Oracle expands OCI with Acceleron networking and Snowflake

At its AI World conference, Oracle outlined broad updates to its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform, adding 850MW of data center capacity in the first quarter of fiscal 2027 and expanding its compute, networking, and data management capabilities. The company introduced new networking features in its Acceleron suite to improve AI cluster resilience, announced plans for Snowflake as a first-party OCI service, and revealed AI tools built with OpenAI. Analysts noted that while the expansion helps Oracle close the gap with larger cloud providers, the true test of these infrastructure and reliability updates will be whether entire enterprise AI services continue running smoothly during failures. Open article →