Everpure Investor Day: Pure’s Four-Vector Push Beyond Enterprise Storage
Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) used its recent financial analyst meeting to explain how it plans to grow beyond the enterprise storage array business that defined its first 17 years.
Management built its growth story around four vectors that it’s named Core and Core AI, Modern Data Software, Scale AI, Hyperscale Solutions.
NetApp Acquires PEAK:AIO to Scale ONTAP for AI Clouds
NetApp announced a definitive agreement to acquire PEAK:AIO, a Manchester, UK-based software-defined storage company whose core technology is a scale-out, disaggregated metadata service for parallel NFS (pNFS).
NetApp said it will integrate PEAK:AIO’s metadata services, global namespace, and parallel NFS access into ONTAP, extending its AI infrastructure to support AI clouds that must handle trillions of files and multi-exabyte deployments.
Qualcomm Acquires PickNik Robotics, Bolsters Its Physical AI Software Stack
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.
VAST Data Brings Confidential Compute to AI with DataEnclave
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 attestation confirms that the environment meets policies set by each asset’s owner.
Nutanix Acquires Ryax, Brings GPU-Aware Scheduling to Its Agentic AI Stack
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).
WEKA and Backblaze Combine Performance and Capacity Storage for AI Data Pipelines
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.
Splunk .conf26: Building the Trust Layer for Agentic AI
Splunk .conf26 recap: Cisco debuts agentic SOC, AI observability, and a unified data fabric to govern autonomous AI agents at scale.
Does the Cellular Market Need a Merger?
A combined Nokia+Ericsson entity would instantly become the largest non‑Chinese RAN vendor in the world.
Qualcomm & AWS Ink Multi-Generation Deal for Custom AI Silicon & Optical Connectivity
Qualcomm and Amazon Web Services announced a multi-generation agreement covering custom AI inference silicon and 1.6T optical connectivity for AWS data centers. The deal is structured around a warrant for up to 25 million Qualcomm shares at $161.26 per share, vesting as AWS meets purchase milestones, with a $60 billion ceiling on silicon and connectivity purchases through 2036.
IBM Quantum Nighthawk r2 Arrives on the IBM Quantum Platform
IBM announced that the second revision of its Nighthawk quantum processor is now available on the IBM Quantum Platform. The chip retains the 120-qubit square lattice introduced in the first Nighthawk revision and adds an independent, high-speed qubit reset (which reduces the default repetition delay from 250 microseconds to 1 microsecond).
VMware AI Factory: Broadcom’s Push to Operationalize Private AI
Broadcom introduced its new VMware AI Factory at VMware Explore 2026. The offering bundles software services built on VCF to take an enterprise from bare-metal infrastructure to a running production AI model. It combines infrastructure provisioning, GPU pooling, multi-tenant model sharing, and governance tooling into a single operational layer for enterprises that want to run AI workloads on infrastructure they own and control.
CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian: AI Agent Security at the Endpoint
CrowdStrike announced its new Falcon Guardian at Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas, extending its Falcon platform to secure AI agents on managed endpoints. The offering adds AI agent discovery, runtime visibility, access controls, and detection and response to CrowdStrike’s existing AI Detection and Response (AIDR) product line.