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IBM has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Confluent for $11 billion in cash ($31 per share), adding enterprise-grade Apache Kafka streaming infrastructure to its
Lenovo announced a comprehensive update to its storage and hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio. The announcement includes four new ThinkSystem DS Series all-flash SAN arrays, three ThinkAgile HCI product lines supporting VMware, Nutanix, and Microsoft Azure Local environments, and expanded lifecycle services.
2025 was defined more by adoption than by technical breakthroughs.
AWS announced several enhancements to its S3 storage platform at its recent re:Invent 2025, strengthening its object storage capabilities for adjacent markets, including vector databases, enterprise file systems, and enterprise data lakes.
The announcements include the general availability of S3 Vectors with substantially increased scale limits, new S3 integration with FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems, cost-optimization features for S3 Tables, and expanded performance monitoring through S3 Storage Lens.
Oracle released its Oracle Database 26ai at its recent AI World event in Las Vegas. The update makes the database an integrated platform that embeds artificial intelligence capabilities across data management, development, and analytics operations.
The platform integrates vector search capabilities with traditional database functions, supports agentic AI workflows through in-database tools and MCP servers, and extends analytics capabilities through Iceberg table format support. Oracle also bundles in advanced AI features, including AI Vector Search, at no additional cost.
At its 2025 Partner Summit in San Diego this week, Cisco announced three interconnected infrastructure initiatives to address the operational, connectivity, and edge-computing requirements of AI workloads.
The announcements span network management simplification through AgenticOps workflows, GPU-as-a-Service connectivity via SD-WAN integration with Megaport AI Exchange, and a new converged edge computing platform called Unified Edge.
Wind River Cloud Platform emerges as a compelling enterprise-grade alternative that addresses both immediate VMware challenges and long-term infrastructure modernization needs. Built on proven open-source technologies including StarlingX, Kubernetes, and OpenStack, the platform delivers unified management of both virtual machines and containers under a single, highly automated infrastructure solution.
This Research Report looks at how the Dell AI Data Platform addresses the challenges of AI-at-Scale with a purpose-built, modular approach that integrates file, block, and object storage into a unified system optimized for AI. Key components include data engines that enable aggregation, in-place querying, and searching across both structured and unstructured data sets, as well as storage engines that provide the necessary performance, scale, and security across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments.
Oracle recently announced its Oracle Autonomous AI at its Oracle AI World event in Las Vegas. The new offering combines Oracle’s Autonomous AI Database platform with native Apache Iceberg support. The offering addresses persistent enterprise challenges around data lock-in and platform interoperability by providing standardized access to data across multiple clouds and catalogs.
Oracle announced the general availability of its Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure, a managed cloud service that combines distributed database capabilities with serverless computing architecture. The platform automatically distributes and synchronizes data across multiple Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions, maintaining full SQL compatibility and support for Oracle Database features.
AWS re:Invent 2025 has become an industry show, with this year’s event showcasing a partner ecosystem focused on agentic AI integration and unified observability. The conference featured major announcements from enterprise ISVs, security platforms, and enterprise software providers, all positioning their technologies to work seamlessly with AWS’s new AI capabilities.
Unlike the polished narratives often seen at trade shows, the 5G-OT Alliance Connect offered a clear-eyed look at the private cellular journey.
This is not simply the story of winning a deal; it’s the narrative of HPE defining the next era of hybrid cloud computing….
Supercomputing 2025 delivered a clear message to enterprise IT leaders: the infrastructure conversation has fundamentally changed. The announcements from SC25 were about architectural transformation.
From rack-scale designs to quantum integration to facility-level engineering, the building blocks of large-scale AI and HPC systems are being reimagined.
…P5G is not dying; rather, it is shedding unrealistic use cases.
Legacy and mobile DRAM types, including DDR4 and LPDDR5X, face severely extended delivery lead times, while contract prices for DRAM and NAND flash are rising sharply. This is leaving Smartphone OEMs and SoC vendors with elevated memory cost burdens that threaten margins and will likely force higher device prices.
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