NVIDIA GTC Storage News Roundup
Blocks & Files, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Nvidia's 2026 GTC has seen a blizzard of storage-related announcements. Here are ones from Cisco, Hammerspace, Kioxia, MinIO, NetApp, Nvidia itself, Samsung, Supermicro, VAST Data, VDURA and WEKA.
Cisco has a new validated design for the VAST AI OS on Cisco AI PODs. This design validates the Cisco EBox running VAST AI OS as the shared data foundation for Cisco AI PODs. Built on Cisco UCS, the EBox provides an all-flash data plane for VAST AI OS. Cisco CNode-X brings GPU-accelerated data services directly to that foundation. For example, the VAST InsightEngine on Cisco UCS C845A M8 approach to bring vector search, accelerated analytics, event-driven services, and richer AI data pipelines directly into the platform. To learn more about Cisco's approach to AI infrastructure validation, visit the Cisco Validated website and look under Design guides for AI-ready infrastructure.