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What to expect during ‘5 Steps to a Smarter Private Cloud’: Join theCUBE Sept. 24
The challenge of meeting artificial intelligence mandates, coupled with a push to build workloads that can manage traditional applications alongside containers and edge computing, is putting significant pressure on IT organizations these days. This challenge has led to the emergence of private cloud as a key solution for supporting a rapidly changing IT landscape. The ...
‘Kicking our butts’: Rapid pace of AI development sparks an urgent push to build better infrastructure
Artificial intelligence innovation is moving at warp speed, but major tech industry players are sounding alarm bells that infrastructure is failing to keep pace with advancements in the field. “AI is kicking our butts and teaching us that we know nothing about infrastructure,” Yee Jiun Song (pictured below), vice president of engineering at Meta Platforms Inc., ...
Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s Supermicro Open Storage Summit
The enterprise data storage world is undergoing a transformation as IT vendors rethink how their offerings handle both the volume and complexity of artificial intelligence workloads. It’s a transition that requires new approaches to enable faster data retrieval and support the need for AI systems to process and retain large amounts of relevant information instantaneously. ...
What to expect during CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con: Join theCUBE Sept. 16-17
Enterprise security is facing a turning point as attackers abandon traditional malware in favor of stealthy, AI-powered intrusions. For today’s security leaders, the challenge is no longer just detecting files — it’s defending against invisible, fileless threats that exploit identities, cloud environments and the very infrastructure enterprises depend on. CrowdStrike Inc. released two threat reports ...
Charting the future of hyperscale AI storage: Supermicro and partners set the pace
Hyperscale data center operators are poised to invest billions to build out AI infrastructure, and this has placed a spotlight on the role of software-defined storage in new platform deployment. For Supermicro Computer Inc., this represents an opportunity to not only showcase its portfolio of servers, storage systems and switches, but also to work with ...
Broadcom transforms VMware Cloud Foundation into a springboard for private AI
A series of announcements from Broadcom Inc. this week underscored its plan to transform VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 into an AI-native platform. At the heart of that vision is artificial intelligence, with private AI serving as a key element that makes VCF a secure, scalable private cloud foundation. On Tuesday, Broadcom announced the addition of ...
Dell harnesses AI to deliver outcomes in a fast-growing market
The challenge confronting Dell Technologies Inc. is how to capitalize on the explosive AI opportunity while transitioning its millions of servers, storage arrays and PCs to a new era of innovation. This challenge will require a focus on go-to-market, supply chain, services and product, according to Alex Barretto (pictured, right), senior vice president at Dell. ...
Turning trash into treasure: Dell’s sustainability push in IT
What does it take to strengthen sustainability for data center operations? Dell Technologies Inc. is on a mission to find out. The company has pursued several solutions to enhance sustainability for customers, such as next-gen servers that lower central processing unit power consumption, cooling innovations and advanced software management systems to improve energy optimization. Recycling ...
Developers gain new tools as Workato debuts agentic AI sandbox
Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to research labs — it’s now being reshaped by AI agents designed to tackle everyday business tasks with speed and precision. Building on customer-driven demand, Workato Inc. has introduced a new fleet of agents that extend its low-code, no-code orchestration platform Agentic, aiming to automate work across functions and deliver ...
HPE and Nvidia push AI-ready storage into the enterprise spotlight
Enterprise storage is continuing to go through significant changes as demonstrated by the recent announcement of a new collaboration between Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Nvidia Corp. The two enterprise powerhouses have extended their partnership to include AI-optimized storage. It highlights how HPE is focused on reshaping the role of enterprise storage in this evolving ...