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MarianNewsome for Coverage on #AIIFD4: When regulators conflict, your data infrastructure bears the weight. @Hammerspace_Inc explores how robust systems are key for diverse legal landscapes. Read more on #LinkedIn Pulse:

The AI hype cycle is cooling down—and that’s exactly what enterprises need.

On The Tech Aunties, Gina & Marian recap AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 and explain why enterprise AI is finally moving from hype to real production deployments.

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The Tech Aunties Podcast with MarianNewsome dives into #AIIFD4! Explore the pragmatic shift to production-ready AI infrastructure & governance. Featuring insights from @ForwardNetworks, @H

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Coverage: @ChrisGrundemann explores autonomous network silicon's potential to streamline operations & boost performance. See how @XsightLabs is pushing these boundaries at #AIIFD4. Read more: #LinkedIn

Just asked a vendor to prove it, not pitch it—and they did! Check out my new article. Link in bio.

#AIGovernance #WomenInTech #WomenInCyber #IEEE #EthicalTechMatters #AIIFD4

Your GPUs Are Only as Good as the Network Feeding Them – Paradigm Technica When an organization spends hundreds of millions of dollars on GPU clusters, every idle millisecond is a financial loss. That’s not hyperbole—it’s the economic reality driving the most consequential...

Coverage: @Poller's article on @Cisco highlights how network infrastructure is vital for maximizing GPU performance in AI. GPUs are only as good as the network feeding them! #AIIFD4

174: GreyBeards talk SDN chips with Ted Weatherford, VP Bus. Dev. & John Carney. Dist. Eng. at Xsight Labs Xsight Labs talks their latest SDN X2 network switch and E1 DPU chips with the GreyBeards

Join @GreybeardsStor in episode 174 as @RayLucchesi & Jason Collier chat with @XsightLabs about SDN chips enhancing network performance & agility for modern data centers. Discover more from #AIIFD4! Coverage @BocaNuts

I challenged a vendor live at #AIIFD4 on where the math ends and the AI begins.

Their answer surprised me.

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#AIGovernance #ForwardNetworks #ZeroTrust #NetworkSecurity

What Solidigm Showed at AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 At AIIFD4, one message was unmistakable: the AI era is being shaped by data, and storage is finally taking center stage.

Gina Rosenthal (@GMinks) provides Coverage of @Solidigm's AI-driven storage solutions at #AIIFD4, enhancing data center efficiencies & workload management. Read the full overview from @TechstrongIT:

Hammerspace addresses data gravity in enterprises by using metadata assimilation, objective-based policies, and agentic data management to create a unified data pipeline tailored for AI workflows. #AIIFD4 #LinkedIn

Finally, Network Silicon That Thinks for Itself

Xsight Labs is rewriting networking silicon. 🚀

At #AIIFD4, @ChrisGrundemann.com discusses #XSightLabs' X2 12.8T switch & E1 800G DPU—fully programmable, energy-efficient, & open for AI infrastructure innovation.

#AIIFD4 #Networking #AIInfrastructure #DPUs

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Fresh article about the Signal65 #AIIFD4 presentation. #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #AI #Signal65 #Research #AIDataCenter #AIDataPrep #AIStorage #LiquidCooling www.linkedin.com/pulse/aiifd4...

Coverage: @GMinks discusses how @NetApp's unified intelligence strategy is shaping its AI vision, integrating AI operations & data management for better outcomes. Learn more from @TechstrongAI & #AIIFD4.

Coverage: @DemitasseNZ on @TechstrongAI emphasizes that robust AI infrastructure is crucial for maximizing business value from AI technologies. Better infrastructure directly enhances AI performance & positive business outcomes. #AIIFD4

Ultra-Reliable Wireless for Your Physical and Mobile AI Devices - Techstrong IT In the middle of a busy warehouse, a robot pauses. It’s not because the battery is dead or the route is blocked. It’s because the wireless signal dipped for a fraction of a second while it was…

If AI moves in the physical world, the network can’t blink.

At #AIIFD4, @DemitasseNZ.bsky.social explains why #Cisco's ultra-reliable wireless is becoming foundational for Physical AI.

#AIIFD4 #AIInfrastructure #PhysicalAI #WiFi7 #EdgeAI #IndustrialAI

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How Fabrix Makes Multi-Agent AI Work in Production - Techstrong.ai AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 made one thing unmistakably clear: the challenges aren’t GPU shortages or model selection. The real blockers are operational, lifecycle management, data locality,…

At #AIIFD4, #FabrixAI showed why operationalizing multi-agent AI is the real enterprise challenge—not GPU shortages or model choice.

@GMinks.bsky.social #TechstrongAI #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI #AIInfrastructure #Middleware #OperationalAI #Fabrix #AIIFD4 #AIOps

One Rack, One Exabyte, Zero Excuses: How Open Storage Is Rewriting AI Infrastructure – Paradigm Technica Insights, Advice, and Solutions

🏗️ AI factories are hitting a storage wall—until now.

Hammerspace and Xsight Labs’ Open Flash Platform delivers 1 exabyte per rack with extreme density, low power, and open architecture.

@Poller.bsky.social #AIInfrastructure #OpenFlashPlatform #ExabyteStorage #AIIFD4

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174: GreyBeards talk SDN chips with Ted Weatherford, VP Bus. Dev. & John Carney. Dist. Eng. at Xsight Labs Xsight Labs talks their latest SDN X2 network switch and E1 DPU chips with the GreyBeards

🌐 #XsightLabs is redefining AI-ready networking.

At #AIIFD4, they showcased the X2 Switch (12.8Tbps, 1RU, <200W) and E1 DPU (64 ARM cores, Linux-capable, 800Gbps line rate, TBs of DDR5 memory at 75W).

@RayLucchesi.bsky.social #AIInfrastructure #DataCenters #AI

Every Network Has an Expiration Date—Here’s How Cisco Is Extending Yours – Paradigm Technica Insights, Advice, and Solutions

🚀 The networks you build today need to be AI-ready and quantum-resistant.

#Cisco unifies #Meraki and #Catalyst management into a single platform, powered by the Secure Networking Processor.

@Poller.bsky.social #AIIFD4 #AI #AINetworking #QuantumSecurity

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AIIFD4: Hammerspace and Xsight Impressive! At AI Infrastructure Field Day #AIIFD4, Hammerspace and Xsight Labs revealed how they’re transforming AI data centers.

🚀 AI infrastructure just got supercharged!

At AI Infrastructure Field Day #AIIFD4, Hammerspace and Xsight Labs revealed how they’re transforming AI data centers.

@PJWelcher @TechFieldDay @DemitasseNZ #AIInfrastructure #DataCenter #AI #AIDataCenter

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Querying Your Network in Plain English with Forward AI and the Digital Twin - Techstrong.ai We’ve all spent plenty of time looking at network diagrams that were out of date before the ink was even dry. You’re trying to figure out if a specific security policy is actually doing what it’s…

Forward AI uses math—not guesswork—to eliminate toil. 🌐

From #AIIFD4 on #TechstrongAI, @DemitasseNZ.bsky.social discusses how #ForwardNetworks is using GenAI on top of a mathematically precise digital twin.

#AIIFD4 #AIInfrastructure #ForwardAI #GenAI #AgenticAI

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Enterprises are losing the AI race not because they lack compute — but because their data is chaos. One exabyte. One rack. One open standard that changes the economics entirely.

New analysis: paradigmtechnica.com...

#AIIFD4 #AI #Storage

Your GPUs Are Only as Good as the Network Feeding Them – Paradigm Technica Insights, Advice, and Solutions

Are GPUs only as valuable as the network behind them? 🤔

@Poller.bsky.social argues that AI economics are forcing a fundamental rethink of data center design: the network is no longer plumbing—it’s the profit margin.

#Cisco #AIIFD4 #AIInfrastructure #Networking

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New blog: Hammerspace and Xsights Impressive! Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #AIIFD4 #AI #SSD #AIStorage #OpenFlashPlatform #Hammerspace #Xsightlabs #LowPower #DenseStorage www.linkedin.com/pulse/aiifd4...

How Fabrix Makes Multi-Agent AI Work in Production - Techstrong.ai AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 made one thing unmistakably clear: the challenges aren’t GPU shortages or model selection. The real blockers are operational, lifecycle management, data locality,…

Fabrix Makes Agentic AI Production-Ready 👇

@GMinks.bsky.social writes how #FabrixAI showed that enterprise AI failures aren’t about models or GPUs—they’re about operations.

@TechFieldDay.com #TechstrongAI #AIIFD4 #AgenticOps #AgenticAI #AIGovernance

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The E-Series Delivering Cloud-on-a-Chip from Xsight Labs The E-Series session explores the convergence of storage, networking, compute, and security into a single, cohesive silicon platform. This “Cloud-on-a-chip” approach is dissected through its…

ICYMI: The E-Series Delivering Cloud-on-a-Chip from Xsight Labs

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Data, Scale, and the Future of Inference at AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 - Tech Field Day Takeaways AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 #AIIFD4: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLinuRwpnsHadg9-AJ48tlEhWHNrPJmq4uAI isn’t just about bigger models—it’s about d...

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General-purpose infrastructure doesn’t scale when AI becomes an always-on business workload.

Alastair Cooke notes that hardware and models are now purpose-built for efficient inference, often replacing large edge servers with smaller, specialized devices.

#TFDTakeaways #AIIFD4

Introducing Forward AI, chat with your network, with Forward Networks Forward Networks' foundational technology is a "digital twin of the network," which serves as a behavioral source of truth. This software platform connects to all network devices, collecting…

ICYMI: Introducing Forward AI, chat with your network, with Forward Networks

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Data, Scale, and the Future of Inference at AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 - Tech Field Day Takeaways AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 #AIIFD4: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLinuRwpnsHadg9-AJ48tlEhWHNrPJmq4uAI isn’t just about bigger models—it’s about d...

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