Blog

Google Cloud Next 2026: Enterprise AI Enters Production

Steve McDowell April 25, 2026

Google Cloud Next 2026, held last week in Las Vegas, delivered a clear, consistent message: the experimental phase of enterprise AI is over, and the

Why Nokia Is Becoming a Major Data Center “Day Zero” Vendor

Michael McDowell April 20, 2026

In a market full of incumbents modernizing legacy systems, Nokia is the rare vendor starting from zero, and that’s exactly why they’re gaining traction.

Nutanix .NEXT 2026: Beyond the Hypervisor

Steve McDowell April 14, 2026

Nutanix held its annual .NEXT user conference earlier this month in Chicago drew more than 5,000 attendees and over 100 sponsors. The event came at an inflection point for enterprise infrastructure, as the post-VMware market continues to consolidate, AI workloads move from pilot to production, and hardware supply constraints continue to complicate infrastructure planning.

Arista’s Early Lead in the Race to Rebuild the Data Center

Michael McDowell April 9, 2026

And while the race is far from over, Arista has carved out an early lead.

P5G in 2026: The Great Divide Between Carpet and Concrete

Michael McDowell April 7, 2026

Neither Siemens nor Celona is wrong. They’re just solving different problems for different people.

MLPerf Inference 6.0: Software Gains & Broadening Competition Shake Things Up

Steve McDowell April 2, 2026

MLCommons released MLPerf Inference v6.0 results, marking what the consortium describes as the most significant update to the benchmark suite to date.

The round introduced five new workloads, including a multimodal vision-language model, a text-to-video generation benchmark, and a new interactive scenario for the DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model.