Cigent Software Full Drive Encryption and its command line interface have received Intel vPro Certified App status, Intel’s validation that a background application meets its power and performance targets on vPro business PCs. Cigent’s software is a CSfC-listed encryption component used in NSA Commercial Solutions for Classified data-at-rest architectures, so the certification speaks to a
The Dell XPS 16 Creator Edition is the first XPS built on NVIDIA’s RTX Spark N1X. Dell houses the chip in what it calls its thinnest high-performance XPS yet: a 17.8mm CNC aluminum chassis with a 3.2K Tandem OLED touch panel, a 99Wh battery, three USB4 ports, HDMI 2.1b, and a full-size SD reader. Our
The biggest AI infrastructure decision many enterprises make in the next year won’t be a GPU investment; it will be a database upgrade. Oracle AI Database 26ai is the long-term support release Oracle is steering its 19c installed base toward. 26ai puts vector search in the same engine that holds transactions. When the vector index
AMD says the first AMD Helios rackscale systems are installed and under test at Meta, with a broader deployment to follow, and that the two companies have aligned product roadmaps around Meta’s workloads across EPYC CPUs, Instinct GPUs, Pensando networking, and ROCm. The same announcement puts EPYC behind Meta’s Muse personal AI agent, adds Day-0
NVIDIA and Oracle plan to expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Superclusters with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to multi-gigawatt scale, and both Vera Rubin NVL72 and NVIDIA Vera CPUs are now generally available on OCI. The companies announced the pair at Oracle AI World. The expansion is a plan; the general availability is the part
IBM FlashSystem 5600, 7600, and 9600 arrays built on the fifth-generation IBM FlashCore Module now detect data exfiltration inside the drive, next to the ransomware encryption detection the modules already run. IBM says the module learns each volume’s normal read pattern, flags reads that break from it, and confirms a suspected event over a 30-minute
Seagate announced that its Mozaic hard drives built on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and configured for shingled magnetic recording (SMR) have been added to Broadcom’s approved vendor list for its host bus adapters, which Seagate calls the first and only SMR drives on the list. Microsoft Azure Storage has qualified the Broadcom HBA with Seagate
Ollama 0.40.11 gives Windows users a desktop chat application and a local model runtime for other software. Ollama has also moved beyond its original command-line interface, adding a searchable model selector, image attachments, and links to coding tools. Some controls we needed for testing still live in PowerShell and model configuration files. We installed Ollama
The Samsung Portable SSD P9 is the company’s first USB4 portable drive, rated at 4,000MB/s read and 3,800MB/s write. That’s double the T9 it sits above. It ships in 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB capacities; the 8TB is Samsung’s first USB4 portable SSD at that size, and the 2TB unit we tested sells for $649.99
Vertiv announced SmartIT, a pre-engineered rack architecture that packages the rack, DC power conversion and distribution, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, in-rack coolant distribution, and monitoring into a factory-validated unit for NVIDIA MGX and OCP ORV3 systems. The supported list is NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, Vera Rubin NVL72, DGX Rubin NVL8, and HGX Rubin NVL8, and the product
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