Cisco today made Cisco IQ generally available to partners at Cisco Partner Summit in Vancouver, opening the support platform’s telemetry and automation to partner workflows through a Cisco IQ MCP Server, expanded API access, and role-based access control that lets a customer grant its partner direct visibility into its installed base. Cisco says the platform

Smartbird and WEKA have announced a partnership that puts WEKA NeuralMesh inside Smartbird’s dedicated AI clusters, sold as a managed service for enterprise AI workloads. Smartbird designs, builds, and operates each cluster for a single customer’s workloads, on-premises or in a dedicated colocation facility, and the companies describe the result as sovereign by design, with

NVIDIA announced Minerva at GTC Berlin, an AIOps platform that pulls telemetry from GPUs, networking, storage, schedulers, and the AI workloads running on them, then applies machine learning to find a degrading component before it slows a training job. Dell Technologies, Lenovo, and Supermicro will offer it in their AI factory operations portfolios, IREN is

AMD and Intel announced that they will combine their x86 CPU optimization work for PyTorch in oneDNN, the open-source deep learning library governed by the Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL), and have aligned on it as the default open-source library for x86 acceleration inside PyTorch. AMD is folding its ZenDNN optimizations into oneDNN and has joined

Supermicro announced the NVIDIA Vera CPU rack today, a 48U, 100 percent liquid-cooled rack that holds 256 NVIDIA Vera CPUs, 22,528 cores, and 45,056 threads and that Supermicro rates for up to 22,500 concurrent agent sandboxes. It is the newest member of the Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) portfolio, built to run beside the

VAST Data announced the Agent Sandbox Foundation Stack with NVIDIA at NVIDIA GTC Berlin, a reference architecture that runs NVIDIA NemoClaw agents inside NVIDIA OpenShell sandboxes on the VAST AI Operating System. OpenShell handles isolated execution and policy enforcement around each agent, and VAST handles the parts that have to outlive the sandbox: the agent’s

Brian hosted Bill Bollengier, Senior Director of Product Management at Micron, for a live podcast on LinkedIn on October 15, with Bill calling in from the floor of the OCP Global Summit. The subject was the Micron 6600 ION 245TB SSD and what a quarter petabyte per drive bay does to floor space, power budgets,

NVIDIA’s GTC Berlin announcements today span containerized Vera Rubin infrastructure, a 2.5x expansion of its substrate supply, and software for AI factory power management and agent security, along with telecom, autonomous vehicle, robotics, and healthcare programs. The headline number is a deployment target: NVIDIA says its new DSX POD reference design cuts an AI factory’s

VAST Data announced that DeepL is deploying the VAST AI Operating System as the data foundation for the research environments behind its written and real-time voice translation. Based on current deployment plans, DeepL expects roughly three times the storage capacity of the NVMe hardware it already runs, and it will use VAST’s SyncEngine to migrate