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Veeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365

Steve McDowell
October 19, 2026

Veeam announced that its Intelligent ResOps (iResOps) for Microsoft 365 is now generally available. The product is an add-on to Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 that discovers Microsoft Copilot and other AI agents within a tenant, maps the sensitive data each agent can access, identifies redundant, obsolete, and trivial

NVIDIA at OCP 2026

Steve McDowell
October 15, 2026

NVIDIA made a broad set of contributions and announcements at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, all designed to remove friction from large-scale deployments at hyperscalers, neoclouds, and large enterprises.

Intel GPU D270: An Inference-First GPU for the Data Center

Steve McDowell
October 15, 2026

Intel introduced its new Intel GPU D-Series at this year’s 2026 Open Compute Global Summit. The Intel GPU D270 is the first inference accelerator based on its Crescent Island architecture, a 350W, air-cooled, double-wide PCIe Gen5 card built on Intel's Xe3P architecture.

Cisco at OCP 2026

Steve McDowell
October 14, 2026

Cisco updated nearly every layer of its AI networking stack at the recent 2026 OCP Global Summit. The company announced production deployments of its Silicon One P200 routing silicon at Microsoft and Alibaba, began shipping the first systems based on its 102.4 Tbps Silicon One G300, and introduced the Silicon

IonQ Acquires Elisity: Quantum-Safe Security Meets Identity-Based Microsegmentation

Steve McDowell
October 13, 2026

IonQ has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Elisity, a privately held Zero Trust security company specializing in identity-based micro-segmentation.

AMD Helion Brings Rack-Scale Design to Agentic AI

Steve McDowell
October 13, 2026

AMD Helion brings rack-scale design to agentic AI with a 32,768-core CPU rack and CPU plus GPU option. We look at the specs, partners, and NVIDIA Vera competition.

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