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NetApp ASA

Why NetApp Acquired DataPelago: Nucleus and Its Enterprise AI Strategy

  • 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.
Deal

Cloudera and VAST Data Partner to Build an NVIDIA-Powered Enterprise AI Factory

  • 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
Quantum Cloud

Quantum Cloud Computing: An Enterprise Guide

  • Steve McDowell
  • July 16, 2026
Infographic titled AI Networking Change Control Framework with five pillars: Intent & Policy, Autonomous Actions, Explainability, Guardrails, and CAB Review, plus a Continuous Audit & Refine banner.

AI Networking Is Breaking Change Control- What do You Do?

  • Michael McDowell
  • July 13, 2026
That’s a truth we can no longer ignore: AI networking moves at machine speed, and change control is still built for human speed.
Quantum Impact: June 29 2026

Microsoft, Quantinuum & IBM: Closing the Gap Between Fragile Qubits and Fault-Tolerant Computing

  • Steve McDowell
  • June 29, 2026
Quantum error correction is crossing a major threshold w/ significant recent announcements from IBM, Microsoft & Quantinuum, with a direct line to the commercialization of quantum computing.
Abstract Breakthrough

Microsoft & Quantinuum: Peer-Reviewed Quantum Error Correction Results

  • Steve McDowell
  • June 29, 2026
Microsoft and Quantinuum recently published a peer-reviewed paper in Nature 6, confirming an 800-fold reduction in logical-qubit error rates on Quantinuum's trapped-ion hardware using Microsoft's qubit-virtualization platform.

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