NAND Insider Newsletter: Week of May 12, 2025

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Each week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers taking a look at what’s driving the week, and what happened last week that caught our attention. Below is a excerpt from this week’s, May 10, 2025.

NAND Insider Newsletter: April 21 2025

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Each week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers taking a look at what’s driving the week, and what happened last week that caught our attention. Below is a excerpt from this week’s, April 21, 2025.

NAND Insider Newsletter: March 30 2025

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Every week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers taking a look at what’s driving the week, and what happened last week that caught our attention. Below is a excerpt from this week’s, March 30, 2025.

NAND Insider Newsletter: March 24, 2025

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Every week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers taking a look at what’s driving the week, and what happened last week that caught our attention. Below is a excerpt from this week’s, March 24, 2025.

NAND Insider Newsletter: March 10, 2025

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Every week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers taking a look at what’s driving the week, and what happened last week that caught our attention. Below is a excerpt from this week’s, March 10, 2025.

CoreWeave’s Wild Ride Towards IPO

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CoreWeave, the AI-focused cloud provider that’s that was early in catching and riding the generative AI boom, is officially gunning for the big leagues. The NVIDIA-backed company has filed for an IPO, looking to capitalize on the insatiable demand for AI compute.

That’s big news for the AI infrastructure world, where CoreWeave has rapidly positioned itself as a major player, taking on the likes of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

But before you start picturing ringing bells on Wall Street and champagne toasts, there’s more to the story. A lot more.

Quick Take: Cisco’s Investment in CoreWeave and its AI Infrastructure Strategy

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Cisco is reportedly on the verge of investing in CoreWeave, one of the hottest neo-cloud providers specializing in AI infrastructure, in a transaction valuing the GPU cloud provider at $23 billion. CoreWeave has rapidly scaled its AI capabilities by utilizing NVIDIA GPUs for data centers, becoming a key player in the AI infrastructure market.

Research Note: VAST Data’s New AI Updates & Partnerships

Logo for the VAST Data Platform.

VAST made a wide-ranging set of AI-focused announcements that extend it’s already impressive feature set to directly address the needs of enterprise AI. Beyond the new features, VAST also highlighted new strategic relationships and a new user community that help bring VAST technology into the enterprise.

Quick Take: CoreWeave $7.5B Debt Financing to Expand AI Infrastructure

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GPU-cloud provider CoreWeave announced a definitive agreement for a $7.5 billion debt financing round. The funds will be used to expand CoreWeave’s high-performance computing infrastructure to meet the demands of existing contracts with enterprise customers and AI innovators.