Broadcom announced VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, positioning the platform as a private cloud foundation optimized for production AI workloads. The release focuses on tighter integration of AI and Kubernetes, expanded hardware support across AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA, and embedded security capabilities designed for enterprise AI deployments. The update targets organizations running inference and emerging agentic

Proxmox has released Proxmox Backup Server 4.2, a new update built on Debian 13.4 “Trixie” with refreshed packages, improved hardware support, and security updates from the newer base system. The release also moves to Linux kernel 7.0 as the stable default and includes ZFS 2.4 for storage environments that rely on ZFS-backed infrastructure. The update

After publishing our article about Microsoft’s opt-in native NVMe feature on Windows Server 2025, we received multiple requests for a direct comparison of storage performance between Windows Server 2025 with native NVMe and a Linux-based server OS. One especially enthusiastic Redditor even offered us beer to do it! Since there were obviously no other reasonable options, we decided to

On December 15, 2025, Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2025 would finally adopt the NVMe standard natively in its storage architecture. However, NVMe storage has been a popular storage format on servers, enterprise workstations, and consumer PCs for many years, with OS compatibility built in since Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1. With this

MinIO has introduced two new subscription tiers for MinIO AIStor, Free and Enterprise Lite, expanding its portfolio beyond the existing AIStor Enterprise offering. The goal is to give organizations more flexibility in how they stand up an object-based data foundation for AI, whether they are in early experimentation or operating mission-critical, large-scale AI in production.

StorageReview has reclaimed a popular computational crown with a new pi record solve to 314 trillion digits. The modern π race has gone from cloud experiments to full-blown infrastructure flex. In 2022, Google Cloud pushed π to 100 trillion digits, running y-cruncher across a massive fleet of cloud instances and chewing through tens of petabytes

Proxmox has released the stable 1.0 version of Proxmox Datacenter Manager, a platform aimed at organizations that operate Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server across multiple sites or clusters. Many environments grow into structures that become difficult to coordinate, with metrics scattered across nodes and operational tasks handled separately. Managing clusters spread across diverse locations

Proxmox has released the latest version of its virtualization platform, Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.1, bringing a range of updates aimed at simplifying container deployment, strengthening virtual machine security, and improving network visibility across software-defined infrastructures. Proxmox VE 9.1 Features A key addition in this update is the integrated support for Open Container Initiative (OCI)

Pure Storage has introduced Portworx Kube Datastore, a VM architecture designed for cloud-native environments that aligns with how VMware administrators already operate. Built for KubeVirt, Kube Datastore offers enterprises a practical path to modernization without compromising uptime, workflows, or data protection. The result is a consistent, software-defined data platform that enables organizations to run everything