Dell Technologies closed the first quarter of 2026 as the top external enterprise storage vendor worldwide, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker released in June, posting 31.2% market share on 40.8% year-over-year growth, nearly double the 22.7% pace of the overall segment. By IDC’s count, the rest of the top five vendors

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