Mini PCs have become one of the more important segments of the client computing market. They anchor fleets of clutter-free office desks, drive digital signage and kiosks, and increasingly sit at the edge running inference close to cameras and sensors where cloud round-trips are too slow or too expensive. What the category has lacked until
QNAP has introduced the TS-h966TX, a compact 9-bay NAS that pairs five 3.5-inch SATA bays with four 2.5-inch U.2 NVMe bays and puts dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, 10GbE, and 2.5GbE on the back of a tower that QNAP says is 36% smaller than its previous HDD-based 6-bay Thunderbolt 4 NAS models. It runs a 6-core
HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 Release 4 is now generally available, and it delivers the scale-out HPE previewed at its GreenLake update in May: a single cluster now runs up to 16 nodes and 16 JBOFs, roughly twice the performance and twice the capacity of the prior release, and scales to approximately 23PB of raw
CTERA has launched the CTERA Data Archiving Solution, which pairs its InsightAI data service with CTERA Archive so the platform can recommend which files to move off primary storage and then execute the move under retention policy and an audit trail. It’s the product follow-through to the Cold Data Storage Report CTERA published a day
Lenovo has added the ThinkAgile VX850 V4 to its virtualization lineup, a four-socket node it describes as purpose-built for highly virtualized and demanding in-memory workloads, and paired the launch with a three-tier deployment service framework and a set of pre-validated Top Choice Express bundles spanning Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE, and Nutanix. The announcement follows Lenovo’s
TrueNAS has released a native Proxmox VE storage plugin that lets Proxmox provision and manage VM disks directly on TrueNAS systems. A disk requested in Proxmox becomes an OpenZFS zvol on TrueNAS 25.10 or later, published as an iSCSI LUN or an NVMe/TCP namespace, and the plugin handles creation, snapshots, resizing, migration, and deletion from
CoreWeave has deployed a multi-rack NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 cluster on CoreWeave Cloud, connecting hundreds of Rubin GPUs into a single scale-out environment aimed at agentic AI workloads. Each Dell-built rack carries 72 Rubin GPUs, 36 Vera CPUs, NVLink 6 as the scale-up fabric, BlueField-4 DPUs, and two ConnectX-9 SuperNICs per GPU, and the racks
MLCommons has published MLPerf Inference v6.1, and the round sets a participation record with 30 submitting organizations and 486 datacenter and edge results. Two new tests join the suite: an End-to-End RAG pipeline for the datacenter and an Edge Agentic Inference benchmark for single-user devices, and the results carry the first peer-reviewed numbers for NVIDIA’s
HP’s ZBook Ultra G1a 14 holds the Best for Large Models spot on our Best Laptops for Local AI leaderboard because its 128GB of unified memory, 96GB of it assignable to the GPU, loaded models no discrete-GPU laptop could touch. The new HP ZBook Ultra G3a 16 raises that pool to 192GB with up to
Micron has demonstrated a 512GB DDR5 RDIMM running on multiple server platforms, which it calls the world’s first module at that capacity, and says AMD and Intel are both validating it for their next-generation server platforms. The module is rated for speeds up to 9,200 MT/s, and in a 24-slot dual-socket server it puts 12TB
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