Zymtrace Secures $12.2M to Recover Billions in Wasted GPU Spend Through Autonomous Optimization
Zymtrace announced a $12.2 million funding round, including an $8.5 million seed led by Venture Guides, to scale its autonomous AI‑infrastructure optimization platform. The company’s eBPF‑based solution continuously profiles GPU and CPU workloads, automatically generating pull‑requests that fix bottlenecks without code changes. By exposing hidden inefficiencies, Zymtrace claims to lift GPU utilization from the industry‑average 35‑40% toward full capacity, cutting inference latency and boosting throughput. Early customers report up to 2.5× faster inference and a 90% increase in GPU throughput.
OFC 2026: Marvell Launches Next-Generation CXL Switch, Enabling Memory Pooling to Break Through the AI “Memory Wall”
Marvell announced the Structera S 30260, a 260‑lane CXL 3.0 switch that enables rack‑level memory pooling for AI workloads. The device offers up to 4 TB/s aggregate bandwidth and works with Marvell’s Structera A accelerators, Structera X expansion controllers, and Alaska P retimers to provide disaggregated memory...
RSAC 2026: N-Able Report Reveals Why AI-Powered, Layered Cyber Defense Is Essential for Business Resilience
N‑able’s 2026 State of the SOC report shows a sharp resurgence of network‑perimeter attacks and a dramatic rise in alert volume, with the SOC processing roughly two alerts per minute in 2025. AI now automates about 90% of investigation tasks,...
RSAC 2026: Swissbit Sets Stage for Post‑Quantum Hardware Authentication
Swissbit AG announced at RSA Conference 2026 that its iShield Key 2 hardware security key now integrates HID Seos credential technology for physical access and will soon support face‑biometric verification with liveness detection. The company also unveiled an early‑stage iShield Key PQC...
RSAC 2026: Commvault Connects AI Threat Detection, Investigation, and Trusted Recovery with Microsoft Security
Commvault Systems has deepened its partnership with Microsoft Security, linking its Cloud backup telemetry to Microsoft Sentinel and Security Copilot. The integration streams real‑time threat‑scan alerts into Sentinel and adds an Investigation Agent in Copilot that autonomously assesses breach scope...
RSAC 2026: Aewin Unveils AI Infrastructure
Aewin Technologies announced a new line of AI‑focused infrastructure at the 2026 RSA Conference in San Francisco. The portfolio includes high‑performance network appliances, tailored servers and a two‑phase direct liquid cooling system built around Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors. Flagship...
CloudFest 2026: Phison Expands Pascari Ecosystem in the EU to Accelerate AI Infrastructure
Phison Electronics announced the EU-wide rollout of its Pascari portfolio at CloudFest 2026, showcasing new Gen5 PCIe SSDs designed for AI and high‑performance computing. The company highlighted partnerships with platform makers AIC and InWin to broaden distribution of its Pascari...
CloudFest 2026: Toshiba to Showcase High-Performance AI and Petabyte-Scale Storage Solutions
Toshiba Electronics Europe will showcase petabyte‑scale, high‑performance storage solutions at CloudFest 2026, featuring live demos of 2 PB and 1 PB HDD‑based systems. The displays, built with partners Ugreen, Promise Technology and Microchip, highlight scalable NAS, AI‑optimized servers, and ZFS‑powered clusters. A...
CloudFest 2026: Pegatron Accelerates European AI Data Center Evolution with Next-Generation Server Portfolio
Pegatron unveiled a new high‑performance, liquid‑cooled server portfolio at CloudFest 2026, aimed at accelerating AI‑ready data centers across Europe. The flagship MS101‑2A1 combines dual AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs in a 1OU, 2‑node design, while the AS402‑2T1‑8H2 and RA4800‑64H2 deliver up...
Ionos and Bocada Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Integrated Cloud Storage and Backup Oversight for Modern IT and MSP Customers
Ionos and backup‑monitoring specialist Bocada have formed a strategic partnership to combine Ionos' cost‑efficient, S3‑compatible object storage with Bocada's AI‑driven backup oversight platform. The deal includes 90 days of free storage credits (up to $1,500) for Bocada Cloud users and 90 days...
Seagate Delivers Industry’s Highest Capacity Hard Drives with Next-Generation Mozaic 4+
Seagate announced its next‑generation Mozaic 4+ platform, the industry’s only heat‑assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) storage solution now qualified in production with two leading hyperscale cloud providers. The new drives offer up to 44 TB per disk and are positioned to evolve toward...
Frore Systems Becomes $1.64B Unicorn as the “Thermal Stack” Emerges as Foundational Infrastructure for the AI Era
Frore Systems announced a $143 million Series D round that pushes its valuation to $1.64 billion, officially making it a unicorn and bringing total funding to $340 million. The capital will fund global rollout of its AI‑focused thermal stack, including LiquidJet, LiquidJet Nexus and AirJet...
Xscape Photonics Announces $37 Million in New Funding, Launches Eight-Wavelength Laser for AI Data Center Networks
Xscape Photonics announced an additional $37 million funding round, raising its total Series A to $81 million and doubling the company’s valuation. The new capital backs the launch of FalconX, the industry’s first fully redundant ELSFP laser module that delivers eight wavelengths and...
Micron Completes Acquisition of PSMC’s Tongluo P5 Site in Taiwan
Micron Technology completed its acquisition of Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.’s P5 site in Tongluo, Taiwan, adding roughly 300,000 sq ft of 300 mm cleanroom space. The company will begin retrofitting the existing facility in March and plans to construct a second, similarly sized...
Dash0 Acquires Lumigo to Expand Agentic Observability Across AWS and Serverless
Dash0 announced the acquisition of Lumigo, a leading AWS‑native and serverless observability provider, to broaden its OpenTelemetry‑first platform. The deal adds deep Lambda expertise, LLM visibility, and AI‑driven operations capabilities, while integrating Lumigo’s Tel Aviv team. Combined, the firms will serve...
Granicus Standardizes Hybrid, Government-Grade Video Infrastructure with Wowza
Granicus, a digital‑engagement platform for more than 7,000 public‑sector agencies, continues to rely on Wowza Media Systems for its hybrid video infrastructure. The company operates roughly 70 cloud‑based Wowza instances alongside over 100 on‑prem deployments, enabling live and on‑demand streaming...
Everpure Extends ActiveCluster Support for File
Pure Storage’s Everpure platform is adding ActiveCluster for File, a policy‑driven, autonomous solution that extends high‑availability across an entire fleet of file storage systems. The feature enables continuous file access and automatic workload mobility without requiring new hardware. It integrates...
QNAP Extends QuWAN Architecture with QuWAN Express to Enhance NAS Point-to-Point VPN Connectivity Flexibility
QNAP Systems has launched QuWAN Express, a lightweight VPN solution that extends its QuWAN SD‑WAN architecture to enable encrypted point‑to‑point NAS‑to‑NAS connections without additional routers. The service leverages QNAP’s cloud‑based Super Node relay, allowing NAS devices behind firewalls or without...
Goodram/Wilk Elektronik Strengthens Its European Enterprise Storage Offering
Goodram (Wilk Elektronik) is expanding its long‑standing partnership with Kioxia to add enterprise‑class SSDs for data‑center, cloud and server applications across Europe. The new portfolio features PCIe 5.0 NVMe drives built on BiCS FLASH 3D NAND, offering high throughput, low latency and...
Embedded World 2026: Silicon Motion Showcased AI-Optimized Boot Storage and Enterprise Solutions
Silicon Motion unveiled its AI‑optimized boot storage lineup, FerriSSD and Ferri‑UFS/eMMC, at Embedded World 2026, targeting industrial, data‑center, and automotive platforms. The Ferri portfolio delivers PCIe Gen4 boot drives with power‑loss protection, encryption and long‑life support, while meeting automotive standards such...
Embedded World 2026: ATP Electronics Redefining Wearable Storage, Endurance, Memory Reliability
ATP Electronics unveiled two major storage advances at Embedded World 2026. The new E600Vc/E700Pc e.MMC, measuring just 6.7 mm, is the smallest in the market, delivers up to 70% power savings and offers 64 GB TLC or 20 GB pSLC capacities for smart‑wearable...
DataCore Puls8 Wins Kubernetes Storage Award Powering Mission-Critical Stateful Workloads
DataCore Software's Puls8, a Kubernetes‑native storage platform, won the 2026 Kubernetes Storage Award from StorageNewsletter. The solution builds on OpenEBS and the MayaData acquisition to deliver high‑performance, resilient persistent storage for stateful workloads such as databases and AI/ML pipelines. Puls8...
Cohesity Strengthens Data Protection and Security to Advance Enterprise AI Resilience
Cohesity unveiled a suite of upgrades to its data protection and security platform, adding sovereign‑cloud partnerships, integrated threat‑scanning capabilities, and a new Data Security Posture Management solution powered by Cyera. The company also launched an Enterprise AI Resilience strategy and...
3-2-1-1-0 Is the New 3-2-1 – Maximizing Data Security on Asustor
Asustor is expanding the classic 3‑2‑1 backup rule to a new 3‑2‑1‑1‑0 framework, adding an offline or immutable copy and zero‑error verification. The company’s MyArchive hardware creates air‑gapped removable drives, while its WORM storage locks data against alteration. Asustor also...
CData Expands Connect AI Platform with New Agent Tooling and Enterprise-Grade Security to Power Production AI Deployments
CData Software unveiled major upgrades to its Connect AI platform, adding a Connect Gateway that extends live, read‑write access to over 350 on‑premise and cloud data sources. The release introduces three new tool categories—Universal, Source, and Custom—allowing agents to operate...
Marvell Technology: Fiscal 4Q26 and FY26 Financial Results
Marvell Technology reported record fiscal 2026 results, posting $8.195 billion in net revenue, a 42 percent year‑over‑year increase, and a Q4 revenue record of $2.219 billion. GAAP earnings per share rose to $3.07, up 81 percent, while non‑GAAP EPS reached $2.84. The growth was...
Rubrik: Fiscal 4Q26 and FY26 Financial Results
Rubrik reported fiscal 2026 revenue of $1.32 billion, a 48% year‑over‑year decline, while subscription annual recurring revenue (ARR) surged to $1.46 billion, up 34%. Fourth‑quarter revenue rose 46% to $377.7 million and the company generated $70.1 million free cash flow, improving its cash position...
Nvidia GTC 2026: Wiwynn Showcases Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 AI Factory Infrastructure
At GTC 2026, Wiwynn unveiled a suite of Nvidia‑powered AI factory solutions built with Wistron, featuring the liquid‑cooled Vera Rubin NVL72 platform that unifies 72 GPUs and 36 CPUs. The announcement highlighted up to ten‑fold performance‑per‑watt gains, fanless HGX Rubin NVL8...
Nvidia GTC 2026: MiTAC Accelerates Next-Gen AI with Turnkey Solutions and Flexible Nvidia MGX
At Nvidia GTC 2026, MiTAC Computing unveiled a new line of MGX‑based 4U AI servers designed for large‑scale training, inference and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) workloads. The flagship platform supports up to eight double‑width GPUs, dual AMD EPYC Venice or Intel Xeon 6700P...
Nvidia GTC 2026: Hyve Solutions Shares What It Actually Takes to Build AI Infrastructure at Scale
Hyve Solutions, a TD SYNNEX subsidiary, showcased its AI infrastructure platform Hyve Orion at Nvidia’s GTC 2026 in San Jose. The Orion system leverages Nvidia’s latest HGX Rubin NVL8 accelerator to deliver hyperscale compute for demanding AI workloads. SVP of global engineering Rami Khouri...
Nvidia GTC 2026: HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 Becomes First Nvidia-Certified Storage Object-Based Platform for Enterprise AI
HPE announced that its Alletra Storage MP X10000 has earned Nvidia‑Certified Storage Foundation validation, becoming the first object‑based platform to achieve this milestone. The certification confirms the system can sustain AI workloads scaling to 128 GPUs, delivering the throughput and...
Nvidia GTC 2026: KIOXIA Announces New SSD Model Optimized for AI GPU-Initiated Workloads
At Nvidia’s GTC 2026, KIOXIA unveiled its new Super High IOPS SSD, the GP Series, designed for direct GPU access in AI workloads. The drive leverages KIOXIA’s XL‑FLASH storage class memory to deliver higher IOPS, 512‑byte granularity, and lower power...
Nvidia GTC 2026: Solidigm Introduces Luceta AI Software Suite AI Vision Platform
Solidigm unveiled the Luceta AI software suite, an end‑to‑end vision platform that lets enterprises build, deploy and continuously improve visual models for manufacturing, logistics, retail and more. The suite bundles a Data Agent, Model Agent, Pipeline Manager and Adaptive Agent,...
Nvidia GTC 2026: DDN Launches IndustrySync Pipelines for Financial Services and Life Sciences AI
DDN announced IndustrySync Pipelines, pre‑integrated AI data workflows for Financial Services and Life Sciences, deployable on its HyperPOD platform in days instead of months. The Financial Services pipeline promises up to 150× faster risk simulations and five‑minute risk metric refreshes,...
Nvidia GTC 2026: Vdura Unveils RDMA Support and Context-Aware Tiering for GPU-Native AI Infrastructure
Vdura announced GPU‑native RDMA support for its Data Platform, allowing direct memory access between GPUs and storage without CPU involvement. The company also previewed Phase 1 of Context‑Aware Tiering, which will automatically move data across local NVMe SSD, DRAM and persistent...
SPhotonix Debuts at Library of Congress Designing Storage Architecture Event
SPhotonix showcased its FemtoEtch 5‑D optical data storage technology at the Library of Congress "Designing Storage Architecture" event, highlighting its high‑density, long‑life solution for archival needs. The presentation stressed the looming AI‑driven data explosion, projecting 527 ZB of stored data by...
NGX Storage Launches New Product: NGX ExaScale
NGX Storage unveiled NGX ExaScale, a software‑defined, scale‑out storage platform delivering true end‑to‑end NVMe performance over both TCP and RDMA. The system scales from three to thirty nodes, offering up to 80 petabytes of usable capacity and 200 Gbps throughput per node...
OWC Launches Storage and Connectivity Solutions for Apple’s New MacBook Neo
Other World Computing (OWC) unveiled a suite of storage and connectivity accessories tailored for Apple’s newly released MacBook Neo. The lineup includes a USB‑C Travel Dock with five ports and 100 W power delivery, the Envoy portable NVMe SSDs ranging from...
Confirmed, Vast Data Raised $1 Billion at $30 Billion Valuation
Vast Data announced a $1 billion financing round, pushing its valuation to roughly $30 billion. The round was split evenly, with $500 million of new capital and $500 million of secondary‑market liquidity for early investors. The funding underscores the market’s confidence in Vast Data’s...
EDF Pulse Ventures Partners with Mara and NJJ to Support a New Phase of Exaion’s Development
EDF Pulse Ventures completed a transaction giving it a 64% stake in French HPC provider Exaion after regulatory clearance, while NJJ Capital acquired a 10% interest in Mara France, the partner that facilitated the deal. The agreement expands the Exaion...
Legalweek 2026: HYCU Showcases Legal 360, the First Matter-Centric Resilience Solution for Law Firms
HYCU unveiled Legal 360 at Legalweek 2026, a matter‑centric resilience platform built for law firms and legal departments. The solution unifies protection for iManage Cloud, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, DocuSign and hybrid infrastructure, delivering automated backups, granular recovery, and immutable copies. A previewed...
Tech Mahindra and Rubrik Announce Partnership to Deliver Advanced Cyber Recovery and Resilience Solutions for Global Enterprises
Tech Mahindra and Rubrik have teamed up to launch an AI‑powered Cyber Recovery as a Service (CRaaS) aimed at global enterprises. The joint solution blends Tech Mahindra’s end‑to‑end cybersecurity expertise with Rubrik’s data security platform to deliver rapid, clean restoration...
Scaling AI for Everyone
OpenAI announced a $110 billion financing round that values the company at $730 billion pre‑money, with $30 billion each from SoftBank and Nvidia and $50 billion from Amazon. The capital backs a strategic partnership with Amazon and next‑generation inference compute from Nvidia, expanding global...
Corporate Value of the Global AI and Semiconductor Companies Invested by SK Square Increased up to Sevenfold in Two Years
South Korean conglomerate SK Square disclosed a KRW 30 billion investment in seven U.S. and Japanese AI and semiconductor startups, including data‑orchestration specialist Hammerspace. The fund, part of a KRW 100 billion program, has already generated outsized returns, with d‑Matrix’s market value soaring more...
Akave Raises $6.65M to Challenge Traditional Cloud Storage with Compute-Agnostic Platform Built for AI Applications
Akave has launched Akave Cloud, a decentralized, S3‑compatible storage platform built on Avalanche’s Layer 1 blockchain, targeting AI and analytics workloads. The service offers flat‑rate pricing at $14.99 per terabyte per month with zero egress fees, on‑chain verifiable audit trails, and...
OSS Announces $10.5 Million in New Awards to Support U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon Aircraft Program
One Stop Systems (OSS) secured $10.5 million in new awards from the U.S. Navy and a prime defense contractor to supply rugged NVMe storage units for the P‑8A Poseidon aircraft. The contracts cover hot‑swappable, high‑capacity flash canisters designed for secure, rapid...
Micron Sets New Benchmark with the World’s First High-Capacity 256GB LPDRAM SOCAMM2 for Data Center Infrastructure
Micron Technology announced the shipment of its 256 GB SOCAMM2 LPDRAM module, the first server memory built on a monolithic 32 Gb LPDDR5X die. The new module delivers one‑third the power consumption and footprint of comparable RDIMMs while offering 1.33 times more capacity...
SK Hynix and Sandisk Begin Global Standardization of Next-Gen Memory ‘HBF’
SK hynix and SanDisk announced a joint initiative to standardize High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), a new memory tier positioned between high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) and solid‑state drives (SSD). The partners will create a dedicated workstream under the Open Compute Project to...
Cohesity Expands Data Security Portfolio with Cyera’s Industry-Leading DSPM to Future-Proof Cyber Resilience
Data security firm Cohesity announced the launch of Cohesity Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), powered by Cyera’s AI‑native platform. The solution provides agent‑less, high‑precision discovery and classification of sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and AI workloads, achieving up to 95 %...
Delinea Completes StrongDM Acquisition to Secure AI Agents with Continuous Identity Authorization
Security vendor Delinea has completed its acquisition of StrongDM, a provider of just‑in‑time runtime authorization for modern engineering environments. The combined platform merges Delinea’s enterprise privileged access management with StrongDM’s AI‑agent focused access controls, creating a unified identity security plane...
