Micron has announced a strategic agreement with Anthropic focused on AI memory and storage architecture, long-term component supply, enterprise deployment of Anthropic’s Claude models within Micron, and participation in Anthropic’s Series H funding round. The partnership aligns infrastructure development more closely with the requirements of large-scale AI training and inference environments. The companies plan to
For most of the last decade, the high-core workstation conversation has been largely led by AMD. Threadripper PRO pushed core counts, cache, and PCIe lanes past what Intel’s Xeon-W line could offer; the prior Xeon-W flagship topped out at 60 cores, while AMD kept climbing. Intel’s Xeon 600 series, launched in February of this year,
As quantum computing continues its transition from research labs to practical computing environments, AMD and IBM are positioning themselves around a common vision: hybrid computing architectures that combine quantum processors, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI into a unified platform. Recent disclosures from both companies outline a growing partnership focused on building the infrastructure required to
At ISC High Performance 2026 in Hamburg, VDURA is showcasing three major platform updates designed to improve storage operations and data pipeline performance for AI and HPC environments. The company unveiled a next-generation multi-tenant control plane, enhanced S3 performance capabilities, and native S3 object tagging support, all scheduled for general availability in the second half
Virtuozzo has announced that Virtuozzo Storage has achieved Veeam Ready certification as an object storage backup target and is now listed in the Veeam Ready database. The certification validates interoperability and performance requirements for use with Veeam’s object storage capabilities. It allows customers to use Virtuozzo Storage as a certified backup repository while maintaining existing
CGI and NetApp have expanded their global alliance partnership, with NetApp Keystone set to power CGI’s block storage solutions within its shared services platform. The move deepens the companies’ existing relationship and is designed to help organizations modernize IT infrastructure, improve data management, and advance AI initiatives across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. Under
IBM has announced the general availability of three new IBM Z software offerings that strengthen security operations, simplify certificate management, and improve database administration through AI-assisted automation. The releases reflect IBM’s continued focus on supporting mission-critical workloads running on IBM Z and LinuxONE environments as enterprises address increasingly complex security, compliance, and operational requirements.
AMD announced that its Spartan UltraScale+ SU200P FPGA will enter volume production in July 2026. The SU200P is the largest device in the Spartan UltraScale+ family. It expands AMD’s cost-optimized FPGA portfolio with a combination of high I/O density, low power operation, flexible connectivity, and integrated security features designed for long-lifecycle deployments. Built on a
CloudCasa by Catalogic has introduced CloudCasa Disaster Recovery (CloudCasa DR) for Kubernetes, powered by HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. The new offering extends CloudCasa’s Kubernetes data protection portfolio with orchestrated disaster recovery capabilities designed for Kubernetes applications and KubeVirt virtual machines deployed across HPE and hybrid cloud environments. The announcement builds on CloudCasa’s existing support
The HighPoint Rocket 1604L is a $399 PCIe Gen5 x16 add-in card that carries four M.2 NVMe SSDs, each on a dedicated Gen5 x4 connection. In our testing with four Samsung 9100 PRO 4TB drives installed, the card sustained 55.6GB/s of 128K sequential read bandwidth and 10.1 million 4K random write IOPS, numbers that are
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