OCI's Hyperscale AI Networking: Project Acceleron

2025-10-21 post Matt Ferguson

When you’ve spent a career in networking as I did at Cisco designing global service provider backbones and architecting massively scalable enterprise data-centers, you start to appreciate the art of engineering trade-offs. The subtle details behind ASIC design, optical signaling, and network hops can make-or-break stringent performance tolerances; they can also directly influence business outcomes. That’s why, for me, one of the most significant announcements at Oracle AI World wasn’t about GPUs, it was about networking. Specifically, Oracle’s Acceleron fabric, the new backbone of OCI’s AI infrastructure. Continue reading

How to Build a Serverless Image Analysis Pipeline on OCI

2025-09-24 post Matt Ferguson

This guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough for building a complete, serverless image analysis pipeline on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). You’ll learn how to deploy a containerized web app that saves uploaded images to Object Storage, automatically triggering an event-driven serverless Function. This function then leverages the OCI Vision AI service to perform object detection, ultimately storing the resulting JSON metadata in an Oracle Autonomous Database to create a powerful, end-to-end workflow that transforms raw images into structured, analyzable data. Continue reading

Linkedin: OCI Operationalizes NVIDIA Blackwell

OCI is bringing NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems to life with APIs and orchestration that make the world’s largest AI/ML clusters usable, elastic, and available across public, dedicated, and sovereign clouds.

Linkedin: OCI Launches NVIDIA Blackwell

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has just deployed thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to power next-generation reasoning models and AI agents!

AI Model Inferencing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

2025-04-17 post Matt Ferguson

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers powerful compute instances with GPU acceleration, making it an excellent platform for running large language models. In this guide, I’ll breakdown and walk you through the process of setting up an OCI instance to run Mistral AI models using vLLM for efficient inference. Continue reading

Linkedin: Oracle Solutions Hub

Dive into practical AI development and master essential cloud tech along the way (API Gateways, Object Storage, Analytics & more)

My 1Password SSH Agent Setup for OCI

2024-10-09 post Matt Ferguson

Since I work at Oracle, naturally I use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). And, as with any cloud, securely accessing compute instances while maintaining good key hygiene is essential. Here’s how I leverage 1Password’s SSH Agent to create a more secure, convenient workflow for connecting to my OCI compute instances. Continue reading