NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, a transaction that would extend the company’s position from accelerated compute and AI infrastructure into one of the industry’s most widely used platforms for open models, datasets, and application development. In an announcement published on the NVIDIA website, CEO Jensen Huang said the company plans

ASUS is expanding its role in AI infrastructure, moving from individual AI servers to platforms for building, deploying, and operating entire AI factories. At AI Tech 2026 in Seoul, the company laid out a broader strategy that brings accelerated computing, networking, storage, deployment software, infrastructure management, and AI governance together under one platform. That puts

AMD used its IFA 2026 opening keynote to reveal the Threadripper Halo Station, a liquid-cooled workstation pairing a 96-core Threadripper PRO with a pair of Instinct MI350P accelerators, and the pitch could not be more direct: this is AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s GB300 DGX Station. “This is the most powerful workstation in the world,” said

Equinix has expanded its partnership with NVIDIA and entered a new collaboration with Together AI to launch Equinix Inference Exchange. Designed as a distributed AI inference architecture for enterprise deployments, the platform aims to shift compute workloads closer to core data repositories, end users, and operational applications. Announced alongside Equinix Fabric One at the Equinix

Proxmox is making a major expansion to its enterprise operations, moving to 24/7 global support beginning October 19, 2026, while establishing a new North American subsidiary in Kingston, Ontario. The new support covers Proxmox Virtual Environment, Proxmox Backup Server, and Proxmox Datacenter Manager, giving enterprise customers direct access to Proxmox engineers at any time of

The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program Technology Provider Companies, comprising Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM Corporation, and Quantum Corporation, have released their annual tape media shipment report. Following sustained enterprise data expansion, the report highlights a strong start to 2026, driven by continued LTO-9 adoption and the rollout and initial capacity ramp-up of LTO-10 media. According to

VDURA has completed the deployment of its data platform at New Mexico State University (NMSU), moving the system into full production. The infrastructure is designed to serve the university’s research community with a high-durability, high-throughput storage environment tailored specifically for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. NMSU, which holds Carnegie R1 status and manages

AWS has made its Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances generally available, introducing memory-optimized systems powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. The new Arm-based instances target database, caching, analytics, container, and microservices workloads that require high memory bandwidth and improved per-vCPU performance. Compared with Graviton4-based R8g instances, AWS states that R9g can deliver up to 25%

At VMware Explore 2026, we had the chance to sit down with Stuart McRae, Executive Director of Lenovo’s Enterprise Storage, Software, and Solutions Offering Group. Rather than focusing on a specific product or technology, as we often do, this conversation took a broader view. We covered everything from how AI is reshaping buyer options and