Research Report: Beyond Legacy Virtualization: Wind River’s Modern Alternative for Enterprise Infrastructure
Wind River Cloud Platform emerges as a compelling enterprise-grade alternative that addresses both immediate VMware challenges and long-term infrastructure modernization needs. Built on proven open-source technologies including StarlingX, Kubernetes, and OpenStack, the platform delivers unified management of both virtual machines and containers under a single, highly automated infrastructure solution.
Research Report: Addressing Enterprise AI Data Challenges At Scale with the Dell AI Data Platform
This Research Report looks at how the Dell AI Data Platform addresses the challenges of AI-at-Scale with a purpose-built, modular approach that integrates file, block, and object storage into a unified system optimized for AI. Key components include data engines that enable aggregation, in-place querying, and searching across both structured and unstructured data sets, as well as storage engines that provide the necessary performance, scale, and security across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments.
Oracle AI World 2025: Bringing Cohesion to the AI Data Stack
Oracle AI World 2025 in Las Vegas was a clear demonstration of how far the company has come from its roots as a database vendor. This year’s event, as its new name might give away, was all about AI.
Oracle’s announcements centered on its Oracle AI Data Platform, a new Oracle database release, the new Autonomous AI Lakehouse, along with new advances in Oracle’s distributed cloud portfolio, and deepened multi-cloud partnerships with both Google Cloud and AWS. That’s a lot – and we’re just hitting the highlights.
Research Note: Qualcomm Introduces AI200 & AI250 for Data Center Inference
Qualcomm Technologies recently announced two data center inference accelerators, the AI200 and AI250, targeting commercial availability in 2026 and 2027, respectively. The products are Qualcomm’s first strategic push into rack-scale AI inference.
Research Brief: Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse
Oracle recently announced its Oracle Autonomous AI at its Oracle AI World event in Las Vegas. The new offering combines Oracle’s Autonomous AI Database platform with native Apache Iceberg support. The offering addresses persistent enterprise challenges around data lock-in and platform interoperability by providing standardized access to data across multiple clouds and catalogs.
SONiC Operators Rejoice: Cisco Announces NVIDIA based AI Networking with SONiC
This isn’t just another option coming out of Cisco’s R&D; it’s a blueprint for the future.
HPE Doesn’t Trust Anyone Else with Exascale Speed
Choosing Slingshot instead of buying competitor gear like InfiniBand is a hardcore strategic move centered on performance, predictability, and ownership.
Research Note: Red Hat AI 3.0
Red Hat released version 3.0 of its AI platform, introducing production-ready features for distributed inference, expanded hardware support, and foundational components for agentic AI systems.
Key additions include the generally available llm-d project for Kubernetes-native distributed inference, support for IBM Spyre accelerators alongside existing NVIDIA and AMD GPU options, and developer preview features for Llama Stack and MCP integration.
Is Now the Time to Converge P5G with Wi-Fi?
The promise of Private 5G (P5G) is tantalizing for enterprises, particularly in mission-critical industrial and campus environments.
Purpose-Driven Networking is the New Standard: RUCKUS Networks Goes All-In on Experience-Critical Verticals
Your Network Isn’t Just Infrastructure—It’s Your Biggest Business Risk. RUCKUS Networks Builds the Mitigation Strategy.
IBM TechXchange 2025: Enterprise AI Comes of Age in Orlando
I’ve just returned from IBM TechXchange 2025 in Orlando, and if there was one overarching message from this year’s event, it was this: the era of AI experimentation is over, and IBM is ready to help enterprises bring it to production environments.I’ve just returned from IBM TechXchange 2025 in Orlando, and if there was one overarching message from this year’s event, it was this: the era of AI experimentation is over, and IBM is ready to help enterprises bring it to production environments.
Research Note: Qualcomm Acquires Arduino, Extends IoT Reach
Qualcomm announced its acquisition of Arduino, an open-source hardware and software company with an estimated 33 million active users.
The acquisition arrives as Qualcomm accelerates diversification beyond smartphones through its Dragonwing brand, launched earlier in 2025, showing the strong organizational commitment to IoT and edge computing as primary growth engines, alongside automotive.
The Best-Kept Secret in IT: Why Your Factory Needs to Ditch Copper and Go Full Fiber
Traditional Ethernet networks are a sprawling mess of cables, switches, and distribution frames……POL, on the other hand, is deceptively simple.
Research Note: IBM Releases Granite Model for DocLing Document Processing
IBM recently released Granite-Docling-258M, a specialized vision-language model for document conversion that operates at 258 million parameters under an Apache 2.0 license. The new model is a production-ready iteration of the experimental SmolDocling-256M-preview released earlier this year and incorporates architectural improvements and stability enhancements.