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AMD Ross Brings an Agentic AI Assistant to Embedded Design, Starting With Vivado and Vitis HLS, 20-Plus Open Agent Skills, and Monthly Releases

AMD introduced AMD Ross, an agentic AI assistant built to run alongside the tools embedded developers already use, from system architecture and schematic review through FPGA and algorithm design, embedded software, AI inference, debugging, and deployment. The assistant targets the whole AMD Embedded portfolio, FPGAs, adaptive SoCs, x86 embedded processors, and edge AI platforms, by

Everpure FlashBlade//E chassis front view with the orange Pure logo on the bezel above a row of DirectFlash modules, the platform that gets PureKVA and always-on DeepReduce
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Everpure Adds PureKVA to FlashBlade, Claims Up to 20x Faster Time to First Token, and Makes DeepReduce Always-On

Everpure announced a set of platform capabilities aimed at getting enterprise AI out of pilots and into production, all of them due in October. The headline is PureKVA (Key-Value Accelerator) for FlashBlade, which pre-stages inference context directly into GPU memory and, by Everpure’s count, delivers up to 20x faster Time to First Token. Alongside it

AMD and World Labs logos side by side over a dark globe of connected points, the announcement graphic for AMD's agreement to acquire World Labs
AI  ◇  Enterprise

AMD to Acquire World Labs for $8.2B in Stock, With Fei-Fei Li Joining as Chief Scientist

AMD has signed a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco spatial-intelligence company co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction AMD values at approximately $8.2 billion. AMD expects the deal to close by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Dr. Li will join AMD

ServerPartDeals Storinator drive test wall behind the title of StorageReview Podcast #153 with CEO Max Manekia
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Podcast #153: ServerPartDeals CEO Max Manekia on Refurbished Drives as Supply Chain Strategy

Brian recently sat down with Max Manekia, CEO of ServerPartDeals, at the company’s facility in Sanford, Florida, on the same trip that produced our ServerPartDeals facility tour. We’ve been a ServerPartDeals customer for years. Brian put them on our drive leaderboard not long after they opened their doors in 2010, and our 2025 look at

Simplyblock OpenShift Data Resiliency diagram mapping node failure, zone outage, and planned upgrade through the NVMe/TCP resiliency engine to low RPO, fast RTO, and stable p99 outcomes, Simplyblock graphic
Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Simplyblock OpenShift Virtualization Storage Adds Built-In Zero-RPO Metro Replication, One-Minute Async DR, and S3 Backup

Simplyblock is building business continuity and storage-level disaster recovery into its software-defined storage platform for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and OpenShift Container Platform, with no separately licensed DR product on top. The platform now ships with synchronous stretch-cluster replication for zero-RPO metro deployments, asynchronous replication with RPOs as low as one minute, automated failback, live

Google Cloud console showing the Storage Intelligence advisor dashboard for a 6.765TiB project with 329 buckets, top findings by category, and flagged spikes in cross-region egress and bytes stored above trend
Cloud  ◇  Enterprise

Google Cloud Storage Intelligence Advisor Is GA, With 24-Hour Anomaly Findings and Batch Jobs Across 1,000 Buckets

Google Cloud has made its Storage Intelligence advisor generally available and expanded batch operations for Google Cloud Storage. The advisor monitors storage environments for operational anomalies, while the enhanced batch engine applies policy changes to up to 1,000 buckets per project in a single managed job. Both features are now available to all Storage Intelligence

IBM LinuxONE 5 system in a three-quarter view with its angled front panels and IBM branding, one of the two platforms that host the IBM Digital Asset Haven on-premises beta
Enterprise  ◇  Software

IBM Digital Asset Haven Goes On-Premises on IBM Z and LinuxONE in Beta, With an ISO 20022 Adapter Into Swift’s Shared Ledger

IBM has added two beta capabilities to IBM Digital Asset Haven, its digital asset platform for banks, governments, and other regulated organizations: an on-premises deployment that runs entirely inside a client’s own data center on IBM Z or IBM LinuxONE, and connectivity to permissioned blockchain networks, starting with Swift’s blockchain-based shared ledger. The Swift piece