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- Steve McDowell
- September 23, 2026
Qualcomm announced at ROSCon Toronto an agreement to acquire PickNik,the Boulder, Colorado-based company that stewards MoveIt, one of the most widely adopted open-source manipulation frameworks in the Robot Operating System (ROS) ecosystem.
- Steve McDowell
- September 23, 2026
VAST Data announced its new VAST DataEnclave, a confidential compute capability for AI workloads within the VAST DataEngine, which runs AI models in hardware-isolated environments built on NVIDIA Confidential Computing. The new capability decrypts model weights and enterprise data only within protected CPU and GPU memory, and only after cryptographic
- Steve McDowell
- September 22, 2026
Nutanix announced its acquisition of Ryax Technologies, a French developer of AI-driven compute orchestration and workload-scheduling software, for an undisclosed amount. Nutanix plans to integrate Ryax’s GPU utilization and smart scheduling technologies into future releases of the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) and Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI).
- Steve McDowell
- September 21, 2026
WEKA and Backblaze recently announced a validated two-tier storage architecture for AI workloads. The solution pairs WEKA NeuralMesh, a high-performance parallel file system designed for GPU-fed workloads, with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, an object storage service for large-scale data retention.
- Steve McDowell
- September 21, 2026
Splunk .conf26 recap: Cisco debuts agentic SOC, AI observability, and a unified data fabric to govern autonomous AI agents at scale.
- Michael McDowell
- September 21, 2026
A combined Nokia+Ericsson entity would instantly become the largest non‑Chinese RAN vendor in the world.
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