
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
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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

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

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

Cisco has added Supermicro as a rack-scale compute partner to Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, the joint infrastructure framework the two companies introduced in March

Today’s AI factories are gated by power, including how much a site can draw from the grid, how efficiently that power reaches a GPU, and

Nutanix announced the general availability of Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) 2.8, the latest release of its software platform for deploying and governing LLMs and AI
Quantum error correction is crossing a major threshold w/ significant recent announcements from IBM, Microsoft & Quantinuum, with a direct line to the commercialization of quantum computing.
The enterprise infrastructure market is faced with disruption across multiple fronts. Traditional virtualization platforms face unprecedented disruption, while emerging AI-first workloads demand architectures that seamlessly span on-prem, cloud, and edge environments.
It’s against this backdrop that Nutanix, Cisco, and Pure Storage have collaborated to reimagine converged infrastructure with Cisco’s FlashStack with Nutanix.
Oracle released its Oracle Database 26ai at its recent AI World event in Las Vegas. The update makes the database an integrated platform that embeds artificial intelligence capabilities across data management, development, and analytics operations.
The platform integrates vector search capabilities with traditional database functions, supports agentic AI workflows through in-database tools and MCP servers, and extends analytics capabilities through Iceberg table format support. Oracle also bundles in advanced AI features, including AI Vector Search, at no additional cost.
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.
Wind River Cloud Platform emerges as a compelling enterprise-grade alternative that addresses both immediate VMware challenges and long-term infrastructure modernization needs. Built on proven open-source technologies including StarlingX, Kubernetes, and OpenStack, the platform delivers unified management of both virtual machines and containers under a single, highly automated infrastructure solution.
This Research Report looks at how the Dell AI Data Platform addresses the challenges of AI-at-Scale with a purpose-built, modular approach that integrates file, block, and object storage into a unified system optimized for AI. Key components include data engines that enable aggregation, in-place querying, and searching across both structured and unstructured data sets, as well as storage engines that provide the necessary performance, scale, and security across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments.
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