Everpure: Data Intelligence and Data Stream Advance AI-Ready Data-Primacy
Everpure’s Data Stream and Data Intelligence automate AI data pipelines and governance. See how they compare to Dell, HPE, VAST Data, and NetApp.
HPE Discover: Agentic Governance, Vera CPU, and Confidential Computing added to AI Factory w/ NVIDIA
Hewlett Packard Enterprise extended its HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA to support production-ready agentic AI deployments at its just-wrapped HPE Discover 2026. The announcements add governance, security, and compute capabilities for organizations moving AI agents into operational production environments.
HPE Discover: Self-Driving Networks and AI Data Center Switching for the Agentic Enterprise
At its recent HPE Discover event in Las Vegas, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a broad set of networking updates spanning AI data center switching, autonomous network operations, and unified secure access, extending its “self-driving” networking strategy into general availability across AI factories, data centers, campus, and edge environments.
Microsoft: Project Solara & the Agentic Operating Plane for the Non-NVIDIA World
At its recent Build 2026 event, Microsoft introduced Project Solara, a chip-to-cloud platform built specifically for devices whose primary interface is an AI agent. Solara runs on the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP), a lightweight operating system built on AOSP that hosts an Agent Shell capable of dynamically loading and tailoring cloud-based agents, paired with […]
Cisco’s Full-Stack Play for Agentic Enterprise AI
At Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, Cisco unveiled Cisco Cloud Control, a unified management plane designed for human operators and AI agents to jointly run and defend enterprise infrastructure. The platform anchors Cisco’s AgenticOps operating model, unifying networking, security, compute, observability, and collaboration under a single login and a shared data layer.
Computex 2026: AI Infrastructure, the PC Wars, and the New Connectivity Arms Race
Computex has historically been a client- and consumer-focused event, but those markets now take a back seat to enterprise infrastructure and the components that define an AI factory. The key messages were all AI, all the time.
The keynotes were entirely semiconductor-first, with talks by three chip CEOs: Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm, Lip-Bu Tan of Intel, and Matt Murphy of Marvell. Each painted a slightly different picture about where the AI buildout is headed.
Atlassian Team ’26: Context as Infrastructure
At Atlassian’s recent Team’26 conference, the company released a broad set of announcements organized around the thesis that organizational context is the primary source of AI differentiation. The announcements clearly show that Atlassian intends to serve as the infrastructure layer that makes that context actionable
Two Conferences, One Consensus on Enterprise AI
IBM Think 2026 and Atlassian Team ’26 both took place last week in different cities, for different audiences, and with different product portfolios on stage. IBM gathered infrastructure architects and enterprise IT executives in Boston, while Atlassian convened developer teams, platform practitioners, and collaboration leaders in Anaheim.
Think 2026: IBM’s AI Operating Model Takes Shape
At its annual Think conference in Boston earlier this month, IBM delivered the most comprehensive expansion to date of its enterprise AI and hybrid cloud portfolio. The announcements center on what IBM calls an AI Operating Model, a four-pillar architecture built around agents, data, automation, and hybrid infrastructure.
Celona Frequency 2026: The Self-Managed Shift and Why Celona Is Handing Over the Roadmap
Celona’s strategy reflects a vendor that listens, prioritizes, and executes, with a clear focus on real use cases, real operational challenges, and the ROI behind them.
Google Cloud: 8th-Generation TPU Family Splits Training and Inference
At Google Cloud Next 2026, Google unveiled its 8th-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) family, splitting its custom silicon lineup into two purpose-built architectures for the first time.
The TPU 8t targets large-scale model training, emphasizing compute throughput and scale-up bandwidth, while the TPU 8i addresses inference and reasoning workloads, emphasizing memory bandwidth and low-latency communication.
Google Cloud Next ‘26: Storage Infrastructure Advances + the NetApp Partnership
At its recent Next ’26 conference, Google Cloud advanced its storage portfolio across three fronts: high-performance infrastructure for AI training and inference, intelligent metadata capabilities built directly into the storage layer, and expanded ecosystem integrations.
The announcements span Cloud Storage Rapid, Google Cloud Managed Lustre with 10 TB/s throughput, Hyperdisk Exapools, Smart Storage automation, and material expansions to the Google Cloud NetApp Volumes service, including a deeper partnership with NetApp.
Google Cloud Next 2026: Enterprise AI Enters Production
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 production phase of autonomous agent deployment has begun. Google made an incredible 260 announcements at the event, with most aligned with the idea that enterprises will increasingly operate through fleets […]
SUSECON 2026: SUSE Shows Off Platform Strategy and Agentic Infrastructure
SUSECON 2026, recently held in Prague, saw SUSE lay out a coherent platform direction, shifting from being primarily a Linux and Kubernetes distribution vendor to a provider of an integrated open infrastructure stack spanning virtualization, edge, and AI-augmented operations.
Nutanix .NEXT 2026: Beyond the Hypervisor
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.
RSAC 2026: Agentic AI Security Takes Center Stage at Industry’s Marquee Event
If RSAC 2025 was the year the industry debated AI’s role in security, RSAC 2026 was the year the debate ended. Agentic AI, with its autonomous systems that perceive, decide, and act without human intervention, dominated every keynote, expo-floor conversation, and press release at this year’s conference.
Everpure: Evergreen//One + Everpure Data Stream for AI Infrastructure (GTC 2026)
Everpure announced two updates to its AI infrastructure platform at GTC 2026: the expansion of Evergreen//One storage-as-a-service to FlashBlade//EXA, and the beta release of Everpure Data Stream, a co-engineered data pipeline solution built on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design.
WEKA: NeuralMesh AIDP & STX Integration (GTC 2026)
At the recent GTC 2026, WEKA announced two major updates that enhance its position at the crossroads of AI storage and inference infrastructure. The company revealed the general availability of NeuralMesh AI Data Platform (AIDP), a ready-to-use appliance-style system based on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design
Nutanix: Full-Stack Agentic AI Platform for Enterprise AI Factories (GTC 2026)
At the recent NVIDIA GTC 2026 event, Nutanix announced Nutanix Agentic AI, a full-stack software solution designed to help enterprises build, operate, and govern AI factories at scale.
The announcement enhances Nutanix’s existing hybrid cloud platform — including its AHV hypervisor, Flow Virtual Networking, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, and Nutanix Enterprise AI — with features specifically designed for the operational needs of production agentic AI workloads.
HPE: AI Factory & Storage Advancements (GTC 2026)
At NVIDIA GTC 2026, HPE announced a broad expansion of its portfolio, including AI factory infrastructure, supercomputing platforms, and enterprise storage. These announcements collectively strengthen HPE’s role as a comprehensive NVIDIA-aligned infrastructure provider, extending the NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio with hardware based on the Vera Rubin and Blackwell GPU architectures, new CPU compute options, updated networking, and various software and services integrations.
NetApp: Next-Generation EF-Series Arrays for AI & HPC (GTC 2026)
NetApp announced the new EF50 and EF80 all-flash block storage arrays, the latest generation of its EF-Series, at the recent NVIDIA GTC 2026. The systems replace the previous EF-Series generation with a purpose-built design aimed at AI model training, high-performance computing simulations, and high-throughput transactional databases.
Cisco: Secure AI Factory Expands to the Edge with Agentic Security (GTC 2026)
At NVIDIA GTC 2026, Cisco announced a significant expansion of its Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, broadening its validated AI infrastructure architecture from centralized data centers to enterprise and service provider edge deployments. The announcement includes hardware-accelerated security, updated switching silicon, new Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs), and a formalized multi-agent reference architecture.
Dell Technologies: AI Data Platform with NVIDIA (GTC 2026)
Dell Technologies announced a major expansion of its AI Data Platform at the recent NVIDIA GTC 2026 event. Dell’s AI Data Platform serves as the data foundation layer of its Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. The announcement highlights three new architectural pillars: Data Orchestration Engine built on Dataloop, GPU-accelerated analytics embedded directly into the data layer, and
two new high-performance storage innovations, Lightning File System and Exascale Storage.
NVIDIA GTC 2026: Infrastructure Announcements
The focus at NVIDIA GTC 2026 was on developing a unified infrastructure model that vendors are now adopting. The industry has effectively reached a stage where NVIDIA sets the architectural standard, while partners compete on how well they implement it in enterprise and service-provider environments.
NVIDIA Just Rewired the AI Factory — And Networking Is Now the Star of the Show (GTC 2026)
Together, these components make a rack behave like a single system instead of a collection of servers held together by hope and bailing wire.
“Chips” is now the “C” in CES
While the focus of CES 2026 remained on consumer electronics, this year felt different. More expansive, with the semiconductor industry dominating the pre-show with overlapping announcements that reveal diverging strategies for AI workload acceleration, manufacturing sovereignty, and market expansion beyond traditional computing segments.
The Ecosystem Takes Center Stage at AWS re:Invent 2025
AWS re:Invent 2025 has become an industry show, with this year’s event showcasing a partner ecosystem focused on agentic AI integration and unified observability. The conference featured major announcements from enterprise ISVs, security platforms, and enterprise software providers, all positioning their technologies to work seamlessly with AWS’s new AI capabilities.
What the 5G‑OT Alliance Summit Revealed About Private 5G
2025 was defined more by adoption than by technical breakthroughs.
The 5G-OT Alliance is Off and Running
Unlike the polished narratives often seen at trade shows, the 5G-OT Alliance Connect offered a clear-eyed look at the private cellular journey.
SC25: Beyond Super Computing
Supercomputing 2025 delivered a clear message to enterprise IT leaders: the infrastructure conversation has fundamentally changed. The announcements from SC25 were about architectural transformation.
From rack-scale designs to quantum integration to facility-level engineering, the building blocks of large-scale AI and HPC systems are being reimagined.
Research Note: Snowflake BUILD 2025 Announcements
At its recent BUILD 2025 event, Snowflake unveiled a substantial array of platform updates centered on three core themes: compute performance optimization, data interoperability across heterogeneous environments, and operational automation.
The offerings address persistent enterprise challenges around data fragmentation, manual infrastructure management, and the operational overhead of supporting both transactional and analytical workloads on unified platforms.
Research Brief: Cisco Partner Summit Infrastructure Announcements
At its 2025 Partner Summit in San Diego this week, Cisco announced three interconnected infrastructure initiatives to address the operational, connectivity, and edge-computing requirements of AI workloads.
The announcements span network management simplification through AgenticOps workflows, GPU-as-a-Service connectivity via SD-WAN integration with Megaport AI Exchange, and a new converged edge computing platform called Unified Edge.
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.
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: Enterprise AI Agents Take Center Stage at AWS Summit NYC 2025
AWS recently concluded its New York City Summit with a clear message: the future of enterprise software is agentic AI, and Amazon aims to own the infrastructure that enables it.
HPE Discover 2025: The AI Evolution Takes Center Stage (and Everywhere Else) Day 1 Wrap Up
Las Vegas, Nevada – Antonio Neri took the stage at HPE Discover 2025’s opening day keynote, captivating a massive audience at the iconic Sphere in Las Vegas. Thousands of excited attendees filled the unique venue, buzzing with anticipation to hear HPE’s vision and groundbreaking announcements for the future of AI, hybrid cloud, and networking. The […]
Cisco Live Day 1 Recap
San Diego- the sun’s shining, the breeze is cool, and Cisco Live! 2025 just kicked off, bringing all sorts of cool vibes and as expected, a boatload of announcements. But here’s the real talk: Cisco has come to play with their AI powered networking gear.
Quick Take: Dell Tech World 2025
Last week I was back in Las Vegas for Dell Technologies World 2025. The company has a broad portfolio but was telling a single-minded story: Dell has a relentless focus on AI, emphasizing the Dell AI Factory and the shift towards on-premises enterprise AI solutions.
HPE Strengthens Cloud and Edge Security Posture
HPE rolled confidently into RSAC Conference recently, and, I must say, they brought some interesting tech to the table. HPE has been around the network security block a time or two. But these latest moves, especially around GreenLake and the Aruba Networking gear, show that they’re serious about stepping up their security game.
Research Note: CrowdStrike’s Falcon Adversary OverWatch
CrowdStrike expanded its threat-hunting capabilities, introducing its new Falcon Adversary OverWatch Next-Gen SIEM, extending visibility beyond endpoints to third-party data sources.
The new solution uses managed threat hunting to uncover threats in their early stages using available third-party SIEM data from network edge devices, identity and access management tools, SaaS applications, and email security tools.
Research Note: Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM 3.0
Palo Alto Networks recently released Cortex XSIAM 3.0, expanding its security operations platform with proactive exposure management and advanced email security capabilities. The update shifts the platform’s focus from primarily reactive to proactive security measures.
OFC 2025: Optical Interconnects Take Center Stage in the AI-First Data Center
AI is reshaping the data center, bringing networking along for the ride. It’s clear that optical networking is rapidly moving from a back-end concern to a front-line enabler of next-generation infrastructure.
AI workloads, with their massive datasets, distributed training pipelines, and high-performance compute requirements, demand interconnect solutions that combine extreme bandwidth with low power consumption and low latency. At last month’s OFC 2025 event in San Francisco, this shift was unmistakable.
Research Note: Lenovo AI Announcements @ GTC 2025
At NVIDIA GTC 2025, Lenovo showed off its latest Hybrid AI Factory platforms in partnership with NVIDIA, focused on agentic AI.
The Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage framework integrates a full-stack hardware and software solution, optimized for both private and public AI model deployments, and spans on-prem, edge, and cloud environments.
Research Note: NetApp AI Data Announcements @ GTC 2025
At the recent GTC 2025 event, NetApp announced, in collaboration with NVIDIA, a comprehensive set of product validations, certifications, and architectural enhancements to its intelligent data products.
The announcements include NetApp’s integration with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, support for NVIDIA’s latest accelerated computing systems, and expanded availability of enterprise-grade AI infrastructure offerings, including NetApp AFF A90 and NetApp AIPod.
Research Note: HPE’s New Full-Stack Enterprise AI Infrastructure Offerings
At the recent NVIDIA GTC 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA jointly introduced NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE, full-stack AI infrastructure offerings targeting enterprise deployment of generative, agentic, and physical AI workloads.
The solutions span private cloud AI platforms, observability and management software, reference blueprints, AI development environments, and new AI-optimized servers featuring NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture.
MWC 2025 Playbook: Enterprise IT’s Big AI & 5G Moment
If you blinked, you might have missed the tidal wave of AI, 5G, and cloud announcements at Mobile World Congress 2025. But don’t worry—we’ve got the cheat sheet.
NVIDIA GTC 2025: The Super Bowl of AI
If you thought AI was already moving fast, buckle up, Jensen Huang threw more fuel on the fire. NVIDIA’s GTC 2025 keynote wasn’t just about new GPUs; it was a full-scale vision of computing’s future, one where AI isn’t just a tool — it’s the foundation of everything.
Let’s look at what Jensen talk about during his 2+ hour keynote.
CES 2025- Enterprise Tech Was There Too
Oh my, CES 2025 has taken me on one heck of a ride through the tech universe. I am an enterprise IT guy but, I must admit, the non-IT tech at CES had me fully distracted. Automated lawnmowers, high tech indoor garden planters, and my favorite- an ultra-realistic flight simulator. Wowzers- really neat stuff.
CES 2025- Must See Tech
Can you believe it? The Consumer Electronics Show, aka CES, is just days away. I know, the timing is hard for all of us considering there hasn’t been much time to recover from our New Years festivities. No rest for the weary as we head out to Vegas for the big event.
The show is always full of surprises, so stay tuned next week for lots of announcements to hit the wire. In the meantime, I have a few thoughts to share on what I will be looking for at the show.
SC24: Shaping the Future of IT with High-Performance Computing and AI
Last week’s Supercomputing 2024 (SC24) conference in Atlanta brought together IT leaders, researchers, and industry innovators to unveil advancements in HPC and AI, with even a little quantum computing thrown in.
Insights from the 2024 IBM Quantum Developer Conference
IBM Research last week hosted its inaugural Quantum Developer Conference where the company highlighted significant advancements in quantum computing hardware, software, and integration with classical computing.
MWC Las Vegas 2024: 5G Needs the Enterprise
Reflecting on the 2023 MWC Las Vegas convention, where AI was the central theme, it’s clear that enterprise 5G has now taken center stage. This shift builds on the momentum created by AI’s integration into various technologies. It underscores the importance of low latency, highly managed private 5G networks in successful AI at the edge deployments.