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
Zella Stack Micro Data Center Ships by Courier, Stacks From 24RU to 48RU, and Cools Up to 124kW
Zella DC used Yotta 2026 in Las Vegas to introduce Zella Stack, an indoor micro data center that ships by standard courier and is assembled on site from stackable blocks. A base block carries the supporting infrastructure, IT blocks go on top of it, and the cabinet starts at 24RU and grows in 12RU increments
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 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
Dell PowerStoreOS 5.0 Deep Dive: The Software Half of the Elite Reset
When we went deep on Dell PowerStore Gen 3 earlier this year, the story was hardware, and there was plenty of it. Dell rebuilt the platform from the chassis up: 40 E3.S NVMe bays in 3U with no slots burned on cache, a 200GbE RDMA midplane between controllers that is decoupled from CPU generations, Software-Defined
DGX Spark Shared Storage: Bringing Deskside AI Back Under Data Center Governance
Deskside AI systems built on NVIDIA’s GB10 have one job, and they do it well: put 128GB of unified memory and a petaflop of compute on a desk close enough to the person using it that iteration is instant. What they don’t have is a connection to the storage an organization already runs. Every DGX
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 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 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 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




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