Research Notes

Dell & KIOXIA Bring 9.8PB in 2U to ObjectScale

Dell Technologies and KIOXIA have paired the KIOXIA LC9 series 245.76TB NVMe SSD with the Dell PowerEdge R7725 server running Dell ObjectScale software, creating a 2U storage node with 9.83PB of raw flash capacity.

This makes ObjectScale the first object storage platform to qualify KIOXIA’s 245.76TB drive, which KIOXIA introduced in July 2025 as the industry’s highest-capacity NVMe SSD.

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Dynatrace Acquires Arize: What the $915M Deal Means for AI Observability

Observability leader Dynatrace announced its intent to acquire Arize, a venture-backed company specializing in AI observability and large language model evaluation, for $915 million.

Arize provides a platform for evaluating and monitoring the behavior of large language models, AI agents, and machine learning systems in production, addressing issues such as hallucination detection, output quality measurement, and behavioral drift that fall outside the scope of conventional application performance monitoring.

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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.

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