CDW is rolling out new and expanded services designed to help customers rapidly adopt and operate the Cisco Cloud Control platform and AI Defense product. Together, these innovations establish a unified model for managing infrastructure and governing AI. CDW is moving quickly to help customers turn that model into real-world operations.

Cisco Cloud Control, announced this month at Cisco Live, provides a unified management platform for humans and agents to run critical IT infrastructure together. To accelerate operationalization of this new platform, CDW has introduced its Adoption Accelerator for Cisco Cloud Control, a structured engagement that helps customers assess readiness, align stakeholders and build a phased roadmap for adoption.

In parallel, CDW is expanding its services for Cisco AI Defense, helping organizations discover AI usage, validate models and applications and implement guardrails for AI interactions and data.

“Cisco is redefining how organizations manage infrastructure and secure AI with Cloud Control and AI Defense,” said Conor Waddell, CDW’s Senior Vice President of Product and Partner Management. “We’re helping customers turn that innovation into real operational capability, simplifying how they run their environments while helping them keep AI governed, secure and production ready.”

“As organizations move faster to adopt AI, the risk surface expands just as quickly,” said Stephanie Hagopian, Senior Vice President of Security at CDW. “Cisco AI Defense gives customers the ability to see, validate, and protect how AI is being used across the enterprise. Our role is to support how customers deploy and operate AI Defense, helping customers scale AI securely without slowing innovation.”

The Adoption Accelerator for Cisco Cloud Control combines a workshop, readiness assessment and adoption roadmap to move customers from evaluation to execution with clarity and speed.

CDW’s AI Defense services extend across discovery, validation and runtime protection, helping customers gain the visibility and controls needed to safely scale AI across the enterprise.

“Cisco is introducing Cisco Cloud Control and AI Defense to help customers simplify how they operate critical IT infrastructure and strengthen how they secure it in the age of AI,” said DJ Sampath, Cisco’s SVP and GM of AI Software and Platform. “Partners like CDW add even more value to the platform through the services, expertise, and operational support they provide customers by helping them adopt this new unified platform and agentic operating model with confidence so they can turn innovation into outcomes.”

CDW’s services for Cisco Cloud Control and AI Defense establish a repeatable model for how organizations adopt and operate Cisco’s next-generation platforms, connecting unified control with AI governance in a way that accelerates time to production. CDW supports customers across that lifecycle, from initial strategy through implementation and ongoing operations.