AMD has announced the Instinct MI350P, a PCIe accelerator aimed at enterprises that want on-premises AI inference without rebuilding their data center. The card is a dual-slot, full-height, full-length design built for standard air-cooled servers. It is also the first time in nearly four years that AMD has put a current-generation Instinct chip into a

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

Object First announced general availability of Fleet Manager, a cloud-based management service designed to simplify operations across distributed Ootbi backup storage deployments for Veeam environments. The service is included at no additional cost for customers with active support contracts and is targeted at enterprises and service providers managing multi-site backup infrastructure. More on Object First:

At Think 2026, IBM made a broad set of announcements to show how it wants enterprises to operationalize AI across data, infrastructure, governance, and regulated environments. The company’s updates included a new enterprise AI operating model, the general availability of IBM Sovereign Core, and a separate quantum computing milestone with Cleveland Clinic and RIKEN, advancing

IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have launched the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, a new joint research organization intended to advance foundational work in artificial intelligence, algorithms, and quantum computing, with an emphasis on computing methods that can extend beyond the practical limits of classical systems. The lab evolves from the MIT-IBM Watson

Scality has announced ARTESCA+ Veeam HA, an updated version of its unified software appliance that combines the Veeam Data Platform with Scality ARTESCA object storage on a single system. The release extends the original single-node design into a multi-node, highly available architecture, positioning the platform as a turnkey backup and recovery solution for mid-size enterprises.

At Google Cloud Next, Google announced its next-generation AI accelerators: the TPU 8t “Sunfish” for training and the TPU 8i “Zebrafish” for inference, along with its new Virgo data center fabric. From Google’s blog posts, it is clear these chips are optimized for “the agentic era”: training frontier mixture-of-experts models at the hundreds-of-thousands-of-chips scale, and

QNAP Systems has introduced the QAI-h1290FX, an edge AI storage server designed for organizations that want to run large language models, retrieval-augmented generation search, and other generative AI workloads on their own infrastructure. The system is designed for enterprises that balance AI adoption with requirements for data privacy, low latency, governance, and operational control, enabling

HPE has announced an expansion of its ProLiant edge compute portfolio, introducing new hardware designed to support AI inferencing and mission-critical applications in distributed or harsh environments. The update includes the new HPE ProLiant Compute EL2000 chassis, which serves as the foundation for two Gen12 servers, and an enhanced version of the HPE ProLiant DL145