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Kimi Antonelli's Mercedes W17 outside the garage at COTA between FP1 and FP2, mechanics working around the car in the Austin livery
Enterprise  ◇  Server

Inside Mercedes F1’s COTA 2026 Race Weekend With HPE: The Car Is Never Finished

Kimi Antonelli won the United States Grand Prix from pole on a one-stop, beating Charles Leclerc by 13.078 seconds with Max Verstappen third; the pit wall held against Verstappen’s two-stop undercut. Ferrari had owned the timing sheets until then, Leclerc fastest in Friday’s second practice and Lewis Hamilton in Saturday’s final session, so the Mercedes

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Spectra Logic Storage Reclaim Packages Tape, BlackPearl, and Data Movers Into Six Configurations From 1PB to 24PB to Free Flash

Spectra Logic today announced availability of Spectra Storage Reclaim, a packaged combination of analysis software, data movers, BlackPearl object storage, tape, and services that finds inactive unstructured data on flash and disk arrays and moves it to tape so the primary capacity can go back to active workloads. The pitch is timed to the flash

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Dell Ships Quantum-Safe Fibre Channel Encryption on PowerStore in November, Adds Identity Recovery and AI Factory Hardening to PowerProtect

Dell Technologies today expanded its cyber resilience portfolio across AI environments, identity systems, and storage infrastructure. The piece that matters most for storage buyers is now a date: the next Dell PowerStore software release, due in November, adds quantum-safe encryption of data in flight over Fibre Channel when paired with supported PowerEdge servers. Around it

Cisco IQ diagram showing advisories, troubleshooting guides, and field notices feeding predictive asset insights, infrastructure assessments, AI-powered troubleshooting, and personalized learning
Enterprise  ◇  Networking

Cisco IQ Goes GA for Partners With an MCP Server, Model Foundry, and a Quantum-Resilient Wi-Fi 7 AP

Cisco today made Cisco IQ generally available to partners at Cisco Partner Summit in Vancouver, opening the support platform’s telemetry and automation to partner workflows through a Cisco IQ MCP Server, expanded API access, and role-based access control that lets a customer grant its partner direct visibility into its installed base. Cisco says the platform

Smartbird x WEKA partnership graphic with the two logos over a blue data wave
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Dedicated Smartbird AI Clusters Integrate WEKA NeuralMesh for Managed Enterprise AI

Smartbird and WEKA have announced a partnership that puts WEKA NeuralMesh inside Smartbird’s dedicated AI clusters, sold as a managed service for enterprise AI workloads. Smartbird designs, builds, and operates each cluster for a single customer’s workloads, on-premises or in a dedicated colocation facility, and the companies describe the result as sovereign by design, with

NVIDIA Minerva AIOps dashboards showing an anomaly timeline, a job failure investigation, and a GPU topology map in front of AI factory racks
Enterprise  ◇  Software

NVIDIA Minerva Brings AIOps to AI Factories Through Dell, Lenovo, and Supermicro

NVIDIA announced Minerva at GTC Berlin, an AIOps platform that pulls telemetry from GPUs, networking, storage, schedulers, and the AI workloads running on them, then applies machine learning to find a degrading component before it slows a training job. Dell Technologies, Lenovo, and Supermicro will offer it in their AI factory operations portfolios, IREN is

Intel Xeon 6 processor on anti-static foam in the StorageReview lab, one of the two x86 CPU families that oneDNN will cover for PyTorch
Enterprise  ◇  Software

AMD and Intel Make oneDNN the Default x86 Path in PyTorch, Folding ZenDNN In and Lining Up AI Compute Extensions

AMD and Intel announced that they will combine their x86 CPU optimization work for PyTorch in oneDNN, the open-source deep learning library governed by the Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL), and have aligned on it as the default open-source library for x86 acceleration inside PyTorch. AMD is folding its ZenDNN optimizations into oneDNN and has joined

NVIDIA render of a Vera CPU rack with a compute tray pulled out in front, showing the processor sockets on the tray
AI  ◇  Enterprise

Supermicro NVIDIA Vera CPU Rack: 256 Vera CPUs, 400TB of LPDDR5X, and 22,500 Agent Sandboxes in a 208kW Liquid-Cooled 48U

Supermicro announced the NVIDIA Vera CPU rack today, a 48U, 100 percent liquid-cooled rack that holds 256 NVIDIA Vera CPUs, 22,528 cores, and 45,056 threads and that Supermicro rates for up to 22,500 concurrent agent sandboxes. It is the newest member of the Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) portfolio, built to run beside the