Name: Reimagining DPUs for Storage Control and End-to-End Confidential AI - Jitendra Singh & Anshuman Ghosh, Microsoft
Start: 2026-10-15T09:15:00-0700
End: 2026-10-15T09:40:00-0700

October 15, 2026 | San Jose, CA.
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Reimagining DPUs for Storage Control and End-to-End Confidential AI - Jitendra Singh & Anshuman Ghosh, Microsoft

Thursday October 15, 2026 9:15am - 9:40am PDT

Bowsers Institute Room

AI infrastructure is rapidly exposing new limitations in traditional cloud architectures. As models scale, the challenge is no longer limited to computation. Model checkpoints, embeddings, vector indexes, prompts, KV caches, and inference data must move efficiently and securely across storage, networks, processors, and accelerators.
Historically, DPUs have been used to offload networking, storage, and security functions from host CPUs. However, the next evolution of programmable infrastructure is far more significant. DPUs are emerging as intelligent infrastructure components that can actively participate in storage control, data movement, policy enforcement, tenant isolation, attestation, and trusted execution workflows.
This session explores how DPUs are evolving from infrastructure accelerators into foundational building blocks for AI-native and security-first platforms. We examine emerging architectures where DPUs enable disaggregated storage, optimize storage-to-accelerator data paths, and establish verifiable trust across AI infrastructure. The talk explores how emerging DPU architectures can provide a common control and security layer across storage, networking, and AI infrastructure, enabling more trusted and scalable AI platforms. Attendees will gain insight into the future role of DPUs in storage architectures, confidential AI deployments, trusted data movement, along with key challenges and opportunities shaping the next generation of programmable infrastructure.

Speakers

Jitendra Singh

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Jitendra Singh is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft India with 10+ years of experience, following his tenure at IBM R&D India Software Labs. He specializes in developing cutting-edge solutions for hybrid, multicloud, storage, and edge deployments, including expertise in data... Read More →

Anshuman Ghosh

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Thursday October 15, 2026 9:15am - 9:40am PDT
Bowsers Institute Room

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Jitendra Singh

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OPI Summit on DPUs/IPUs 2026

Jitendra Singh

Anshuman Ghosh

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