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llm-d 1.0 Open Distributed Inference for Production AI

Steve McDowell
October 21, 2026

The llm-d project recently released version 1.0, the first stable release of an open-source, Kubernetes-native framework for distributing large language model inference across fleets of accelerators. llm-d sits above inference engines such as vLLM and SGLang, adding routing, cache management, and scheduling across model servers.

NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026: Speed, Security and a Sovereignty Tradeoff

Steve McDowell
October 21, 2026

At GTC Berlin 2026, NVIDIA made an ambitious pitch to Europe to build regional AI infrastructure, develop sovereign intelligence, and accelerate industrial AI adoption on NVIDIA technology. The announcements spanned modular AI factories, agent security, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and open models.

OCP 2026: Taking Open Hardware from the Chip to the Grid

Steve McDowell
October 20, 2026

The Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit has long been a place where hyperscalers share rack, power, and cooling designs that influence the broader data center industry. This year’s sold-out event, attended by roughly 15,000 people and with another 3,000 on the waitlist, demonstrated how far that mission has expanded.

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.

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