Cloudera and VAST Data have entered into a partnership to build a unified AI factory architecture for enterprises running continuous AI training, inference, and analytics workloads. The joint offering combines Cloudera’s containerized data services with the VAST AI Operating System, targeting a problem that has become increasingly common in enterprise AI deployments: expensive GPU clusters

IBM has expanded its Power server lineup with new software to automate infrastructure management and application development. The announcements include IBM Power Autonomous Operations, an agentic control layer for system management, and the IBM Bob Premium Package for i, an AI-driven development assistant for IBM i environments. IBM also introduced the Power S1112, a compact

Supermicro has introduced Kubernetes Edge AI Appliances, developed in partnership with Red Hat and Everpure. The pre-integrated systems combine Supermicro edge servers, Red Hat OpenShift, and the Portworx by Everpure Kubernetes data management platform to support AI inference, containers, and virtual machines across distributed sites. The offering is positioned as a validated, software-preloaded deployment model

WhiteFiber has disclosed initial R&D results for Project Redwood, a distributed GPU supercluster architecture designed to operate across geographically separated data centers. Announced last week, the test delivered 111.2 Tbps of throughput over 83 km of dark fiber, with a guaranteed round-trip latency of 0.9 ms. WhiteFiber said the latency is within 8% of the

The Intel Arc Pro B70 is the most capable and promising deskside AI card Intel has shipped, but at times, it is also the most frustrating. Intel set the list price at $949 for 32GB of GDDR6 when it launched in March of this year. However, the memory crunch squeezing the whole market has pushed

Samsung’s new 990 SSD joins the consumer lineup as a mainstream PCIe Gen4 drive that prioritizes efficiency and value over raw speed. Samsung calls it its most power-efficient SSD to date, claiming up to 38% better power efficiency than the 990 PRO. The 2TB model is rated at 7,250MB/s sequential read and 6,450MB/s write, with random

Brian connected with HPE’s Dan Gardner to follow up on HPE Discover and go into more detail on the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.  Dan is the Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and considers himself a security nerd. Dan joined HP in 2017 in hardware technical support, then moved into a

At the RAISE Summit in Paris, DDN highlighted its ongoing collaboration with Nebul, a European sovereign-hybrid cloud provider, focused on improving the efficiency of large-scale AI inference deployments. Announced last week, the effort combines Nebul’s inference platform, DDN’s Infinia data intelligence architecture, and NVIDIA accelerated computing to address a growing production AI constraint: the cost

DeepInfra has opened a new AI data center in Toronto, marking the company’s first deployment outside the United States and its ninth facility overall. Announced July 8, the site expands DeepInfra’s global inference infrastructure as demand shifts from AI model training toward production inference workloads. The Toronto facility provides 1.7 MW of capacity and will