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Cisco: Secure AI Factory Expands to the Edge with Agentic Security

Steve McDowell
March 28, 2026

At NVIDIA GTC 2026, Cisco announced a significant expansion of its Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, broadening its validated AI infrastructure architecture from centralized data centers to enterprise and service provider edge deployments. The announcement includes hardware-accelerated security, updated switching silicon, new Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs), and a formalized

Dell Technologies: AI Data Platform with NVIDIA

Steve McDowell
March 28, 2026

Dell Technologies announced a major expansion of its AI Data Platform at the recent NVIDIA GTC 2026 event. Dell’s AI Data Platform serves as the data foundation layer of its Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. The announcement highlights three new architectural pillars: Data Orchestration Engine built on Dataloop, GPU-accelerated analytics

NVIDIA STX & CMX: Infrastructure for Agentic AI Context Storage

Steve McDowell
March 23, 2026

NVIDIA announced its BlueField-4 STX reference architecture at GTC 2026, introducing a modular framework for deploying accelerated storage infrastructure optimized for agentic AI workloads. The architecture addresses a specific technical challenge: as AI systems evolve from single-turn interactions to complex, multi-step agentic workflows with context windows spanning millions of tokens,

NVIDIA GTC 2026: Infrastructure Announcements

Steve McDowell
March 22, 2026

The focus at NVIDIA GTC 2026 was on developing a unified infrastructure model that vendors are now adopting. The industry has effectively reached a stage where NVIDIA sets the architectural standard, while partners compete on how well they implement it in enterprise and service-provider environments.

NVIDIA Just Rewired the AI Factory — And Networking Is Now the Star of the Show

Michael McDowell
March 20, 2026

Together, these components make a rack behave like a single system instead of a collection of servers held together by hope and bailing wire.

Everpure ActiveCluster for File

Steve McDowell
March 13, 2026

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) recently announced ActiveCluster for file, extending its synchronous replication and continuous availability capabilities from block storage to file workloads. The company sees this capability as a foundational component of its Enterprise Data Cloud strategy, with general availability planned for Q2 2026.

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