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Research Note: AWS Enhances S3 for Enterprise AI

Steve McDowell July 20, 2025

At its recent AWS Summit in NYC, Amazon Web Services introduced two significant enhancements to its S3 object storage service: S3 Vectors for cost-effective vector data storage and expanded S3 Metadata capabilities for comprehensive object visibility.

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Research Note: IBM Brings Hyper Protect to Red Hat

Steve McDowell July 20, 2025

IBM recently expanded its Hyper Protect confidential computing portfolio to the Red Hat ecosystem through two new offerings: Hyper Protect Container Runtime (HPCR) for Red Hat Virtualization Solutions and Hyper Protect Confidential Containers (HPCC) for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

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Research Note: IBM Power11

Steve McDowell July 19, 2025

IBM recently announced the latest generation of its Power family, Power 11. The new processor and associated servers provide a significant architectural evolution, focusing on autonomous operations, AI integration, and hybrid cloud deployment.

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Research Note: Oracle Introduces MCP Server for Oracle Database

Steve McDowell July 17, 2025

Oracle this week introduced its new MCP Server for Oracle Database, leveraging Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol to enable direct interaction with its AI assistant on the database platform. The new capability transforms AI-database workflows (from code generation to execution), allowing large language models to connect, query, and analyze Oracle databases while maintaining existing security frameworks.

With MCP Server for Oracle Database, Oracle becomes the first major database vendor to implement MCP, continuing its aggressive approach to quickly bringing MCP capabilities to its database customers.

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