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- Steve McDowell
- July 23, 2026
- Steve McDowell
- July 23, 2026
AMD used its Advancing AI 2026 conference in San Francisco on July 22-23 to launch a full-stack of AI infrastructure products spanning silicon, rack-scale systems, and developer software. The centerpiece is AMD Helios, the company’s first fully integrated rack-scale AI system, which combines 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 18 sixth-generation EPYC
- Steve McDowell
- July 21, 2026
WEKA has announced two related products: NeuralMesh 6, the sixth generation of its core software platform, and WEKApod 3, a third-generation family of storage appliances built on WEKA-designed hardware. The two announcements arrive together and are intended to be evaluated as a single system. NeuralMesh 6 remains deployable on customer-selected
- Steve McDowell
- July 17, 2026
NetApp announced the acquisition of DataPelago, a Sunnyvale, California-based startup that builds a data processing engine called Nucleus (formerly marketed as the Universal Data Processing Engine). DataPelago will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of NetApp. NetApp did not disclose the financial terms.
- Steve McDowell
- July 16, 2026
Cloudera and VAST Data have announced a strategic partnership to deliver a unified “AI factory” architecture that combines Cloudera’s containerized data services with the VAST AI Operating System. The partnership pairs Cloudera’s lakehouse-based data engineering, governance, and AI services with VAST’s Disaggregated Shared Everything storage architecture, built on the NVIDIA
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