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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 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.

Everpure: Evergreen//One + Everpure Data Stream for AI Infrastructure (GTC 2026)

Steve McDowell
March 31, 2026

Everpure announced two updates to its AI infrastructure platform at GTC 2026: the expansion of Evergreen//One storage-as-a-service to FlashBlade//EXA, and the beta release of Everpure Data Stream, a co-engineered data pipeline solution built on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design.

WEKA: NeuralMesh AIDP & STX Integration (GTC 2026)

Steve McDowell
March 31, 2026

At the recent GTC 2026, WEKA announced two major updates that enhance its position at the crossroads of AI storage and inference infrastructure. The company revealed the general availability of NeuralMesh AI Data Platform (AIDP), a ready-to-use appliance-style system based on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design

Nutanix: Full-Stack Agentic AI Platform for Enterprise AI Factories (GTC 2026)

Steve McDowell
March 31, 2026

At the recent NVIDIA GTC 2026 event, Nutanix announced Nutanix Agentic AI, a full-stack software solution designed to help enterprises build, operate, and govern AI factories at scale. The announcement enhances Nutanix's existing hybrid cloud platform — including its AHV hypervisor, Flow Virtual Networking, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, and Nutanix Enterprise

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