VMware Explore kicked off Monday morning, though the schedule felt unusual compared to past VMworld Explore events, as Broadcom moved the traditional opening keynote to the afternoon. That was not necessarily a bad thing, as it gave us time to catch a few breakout sessions and catch up with vendors on the show floor. In
Microsoft announced the general availability of GPT-6 Astra within Microsoft Foundry on Azure. The frontier model is engineered to transition enterprise generative AI from interactive chat interfaces toward autonomous agentic workflows, providing multi-step planning, deliberate decision support, and cross-application tool execution. OpenAI calls Astra its most aligned model to date, and Microsoft says it is
NVIDIA used IFA in Berlin to put Windows at the center of its local AI story. The company’s September 3 post covers a new Windows Agent framework for agents that run in the background under OS control, one-click Windows setups for OpenClaw and Nous Research’s Hermes Agent, a beta of an inference router called NVIDIA
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, a transaction that would extend the company’s position from accelerated compute and AI infrastructure into one of the industry’s most widely used platforms for open models, datasets, and application development. In an announcement published on the NVIDIA website, CEO Jensen Huang said the company plans
ASUS is expanding its role in AI infrastructure, moving from individual AI servers to platforms for building, deploying, and operating entire AI factories. At AI Tech 2026 in Seoul, the company laid out a broader strategy that brings accelerated computing, networking, storage, deployment software, infrastructure management, and AI governance together under one platform. That puts
AMD used its IFA 2026 opening keynote to reveal the Threadripper Halo Station, a liquid-cooled workstation pairing a 96-core Threadripper PRO with a pair of Instinct MI350P accelerators, and the pitch could not be more direct: this is AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s GB300 DGX Station. “This is the most powerful workstation in the world,” said
For two decades, the SSD-versus-HDD conversation ended the same way: flash wins on performance, disk wins on price per terabyte, and the size of that price gap settled the argument in favor of bulk storage. As storage technology has matured and AI has taken over, that framing is clearly out of date. The largest data
Equinix has expanded its partnership with NVIDIA and entered a new collaboration with Together AI to launch Equinix Inference Exchange. Designed as a distributed AI inference architecture for enterprise deployments, the platform aims to shift compute workloads closer to core data repositories, end users, and operational applications. Announced alongside Equinix Fabric One at the Equinix
Proxmox is making a major expansion to its enterprise operations, moving to 24/7 global support beginning October 19, 2026, while establishing a new North American subsidiary in Kingston, Ontario. The new support covers Proxmox Virtual Environment, Proxmox Backup Server, and Proxmox Datacenter Manager, giving enterprise customers direct access to Proxmox engineers at any time of
The KIOXIA CM9-R is the first enterprise SSD family built on eighth-generation BiCS FLASH, and the 15.36TB E3.S model in our lab is the volume sweet spot of the range: 3,400K random read IOPS and 14,800 MB/s of sequential read from a drive with a 25W typical active rating. Gen5 enterprise drives routinely push into
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