Oracle Base Database Cloud@Customer Extends Cloud Economics to Mid-Sized and Distributed Workloads
Oracle recently announced Oracle Base Database Cloud@Customer, a hybrid cloud database service that extends the company’s Cloud@Customer portfolio to include mid-sized and departmental workloads. The offering runs on Oracle Data Infrastructure Cloud@Customer X11, a compact engineered system that Oracle installs and manages within a customer’s data center, branch office, or other facility of the customer’s […]
IBM Acquires HRL Laboratories, Adds Silicon-Spin Qubits to Its Quantum Portfolio
IBM announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories, a research and development institution jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors since 1997. The transaction brings HRL’s expertise in silicon-spin qubit engineering, quantum sensing, and quantum materials research to IBM’s quantum computing program. IBM has built its quantum computing roadmap, including the […]
AMD Launches Helios Rack-Scale Platform, MI400 Series and Strong Partnerships
AMD used its Advancing AI 2026 conference in San Francisco on July 22-23 to launch a full-stack of AI infrastructure products spanning silicon, rack-scale systems, and developer software. The centerpiece is AMD Helios, the company’s first fully integrated rack-scale AI system, which combines 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 18 sixth-generation EPYC “Venice” CPUs, Pensando networking, and ROCm software into a single liquid-cooled rack rated at up to 2.9 exaflops of FP4 inference performance.
WEKA NeuralMesh 6 & WEKApod 3: Density, KV Cache, and AI Economics
WEKA has announced two related products: NeuralMesh 6, the sixth generation of its core software platform, and WEKApod 3, a third-generation family of storage appliances built on WEKA-designed hardware.
The two announcements arrive together and are intended to be evaluated as a single system. NeuralMesh 6 remains deployable on customer-selected hardware, while WEKApod 3 is WEKA’s turnkey platform, shipping with the software preinstalled.
Why NetApp Acquired DataPelago: Nucleus and Its Enterprise AI Strategy
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.
Cloudera and VAST Data Partner to Build an NVIDIA-Powered Enterprise AI Factory
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 AI Data Platform reference design. The joint offering addresses GPU starvation, in which expensive accelerator clusters sit idle because data pipelines cannot feed them fast enough to sustain training and inference workloads.
Quantum Cloud Computing: An Enterprise Guide
Quantum computing is entering the enterprise through the cloud. That matters because most organizations will not buy, install, or operate quantum hardware. Quantum computers simply aren’t data-center friendly. Instead, enterprises will access quantum processing units (QPUs) alongside CPUs, GPUs, and high-performance computing resources through familiar cloud environments. Evaluating this market requires looking beyond physical qubit […]
AI Networking Is Breaking Change Control- What do You Do?
That’s a truth we can no longer ignore: AI networking moves at machine speed, and change control is still built for human speed.