Brian hosted Patrick Osborne, Senior Vice President of Hybrid Cloud Technology Acceleration at HPE, for a live podcast on LinkedIn on October 26. The subject was whether enterprise storage is ready for AI, and the answer ran through the Alletra Storage MP architecture decision HPE made five years ago, block storage’s second life under Oracle
Supermicro announced a KV cache storage solution with IBM and NVIDIA today that moves the key-value state behind long-context inference off the GPU and onto a shared all-flash tier. The package combines Supermicro Petascale storage servers on AMD EPYC 9005 processors, IBM Storage Scale, NVIDIA Dynamo, and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet, and the companies back it
IBM, AMD, and the Department of Energy’s Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveiled a co-design platform for quantum error correction today, built around quantum and classical hardware sitting in the same facility. At IBM’s quantum site in Poughkeepsie, New York, IBM quantum computers including the 120-qubit IBM Quantum Nighthawk processor are co-located
CoreWeave has brought most of its planned 22.5MW of IT capacity online at atNorth’s DEN01 data center in Copenhagen, its first deployment in Denmark, and is extending its Global AI Network backbone to seven markets in the Middle East and Asia Pacific. The new points of presence (PoPs) start coming online in the fourth quarter
SambaNova and Supermicro will build and sell disaggregated inference systems that pair NVIDIA GPUs with SambaNova’s SN50 Reconfigurable Dataflow Units (RDUs), with Supermicro initially planning for 10,000 SN50 chips. The racks join Supermicro’s Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) catalog, and Supermicro will integrate, test, deliver, and support them. Both companies describe the 10,000 chips
Broadcom today updated the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) portfolio with two new Advanced Services, VMware Live Recovery and VMware Compliance and Configuration Management, and introduced VMware vSphere Express, a 128-core package built on vSphere 9 for smaller environments. The update also lays out the next VCF release, planned for Broadcom’s fiscal first quarter of 2027,
Simplyblock’s Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver and Kubernetes operator now carry Red Hat certification and are listed in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog, which gives OpenShift Virtualization customers a validated storage layer for VMs moved off VMware vSphere. The software-defined platform runs on servers customers already own, provisions NVMe block volumes for containers and KubeVirt
The Dell Pro 5 Micro is Dell’s mainstream commercial mini PC for the Panther Lake generation, a 1.17-liter box that fits behind a monitor and ships with vPro, two SO-DIMM slots, two M.2 SSD slots, and a rear module bay for whatever legacy port a fleet still needs. Our review unit carries the Intel Core
The AMD Instinct MI350P is AMD’s first new PCIe Instinct GPU in four years, following the MI210 in 2022. It brings the company’s CDNA 4 architecture to a conventional add-in card, with up to 4.6 PFLOPS of MXFP4 performance, 144GB of HBM3E, and 4TB/s of memory bandwidth. All of that fits into a dual-slot, 600W
The BLUETTI Elite 400 is a 3.84 kWh portable power station intended for home backup, remote work, camping, and other applications where dependable power may not be nearby. Its 3,840Wh LiFePO₄ battery provides enough stored energy to do more than charge phones and laptops, with capacity to run equipment such as refrigerators, networking equipment, desktop
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