AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’
…We know AWS buys custom hardware, but assuming the company sticks to standard form factor we therefore believe S3 uses about 276 million hard drives. * In the post, Stormacq ranked S3’s…
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The agentic AI boom is here; operations will decide who wins
…The Nutanix Agentic AI solution helps customers move from "racked and stacked" hardware to a "running and regulated" environment built for inference at scale. Nutanix Agentic AI makes that shift possible by…
Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11
…We’re told it’s “designed to play your Xbox console and PC games” and will feature a custom SoC from AMD that “delivers an order of magnitude leap in ray tracing…
Google battles Chinese open weights models with Gemma 4
…With its latest release, Google is offering enterprise customers a domestic alternative, but one that won't just hoover up sensitive corporate data to train future models. Developed by Google's DeepMind…
Microsoft promises multi database wrangling hub on Fabric
…Shireesh Thota, Microsoft corporate vice president for databases, said: "With databases built natively into Microsoft Fabric, we're helping customers modernize SQL, unify their data estate, and build AI-native applications faster…
Nvidia GTC 2026: What to expect at AI Burning Man
…Extending Nvidia's CUDA hardware stack to include Groq's dataflow architecture will not be easy. At GTC, Nvidia might announce it will add limited support for Groq's existing architecture relatively…
Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow
…It sported seven PCIe slots – but the problem was that cash-rich customers couldn't add the sorts of expansion that normally go into a PCIe slot… to the extent that Apple…
CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge
…CERN burns custom nanosecond-speed AI into the silicon itself just to eliminate excess data. Like the major league pitcher who comes to his kid's take-your-parent-to-school day…
Apple's chips are winners, but Windows fails help it most
…Macbook Neo at the same price point on two vital points - the quality of the hardware, and what happens when you switch it on. There are lots of things that some Windows…
A closer look at Nvidia's Groq-powered LPX rack systems
…The chip doesn't use Nvidia's proprietary NVLink interconnect, it lacks NVFP4 hardware support, and it isn't CUDA-compatible at launch. We can therefore conclude that the $20 billion paid…