The Multimillion-Dollar Fabric Decision: Why Neoclouds Need Unified Networks
Cisco, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
An enterprise CFO reviews AI spend: training bills are spiking at a hyperscaler where they already have contracts in place, even if their data does not live exclusively there; inference performance is lagging; and a neocloud pilot is on the table.
Only a year or two ago, practical choices were mostly limited to hyperscalers; the recent explosion of AI has made neoclouds a real option for many organizations as they mature and learn they have alternatives when they hit limits on performance, cost, flexibility, service, or GPU availability. The question isn't whether to use a neocloud; it's whether that neocloud can capture the full AI lifecycle-training and production inference-or just a one-time project.