At HPE Discover 2026, HPE announced a series of enhancements to its AI infrastructure portfolio to help enterprises operationalize agentic AI with greater governance, security, and scalability. The updates expand HPE AI Factory offerings within the NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio and focus on moving AI initiatives from pilot projects into production environments. The

HPE has announced that it has expanded its collaborations with eight quantum technology companies as it works to develop hybrid computing environments that combine high-performance computing (HPC) and quantum systems. The effort is designed to accelerate the development of practical classical-quantum workflows and support future large-scale scientific and industrial applications. Building on its position as

At Cisco Live, Cisco introduced Cisco Cloud Control, a unified management platform intended to bring networking, security, compute, observability, and collaboration into a single operational plane. The company positions the platform as the foundation of its broader AgenticOps model, in which human operators and AI agents work from the same data, telemetry, and policy context

NetApp and Cisco have introduced an expanded set of FlexPod-validated solutions to simplify the deployment of secure, scalable AI infrastructure. The announcement builds on the long-standing FlexPod partnership, positioning the platform as a pre-validated foundation for organizations looking to address the performance, data management, and security demands of modern AI workloads. The companies are targeting

ZutaCore has secured $100 million in Series C funding, with participation from Mitsubishi Electric, Carrier Ventures, Samsung Electronics, and others through its corporate venture arm, Samsung Ventures. The investment is aimed at accelerating global commercialization, expanding deployments, and advancing research and development as demand for high-density AI and HPC infrastructure continues to rise. The funding

IBM and Red Hat have expanded their enterprise security strategy with two announcements in quick succession: joining Anthropic’s Project Glasswing on May 19 and introducing Project Lightwell on May 28, aligning large-scale engineering investment with industry collaboration to address growing risks in open-source and AI-driven environments. IBM and Red Hat Launch Project Lightwell Project Lightwell

At the Mistral AI NOW Summit, VAST Data outlined its partnership with Mistral AI and Mistral Compute, detailing a joint effort to deploy NVIDIA-accelerated AI factories in Europe. The collaboration aligns three core layers required for production AI: NVIDIA accelerated compute, Mistral’s frontier models, and the VAST AI Operating System as the unified data platform.

Verda, a European AI cloud provider, has selected Supermicro’s liquid-cooled, NVIDIA Blackwell-accelerated rack-scale systems to power a vertically integrated AI cloud built for frontier model developers, AI-native scaleups, and regulated enterprises. The infrastructure is being deployed across Europe and serves customers in Europe, the United States, and Asia. At the core of the deployment is

AMD announced that its next-generation EPYC processor, codenamed “Venice,” has entered production on TSMC’s 2nm process in Taiwan. The company also plans to expand manufacturing at TSMC’s Arizona facility, signaling a broader strategy to diversify its advanced-node capacity and scale supply for cloud and AI deployments. “Venice” is positioned as the first HPC-class processor to