Trane Technologies has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LiquidStack, positioning the company to deepen its thermal management capabilities for modern data centers. LiquidStack is recognized for data center liquid-cooling technology designed for high-density compute environments, including generative AI and hyperscale infrastructure. LiquidStack’s Role in High-Density Compute Cooling LiquidStack develops liquid-cooling solutions to address

Synology and Wasabi Technologies have announced a new partnership to make enterprise data protection easier to manage and more cost-predictable, particularly for organizations facing growing data volumes, tighter compliance requirements, and increasingly aggressive ransomware threats. The collaboration brings native support for Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage into Synology’s ActiveProtect line of enterprise backup appliances, allowing organizations

IBM has launched its next-generation IBM FlashSystem portfolio, making it an autonomous storage layer powered by agentic AI. This new version builds on FlashSystem’s existing AI features. IBM is improving resilience and automating operations. It offers ongoing protection, automated threat analysis, and personalized recovery advice. IBM claims this method can cut manual storage management tasks

QNAP has introduced myQNAPcloud One, a unified cloud storage subscription designed to address two distinct yet commonly paired needs: network-attached storage backups and object-based cloud data storage. The service combines an updated version of myQNAPcloud Storage, built primarily for NAS backup workflows, with myQNAPcloud Object, an S3-compatible object storage platform. Both draw from a single

AMD has announced the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGA family. They position the lineup as a mid-range refresh for bandwidth-hungry, latency-sensitive designs across medical, industrial automation, test and measurement, and professional broadcast. The company is emphasizing modernized memory and I/O, deterministic performance characteristics, and integrated security, along with long-lifecycle commitments that are common requirements for

TrueNAS has launched the R60, a storage platform created to address traditional capacity limits. The R60 features a high-density NVMe design built for AI, HPC, and analytics I/O profiles. Packaged in a 1U platform, the R60 is designed to deliver consistent throughput and operational reliability in compute-intensive environments without compromising data control, cost, or long-term

At its Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital (now rebranded as WD) unveiled a customer-centric storage roadmap to reinvent hard drives for AI-era infrastructure, spanning 100TB+ HDDs, new performance- and power-optimized architectures, and an intelligent platform designed to improve storage economics and time-to-value. WD confirmed its 40TB UltraSMR ePMR drive is currently in customer qualification,

Intel is expanding its workstation portfolio with the introduction of Intel Xeon 600 processors for client workstations, a new high-end desktop platform designed for heavily threaded, memory-intensive, and accelerator-rich professional workloads. Positioned above mainstream desktop workstation CPUs, the Xeon 600 targets engineering, simulation, AI development, media production, and financial modeling environments where scale, bandwidth, and

Backblaze has released its Q4 2025 Network Stats report, which provides insight into how traffic flows across its platform and what that activity reveals about modern AI infrastructure. This is the company’s second quarterly Network Stats publication, alongside its ongoing Drive Stats and Performance Stats series, and focuses on network-level behavior, including ingress, egress, bandwidth