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We're collaborating with @nokia to advance the deployment of high-performance, high-trust AI at enterprise scale. Stelia is embedded in some of the world’s most data-intensive enterprise environments, serving as the operational backbone for governed, production-quality AI. By integrating Nokia's leading open-standards-based networking technology into its AI ecosystem, Stelia is enabling reliable performance across distributed systems - built for the most demanding business use cases. “Our collaboration helps organisations support demanding AI workloads while maintaining the trust, governance and connectivity required for real-world operations”, said Paul Alexander, Vice President and Country Manager at Nokia. Alongside Stelia’s wider ecosystem of partners, the companies are redefining what trusted, enterprise-wide capability looks like, underpinning critical services across industries including space, media and entertainment, retail, and finance. For businesses, this is accelerating decision-making, reducing operational risk, and unlocking measurable returns from production-grade AI deployments Read more about the collaboration here: newsroom.stelia.ai/stelia-and-nok…

Stelia CTO David Hughes’s next stop is Berlin where he'll be speaking about building robust infrastructure to scale AI workloads at @Leaseweb's Tech Meetup. The great line-up of speakers also includes Ömer Karabacak from Youzu, and Felix D. Meyer from @cloudeteer, each bringing their own perspective on building and operating resilient AI infrastructure. In his talk, “Do we really need all those GPUs?”, Dave will explore how organisations can run AI workloads efficiently across distributed compute - without defaulting to high-cost GPU clusters. Looking forward to having @ArthurPoot as moderator, organiser of the excellent AI Builders community events we spoke at earlier this year. Thank you to the Leaseweb team for bringing the Berlin AI community together. We'd love for you to join us, register for free here: luma.com/klg1zbe2 #Leaseweb #AIInfrastructure #AICommunity

AI adoption at scale requires a fundamental shift in approach. Tool-first thinking creates friction at every level: teams waste time on integration overhead, leadership makes strategic decisions based on inaccurate perceptions, and costs compound invisibly across organisations, eroding competitive advantage. The organisations extracting genuine value are those that have flipped the model entirely, designing solutions within an operational context rather than in isolation. As AI capabilities increasingly move into production deployment, this shift is what will separate sustainable acceleration from compounding inefficiency. We’ve explored what a disciplined approach to AI adoption actually demands: newsroom.stelia.ai/the-hidden-cos… #EnterpriseAI #AIAdoption #AIStrategy #TechLeadership

The @nebiusai GTC Watch Party in Berlin kicked off with a betting pool on what would be announced within Jensen Huang's @NVIDIAGTC keynote in San Jose. Predictions ranged from the number of times AI would be mentioned to whether robotics, new architectures or hyperscaler partnerships would dominate the @NVIDIAAI keynote. The bets weren't far off with Huang reinforcing the rise of AI factories, agentic systems, and physical AI; providing a deeper look at the Vera Rubin platform; teasing what's next with Feynman; and reiterating just how quickly global demand for compute is accelerating. What nobody bet on: that @Disney's Olaf the snowman would end up centre stage and steal the headlines. A more in-depth analysis of NVIDIA GTC 2026 is coming next week from our team on the ground in San Jose. #NVIDIAGTC #AIInfrastructure #AIecosystem

In the race to productionise AI, storage decisions are often optimised for immediate results and speed-to-market alone. But designing production-grade AI systems demands building for long-term dependability with resilient, battle-tested foundations. In our Principal Architect's recent article, he examines why @ceph – a community-governed distributed storage platform built to scale linearly with demand and recover autonomously under failure – reflects exactly that kind of thinking. Read the full piece here: newsroom.stelia.ai/why-we-chose-c… #AIstorage #AIinfrastructure #Ceph #opensource #AIengineering

New Stelia merch has landed. And we've levelled up. It's been a pleasure rolling this out to the team via our Stelia Swag store and seeing it in the wild. Looking forward to sharing more sightings soon. In the meantime, we've had a surprising number of questions about public rollout. All we can say is watch this space…

@NVIDIAGTC has officially kicked off. And while Stelia CTO David Hughes and Principal Platform Engineer Lukas Stockner are on the ground in San Jose, on the other side of the world, our Berlin team are tuning in from the @nebiusai GTC watch party. We're looking forward to another week of connecting with the AI ecosystem leaders, and hearing what's next from Jensen Huang’s keynote. Check out our look-back from GTC 2025 and what's changed in the industry here: newsroom.stelia.ai/gtc-2025-to-no… To meet with the Stelia team on the ground, sign up here: mailchi.mp/3cbe3779c2e0/s…

Later this month, Stelia’s engineering team will be connecting with industry leaders at @cloudfest in none other than Europa-Park, Germany. With a great line-up of speakers - like Soeren von Varchmin and Christian Jaeger, @rogerrohatgi from Chai, Rebecca Hinds from @glean and Ram Mohan from @IdentityDig - Stelia's Lukas Stockner and Peter Bangert will be joining the community to discuss sustainability, resilience and ethics. We look forward to seeing you there! #CloudFest26 #cloudcomputing

Next week, Stelia’s engineering team will be heading to OC3, organised by @EdgelessSystems in Berlin. With speakers from @nvidia, @Microsoft, @AnthropicAI, @googlecloud, @OVHcloud and Amutable, we look forward to diving into the latest developments in the landscape of confidential computing alongside the open-source community. The team will be joining discussions in the development and operation of technologies at the core of confidential computing, such as secure enclaves and trusted execution environments, and why owner-controlled computing is imperative to enabling truly confidential computing.

Stelia is driven by the expertise of its engineers, architects, and applied AI specialists; the people whose thinking underpins everything we build. In our new series of interviews, we'll be bringing that expertise to the fore. This week, we spoke to Paul Heathcote, our VP of Applied AI, on the state of the applied AI market. Read the first in our new series spotlighting the people behind the AI here: newsroom.stelia.ai/openclaw-front…

Are you heading to @NVIDIAGTC next month? We're excited to connect with leaders across the AI ecosystem about what's next in frontier AI architecture, agentic systems, and governance at scale. Sign up to meet Stelia here: mailchi.mp/3cbe3779c2e0/s… #AIecosystem #NVIDIAGTC

How are real-time inference demands from agentic and physical AI driving different requirements in large-scale deployment architectures? Our CTO David Hughesexplored this topic at @aicampai last month, and will be digging further into this area next week at @aibuildersclub. Register here to join us: luma.com/london-mar5 And watch Dave's full AICamp session on demand here: youtube.com/watch?v=CmcU5I… #AIinference #edgeAI #agenticAI #physicalAI

Next week, the Stelia engineering team will be in Munich joining @RedHat, @AMD, @MistralAI, and @croz_hr for the @vllm_project Inference Meetup. We look forward to connecting with our peers in the AI community and contributing to discussions on large-scale GenAI inference, performance optimisation, and real-time production deployment. #AIInference #GenAI #AIEcosystem #AICommunity

@AspiaSpace selects Stelia as a strategic technology partner to advance AI architecture for global-scale land intelligence. Read the full announcement here: newsroom.stelia.ai/aspia-space-pa… #landintelligence #space #geospatial #AI #AIsystems #earthobservationdata

As AI moves from experimental pilots into production-critical applications, one question dominates: how do you scale reliably? Stelia CTO Dave Hughes considers why the answer isn't what conventional market rhetoric suggests. Effective scaling doesn't begin with infrastructure capacity; it begins with understanding application behaviour. Read our latest article to learn why understanding application behaviour is the prerequisite for effectively operationalising AI: newsroom.stelia.ai/why-understand… #AIapplications #AIInfrastructure #EnterpriseAI

We are pleased to share that Stelia’s VP of Media and Entertainment, Ula Nairne, has been invited to attend the @elevenlabs Summit in London next week. She'll be joining technology leaders from companies such as @Klarna, @supercell and @confluentinc, shaping the future of intelligent agents, with in-depth discussions on emerging architectures and real-world deployments. #ElevenLabsSummit #AgenticAI

Last week, Stelia's CTO, Dave Hughes and Principal Engineer, Lukas Stockner, presented to the brilliant open-source community at @fosdem. You can see the full recording here: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/… The room was packed out for their deep-dive session on how to build production-grade cloud infrastructure for AI workloads. As proud contributors to the open-source community, this is always an excellent event to attend with high-quality content. This year didn't disappoint. Looking forward to our next talk at Kickstart Europe in Amsterdam this week. #opensource #aiinfrastructure #aiworkloads

Great to take part in @aicampai last week, as our CTO shared lessons learned from running AI workloads in production. Thank you to @aicampai and @CivoCloud for hosting, and to everyone who joined us. If you couldn't attend, you can watch the recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=CmcU5I… And read our breakdown of Dave's key insights here: newsroom.stelia.ai/what-productio…

We're pleased to announce that Stelia's CTO, David Hughes, and Principal Platform Engineer, Lukas Stockner, have been invited to speak at @fosdem. Their talk will focus on building cloud infrastructure for AI applications, exploring the reality behind "GPU cloud", how requirements differ from traditional cloud infrastructure, and what's involved in building your own using open-source technology. Sign up to attend the event here: lnkd.in/e9qRZ3YU #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource #AICommunity

What does @Google's launch of the Universal Commerce Protocol, a new open standard for agentic commerce, mean beyond the announcement? Stelia's Chief Growth Officer, Dave Joshua, sat down with Michael Dobell (Entrepreneur & advisor, Vice-Chair of SoDA, and Monks Co-Founder) to discuss the implications of such a merchant-centric move, and its interesting second-order effects.