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Why Nokia Is Becoming a Major Data Center “Day Zero” Vendor

  • Michael McDowell
  • April 20, 2026
In a market full of incumbents modernizing legacy systems, Nokia is the rare vendor starting from zero, and that’s exactly why they’re gaining traction.

Arista’s Early Lead in the Race to Rebuild the Data Center

  • Michael McDowell
  • April 9, 2026
And while the race is far from over, Arista has carved out an early lead.

P5G in 2026: The Great Divide Between Carpet and Concrete

  • Michael McDowell
  • April 7, 2026
Neither Siemens nor Celona is wrong. They’re just solving different problems for different people.
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IBM & Arm: Together Extending Arm Architecture into Enterprise Computing

  • Steve McDowell
  • April 2, 2026
IBM and Arm announced a strategic partnership to support the Arm architecture on IBM's enterprise computing platforms, IBM Z and LinuxONE. The collaboration aims to address two key enterprise needs: greater workload flexibility and infrastructure capable of handling AI- and data-heavy applications at a mission-critical level.
MLPerf 6.0 Inference

MLPerf Inference 6.0: Software Gains & Broadening Competition Shake Things Up

  • Steve McDowell
  • April 2, 2026
MLCommons released MLPerf Inference v6.0 results, marking what the consortium describes as the most significant update to the benchmark suite to date. The round introduced five new workloads, including a multimodal vision-language model, a text-to-video generation benchmark, and a new interactive scenario for the DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model.

From Zero Trust to Zero Assumption: The RSAC 2026 Vibe Shift

  • Michael McDowell
  • April 1, 2026
Zero Trust, as it’s been marketed for the last decade, has officially entered its “participation trophy” era.

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