Microsoft and 3M have announced a strategic partnership covering both data center optical connectivity and enterprise AI adoption. Under the July 15 agreement, Azure becomes the first announced hyperscale cloud provider to deploy 3M’s Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) technology across its data centers, while 3M adopts Microsoft’s AI and digital platforms across several of its
NVIDIA has disclosed a comprehensive multi-track strategy to accelerate AI adoption in Japan, combining a new national AI infrastructure buildout with a broad ecosystem of industry-specific models and specialized edge hardware. The strategy moves Japan toward a unified platform approach that addresses localized language requirements, demographic shifts, and industrial workflows across the robotics, healthcare, and
Axelera AI has launched Voyager Wingman, an AI-powered assistant designed to accelerate development with its Voyager Toolkit. The tool was first shown at CES in January and has since undergone extensive testing ahead of this broader release. Wingman lets developers use natural language to query the Voyager SDK and Axelera’s full documentation set, helping them
Supermicro has expanded its Data Center Building Block Solutions liquid cooling lineup with a ten-model Rear Door Heat Exchanger (RDHx) portfolio, spanning 10kW to 120kW of cooling capacity at the door level and up to 240kW at the rack level. The expanded portfolio is aimed at data center operators who need a fast, low-disruption path
Cloudera and VAST Data have entered into a partnership to build a unified AI factory architecture for enterprises running continuous AI training, inference, and analytics workloads. The joint offering combines Cloudera’s containerized data services with the VAST AI Operating System, targeting a problem that has become increasingly common in enterprise AI deployments: expensive GPU clusters
IBM has expanded its Power server lineup with new software to automate infrastructure management and application development. The announcements include IBM Power Autonomous Operations, an agentic control layer for system management, and the IBM Bob Premium Package for i, an AI-driven development assistant for IBM i environments. IBM also introduced the Power S1112, a compact
Supermicro has introduced Kubernetes Edge AI Appliances, developed in partnership with Red Hat and Everpure. The pre-integrated systems combine Supermicro edge servers, Red Hat OpenShift, and the Portworx by Everpure Kubernetes data management platform to support AI inference, containers, and virtual machines across distributed sites. The offering is positioned as a validated, software-preloaded deployment model
WhiteFiber has disclosed initial R&D results for Project Redwood, a distributed GPU supercluster architecture designed to operate across geographically separated data centers. Announced last week, the test delivered 111.2 Tbps of throughput over 83 km of dark fiber, with a guaranteed round-trip latency of 0.9 ms. WhiteFiber said the latency is within 8% of the
The Intel Arc Pro B70 is the most capable and promising deskside AI card Intel has shipped, but at times, it is also the most frustrating. Intel set the list price at $949 for 32GB of GDDR6 when it launched in March of this year. However, the memory crunch squeezing the whole market has pushed
Samsung’s new 990 SSD joins the consumer lineup as a mainstream PCIe Gen4 drive that prioritizes efficiency and value over raw speed. Samsung calls it its most power-efficient SSD to date, claiming up to 38% better power efficiency than the 990 PRO. The 2TB model is rated at 7,250MB/s sequential read and 6,450MB/s write, with random
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