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Dell finds new momentum as private cloud strategies evolve
It has been two years since Broadcom Inc.’s acquisition of virtualization powerhouse VMware Inc. was finalized, changing the landscape for the enterprise private cloud. The transition was significant in the private cloud arena. Companies noted higher prices and reduced marketing resources from VMware, while a simplified subscription model and renewed focus on top-tier firms have fueled ...
Nvidia and Weka target rising memory limits as AI inferencing scales
A new performance wall is emerging as next-generation systems strain under skyrocketing model demands, especially when artificial intelligence workloads push AI inferencing engines beyond what conventional memory tiers can handle. WekaIO Inc.’s newest release, built in collaboration with Nvidia Corp., takes direct aim at that constraint with a redesigned memory extension layer. By streaming key-value ...
Vast Data deepens Azure collaboration as enterprises race to modernize for agentic AI
One of the largest players in the data infrastructure market announced on Tuesday that it would be teaming up with Microsoft Corp. to power the next wave of agentic AI. Vast Data Inc. will be collaborating with Microsoft on its Azure platform to provide customers with high-performance AI infrastructure in the cloud. Enterprises will have ...
All aboard: Top US regulators sound more bullish than ever about moving ahead with crypto initiatives
The heads of several powerful financial regulators in the U.S. signaled this week that they were getting on board the fast-moving digital currency train. Paul Atkins, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said his agency is working on a framework for allowing the offer of crypto assets tied to investment contracts. Speaking at the ...
Increased testing of models and agentic AI leads Dynatrace to reshape observability in the enterprise
Dynatrace Inc. built its place in the technology world by providing observability and security for traditional workloads. That mission has now come to include support for artificial intelligence workloads with AI-powered observability, which has given the company a prime position from which to observe the latest trends. “We see a change in how people are building ...
OpenShift adoption drives faster delivery, stronger compliance at Banco do Brasil
As Latin America’s largest bank, Banco do Brasil was looking to reduce overhead while expanding its hybrid cloud strategy. It turned to Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift to triple the number of managed applications. The platform also helped the bank meet regulatory compliance without increasing staff, according to Gustavo Fiuza (pictured, center), DevOps engineer at Banco ...
GKE hackathon’s first-time winner cooks up a novel application using agentic AI
It was Amie Wei’s first hackathon, and she thought her idea to build a “cart to kitchen” AI shopping assistant would at least help her decide what to make for her parents when they came to visit, regardless of whether she won or not. The intelligent helper that Wei (pictured, center) built was part of ...
Google GKE’s 10-year milestone highlights strength of the cloud-native community and Kubernetes’ influence
The launch of Google Kubernetes Engine or GKE 10 years ago played a major role in defining how enterprises think about cloud reliability and scale. It also was a key milestone in uniting other major cloud providers around a common abstraction, according to Kelsey Hightower (pictured, center), distinguished engineer at Google Cloud. “It was the ...
Reshaping the stack: Inside the open-source forces driving AI’s next chapter
AI and Kubernetes are coming together to reshape the entire stack. What will this mean for the future roles of cloud-native and open-source? This is the central question that will be on the minds of key leaders from the open-source community when they gather in Atlanta for the annual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA event, kicking ...
How Celonis helps CIE turn ERP complexity into operational clarity
For CIE Automotive SA, supplying automotive components and assemblies from its global network of manufacturing plants required a complex set of enterprise resource planning, or ERP systems. As the company grew, it needed to integrate and manage its core business processes to avoid organizational chaos. CIE wanted a centralized point not only to manage business ...









