NVIDIA at OCP 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,
Steve McDowell
October 15, 2026
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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,
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
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
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 with a 32,768-core CPU rack and CPU plus GPU option. We look at the specs, partners, and
Cisco and NVIDIA introduced the Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP) at the Open Compute Global Summit 2026. The new optical transceiver form factor supports
Atlassian introduced the Agentic Multiplayer Protocol (AMP) at its Team ’26 Europe conference in Amsterdam. AMP is Atlassian’s framework for AI agents to participate in shared work alongside people across Jira, Confluence, Loom, Bitbucket, and the rest of the Atlassian cloud platform.
Quantum error correction is crossing a major threshold w/ significant recent announcements from IBM, Microsoft & Quantinuum, with a direct line to the commercialization of quantum computing.
The enterprise infrastructure market is faced with disruption across multiple fronts. Traditional virtualization platforms face unprecedented disruption, while emerging AI-first workloads demand architectures that seamlessly span on-prem, cloud, and edge environments.
It’s against this backdrop that Nutanix, Cisco, and Pure Storage have collaborated to reimagine converged infrastructure with Cisco’s FlashStack with Nutanix.
Oracle released its Oracle Database 26ai at its recent AI World event in Las Vegas. The update makes the database an integrated platform that embeds artificial intelligence capabilities across data management, development, and analytics operations.
The platform integrates vector search capabilities with traditional database functions, supports agentic AI workflows through in-database tools and MCP servers, and extends analytics capabilities through Iceberg table format support. Oracle also bundles in advanced AI features, including AI Vector Search, at no additional cost.
At its 2025 Partner Summit in San Diego this week, Cisco announced three interconnected infrastructure initiatives to address the operational, connectivity, and edge-computing requirements of AI workloads.
The announcements span network management simplification through AgenticOps workflows, GPU-as-a-Service connectivity via SD-WAN integration with Megaport AI Exchange, and a new converged edge computing platform called Unified Edge.
Wind River Cloud Platform emerges as a compelling enterprise-grade alternative that addresses both immediate VMware challenges and long-term infrastructure modernization needs. Built on proven open-source technologies including StarlingX, Kubernetes, and OpenStack, the platform delivers unified management of both virtual machines and containers under a single, highly automated infrastructure solution.
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