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
A recent study by the analyst firm Omdia, commissioned by Object First, reveals that enterprise ransomware recovery rates are declining despite growing awareness of modern data protection strategies. According to the research, 83 percent of surveyed organizations experienced a successful ransomware attack in the past 24 months, up from 66 percent in 2024. Among those
VAST Data and CrowdStrike are turning the AI security partnership they announced at VAST Forward in February into a shipping product, detailing a multi-layered integration that embeds enterprise-grade cybersecurity directly into AI storage infrastructure, data pipelines, and production AI workloads. By combining the VAST AI Operating System with the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, the collaboration addresses
MLCommons published the MLPerf Storage v3.0 results today, and the round changes not only what the benchmark is but also who leads it. For the first time, the only audited AI storage benchmark covers the full pipeline: training throughput, checkpointing, and two new inference workloads, a vector database test and a KV cache test. Nineteen
NVIDIA and MediaTek announced a significant expansion of their strategic collaboration, covering enterprise AI infrastructure, edge computing, client PCs, and automotive platforms. Backing the initiative, NVIDIA has invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek-issued convertible bonds. The technical partnership centers on MediaTek integrating the NVIDIA NVLink Fusion platform to provide hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and frontier model
Broadcom introduced VMware Private AI Cloud at VMware Explore, a private cloud architecture designed to run AI models close to enterprise data. Rather than moving sensitive data to external model providers, the platform is intended to bring models to the data within an organization’s private infrastructure. VMware Private AI Cloud combines VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF),
At VMware Explore, Broadcom introduced comprehensive security, identity, and open-source supply-chain solutions designed for enterprise AI deployments. As organizations move from static model querying to autonomous agentic architectures, workloads increasingly use emerging communication protocols such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent-to-agent (A2A) networking. These distributed frameworks create new attack surfaces across autonomous agents,
ASHRAE TC 9.9, the technical committee that owns most of the data center industry’s thermal guidance, has posted a freely downloadable Technical Bulletin titled TCS Coolant Integrity and System Readiness Best Practices, and it opens more with a warning than standards-body documents usually do: “It is too easy to violate direct-to-chip cooling system operational and
Kioxia and Sandisk outlined a joint capital investment plan totaling over $31 billion (approximately 5 trillion yen) through 2032 to expand advanced 3D NAND flash memory production in Japan. The planned deployment of capital is contingent on Japanese government subsidies and builds on the joint venture’s 25-year manufacturing partnership, which has previously directed more than
AMD has released ROCm 10, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of its open software stack, and made ROCm.AI generally available to developers. First introduced at Advancing AI 2026, ROCm.AI is an AI-native development platform intended to accelerate build, deployment, and optimization workflows on AMD hardware. ROCm.AI combines three components, ROCm Hyperloom, AMD Skills, and the
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