The Fight for TDK’s HDD Head Business
The most strategic asset in the hard drive industry this week is a component most IT buyers never consider. On October 6, Bloomberg reported that
Steve McDowell
October 8, 2026
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The most strategic asset in the hard drive industry this week is a component most IT buyers never consider. On October 6, Bloomberg reported that
Atlassian made a broad set of announcements at its recent Team ’26 Europe conference covering nearly every product in its portfolio. The underlying theme across
Dell has expanded its Dell AI Data Platform, the data foundation of the Dell AI Factory, with a set of updates to orchestration, processing, storage,
At NetApp’s recent INSIGHT 2026 event in Las Vegas, I had the chance to speak with CEO George Kurian about the state of the business.
NetApp used its INSIGHT 2026 conference in Las Vegas to announce a broad set of platform, cloud, and partner updates alongside its headline Novus AI
At its INSIGHT 2026 conference in Las Vegas, NetApp announced NetApp Novus, its new storage architecture for neocloud operators, hyperscalers, GPU-as-a-Service providers, and large enterprises
Atlassian introduced the Agentic Multiplayer Protocol (AMP) at its Team ’26 Europe conference in Amsterdam. AMP is Atlassian’s framework for AI agents to participate in shared work alongside people across Jira, Confluence, Loom, Bitbucket, and the rest of the Atlassian cloud platform.
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.
Feb 24-25 Energy & HPC, Houston
Feb 24-26 VAST Forward, Salt Lake City
Mar 2-6 Mobile World Congress, Barcelona
Mar 9-11 Client Event, Boston
Mar 9-11 SxSW, Austin
Mar 16-19 NVIDIA GTC, San Jose
Mar 23-26 RSAC, San Francisco
Mar 31 Client Event, San Jose
Apr 7-9 Nutanix .NEXT, Chicago
Apr 9-10 Private Client Event, Chicago
Apr 20-23 Data Center World, Washington DC
Apr 22-24 Google Cloud Next, Las Vegas
May 4-7 IBM Think, Boston
May 5-7 Atlassian Team ’26, Anaheim