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- Steve McDowell
- August 30, 2026
Cisco has added Supermicro as a rack-scale compute partner to Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, the joint infrastructure framework the two companies introduced in March 2025. The expansion brings Supermicro's liquid- and air-cooled dense GPU systems into the program alongside Cisco's Silicon One and NVIDIA Spectrum-X-based networking, targeting deployments on
- Steve McDowell
- August 30, 2026
Today's AI factories are gated by power, including how much a site can draw from the grid, how efficiently that power reaches a GPU, and how much useful compute each watt produces. Let's look at the problem through the lens of the long-time collaboration between Siemens and NVIDIA, which pairs
- Steve McDowell
- August 30, 2026
Nutanix announced the general availability of Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) 2.8, the latest release of its software platform for deploying and governing LLMs and AI agents across hybrid cloud environments.
- Steve McDowell
- August 24, 2026
At Hot Chips 2026, IBM disclosed the next-generation processor for its Z and LinuxONE systems, the first commercial chip designed to execute both IBM's z/Architecture and Arm instruction sets natively on the same physical cores.
- Steve McDowell
- August 24, 2026
NetApp recently announced the acquisition of JetStream Software, a San Jose-based cyber resilience vendor. JetStream builds disaster recovery and workload migration technology for VMware environments. NetApp plans to integrate that technology into its existing data protection portfolio alongside SnapMirror, its long-standing replication engine.
- Steve McDowell
- August 23, 2026
At the recent FMS 2026, SK hynix and SanDisk announced the first open technical specification for High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), formalizing a new memory category that sits between high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and solid-state drives.
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