives customers a practical way to turn AI ambition into measurable business impact. With Cisco’s trusted and secure infrastructure powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and software, TD SYNNEX’s strong partner reach across EMEA, this hub will help organisations explore high-value use cases, validate solutions, and unlock the transformative benefits of AI with confidence.”
As organisations rapidly embrace generative and agentic AI, the need for secure, governed, and high-performance AI infrastructure has never been greater. The Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA combines Cisco’s secure networking, data centre, and observability capabilities with NVIDIA AI Factory reference architectures, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and accelerated computing.
Together, these technologies deliver a fully integrated, secure AI platform from data ingestion and model training to deployment and lifecycle management, with security embedded at every layer.
The Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA in Paris acts as a centre of excellence for AI innovation, enabling:
• Security-first AI architectures by design
• Rapid development and validation of AI proofs of concept (PoCs)
• Exploration of secure generative AI and agentic architectures
• Co-innovation workshops with TD SYNNEX, Cisco, and NVIDIA experts
• Support for hybrid and sovereign deployment models
• Access to validated AI infrastructure, software and use cases
• Hands-on enablement for partners to accelerate go-to-market
• Scalable infrastructure aligned with enterprise and regulatory needs
By offering a production-grade environment, TD SYNNEX helps organisations move from AI experimentation to real-world deployment faster and with reduced risk.
The Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA is further strengthened by a broader ecosystem of partners, including Red Hat and NetApp, supporting open hybrid cloud and AI workload portability, intelligent data management and storage integration, and flexible and interoperable AI deployment models.
This ecosystem approach ensures customers benefit from open, scalable, supported and future-ready AI environments.
The inauguration of the Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA in Paris marks a significant milestone for TD SYNNEX in building a leading AI innovation ecosystem across EMEA, helping partners and customers transform data into actionable insights—securely and at scale.
The facility is now open to customers, partners, and developers, offering guided engagements, technical workshops, and tailored innovation programs.
Picture: Sam Parris, Vice President Security, Networking & Communications, Europe, TD SYNNEX, cutting the ribbon at the opening of the Secure AI Factory in Paris.
For more information, visit www.TDSYNNEX.com,
