LABATO-2001 - Powering the AI Era: Building AI-Ready Data Centers with Real-Time Power Visibility Using Splunk
Proctors | Vanitha Kannan |
AI workloads are rewriting the rules of data center power management. Higher density. Greater demand. Zero tolerance for downtime. The real question is: Do you have the insights and control to meet the power demands of tomorrow's workloads today? Step into this walk-in lab and discover how to monitor, analyze, and optimize data center power distribution to stay ahead of the curve. Drawing from the operational reality of Cisco's CX Labs—18 locations, 197,000 square feet, 100,000+ devices, and 49,000 virtual machines, we'll take you through the strategies, tools, and insights that make proactive power management possible at scale. You'll learn how to transform Smart PDU data into a powerful decision-making engine using Splunk—unlocking real-time and historical insights into power usage, availability, and capacity at every level. Whether you're planning for your first AI deployment or scaling an existing one, this session will fundamentally change how you think about power. Here's what you'll gain: Complete real time visibility into power usage across rows, racks, and outlets—powered by Splunk. Strategies to detect and prevent overloads before they become outages. A proven approach to free up power capacity for AI and compute-heavy workloads. And dashboards designed to support smarter infrastructure decisions and sustainability commitments. This isn't theory. This is how Cisco does it. Come see for yourself.