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Akamai Inference Cloud gains early traction as AI moves to the edge

November 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Akamai Inference Cloud gains early traction as AI moves to the edge
Organizations are putting the technology to work to improve response times and revenue, from live video intelligence to context-aware chatbots and AI-powered consumer products, and why the company just announced Akamai Inference Cloud, a platform that redefines where and how AI is used by expanding inference from core data centres to the edge of the internet.

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Data Centre

D&H Canada reignites with Dell  to expand line card with Dell solutions and services

November 7, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on D&H Canada reignites with Dell  to expand line card with Dell solutions and services
The revival of an old strategic partnership between D&H and Dell reflects the distributor’s desire to expand their line card and to invest in advancing partner growth.

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Artificial Intelligence

Armada and OpenAI partner to produce smaller, industry-specific AI models

October 27, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Armada and OpenAI partner to produce smaller, industry-specific AI models
Edge computing vendor Armada and OpenAI  have launched a strategic collaboration with OpenAI which is focused on the deployment of AI applications at the edge, specifically through smaller, industry-specific AI models.

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Artificial Intelligence

Ultraconverged Infrastructure [UCI] pioneer VergeOS launches VergeOS 26 with VergeIQ and its AI-focused abilities

October 23, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ultraconverged Infrastructure [UCI] pioneer VergeOS launches VergeOS 26 with VergeIQ and its AI-focused abilities
VergeOS 26 modernizes infrastructure while VergeIQ, integrated within it, has features like shared LLM, OpenAI-compatible services, vendor-agnostic GPU support, and generative AI intelligence.

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Artificial Intelligence

Blumira introduces  SOC Auto-Focus AI and an enhanced MSP Partner Program

October 16, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Blumira introduces  SOC Auto-Focus AI and an enhanced MSP Partner Program
SOC Auto Focus was created to help MSPs and IT teams work smarter, as was the new Blumira MSP Program.

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Artificial Intelligence

d-Matrix announces SquadRack rack-scale solution to provide AI Inference at data centre scale 

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on d-Matrix announces SquadRack rack-scale solution to provide AI Inference at data centre scale 
Generative AI inference trailblazer d-Matrix partners with Arista, Broadcom and Supermicro to create the industry’s first blueprint for disaggregated standards-based rack-scale solutions for ultra-low latency batched inference.  

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Agent

VDURA names Garth Gibson Chief Technology and AI Officer to reinvent storage stack for AI era

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on VDURA names Garth Gibson Chief Technology and AI Officer to reinvent storage stack for AI era
Garth Gibson, who has a well-regarded history around AI and HPC, discusses his vision about where VDURA and technology in general are going, as well as the likely impact on VDURA’s channel partners.

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Artificial Intelligence

Dell makes major storage announcements on product, integration and private clouds

September 24, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell makes major storage announcements on product, integration and private clouds
Dell unveiled new PowerStore and PowerMax QLC models, a new Dell PowerFlex Ultra release, both high end and entry level Data Domain product, an extended Nutanix partnership, and new strength around their Private Cloud and Native Edge offerings.

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Artificial Intelligence

Mueon launches from Stealth with modular ‘Cubelets’ to redefine data centres for AI Era

September 23, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Mueon launches from Stealth with modular ‘Cubelets’ to redefine data centres for AI Era
Mueon brings a $15.5M seed funding round, and modular Cubelets that optimize compute, memory, power, and thermal management to unlock exponential performance improvements.

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Artificial Intelligence

Sentra unveils AI solution to secure Microsoft 365 Copilot Security

September 19, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sentra unveils AI solution to secure Microsoft 365 Copilot Security
Sentra enables safeguarding sensitive enterprise data with the power of Copilot without sacrificing data security or compliance.

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Data Centre

ExtraHop, CrowdStrike extend partnership to break down data silos and assist federated search

September 19, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on ExtraHop, CrowdStrike extend partnership to break down data silos and assist federated search
Building on recent integrations with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, NDR vendor ExtraHop and cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike have expanded their relationship, and are now working together, in order to further unify data and deliver faster, simpler investigations.

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Agent

LogicMonitor adds new capabilities to its platform and AI data centres

September 17, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on LogicMonitor adds new capabilities to its platform and AI data centres
LogicMonitor has beefed up its Edwin AI agent’s architecture with more than ten specialized agents that detect, diagnose and correct, announced GA of their LM Uptime and Dynamic Service Insights, declared additional hyperscaler support for Oracle Cloud and introduced a new platform pricing model.

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Artificial Intelligence

SIEM vendor Securonix and MDR provider Cipher collaborate on AI-powered Managed Security Services for channel

September 17, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on SIEM vendor Securonix and MDR provider Cipher collaborate on AI-powered Managed Security Services for channel
The strategic partnership between Securonix and Cipher will let channel partners deliver their own scalable, AI-powered security operations without the overhead of building and managing their own SOC.

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Artificial Intelligence

NetApp unveils object storage for unstructured data with StorageGRID 12.0

September 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp unveils object storage for unstructured data with StorageGRID 12.0
The new StorageGRID capabilities in their software-defined S3-compatible object storage solution boost performance for AI workloads and simplify cyber resiliency.

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Artificial Intelligence

Proofpoint’s 2025 Voice of the CISO Report shows increased AI Risk, record burnout

September 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Proofpoint’s 2025 Voice of the CISO Report shows increased AI Risk, record burnout
With the persistent people problem in Cybersecurity, 76% of CISOs anticipate a material cyberattack in the next year, with human risk and GenAI-driven data loss topping their concerns.

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Artificial Intelligence

HPE reworks Juniper Networking portfolio with native Mist Agentic AI-native Innovations

August 26, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE reworks Juniper Networking portfolio with native Mist Agentic AI-native Innovations
New enhancements announced include agentic AI-powered troubleshooting, expanded visibility and control of self-driving network operations, a generalized Large Experience Model (LEM) and new AIOps features for data centres.

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Data Centre

Ericsson unveils new generation of enterprise solutions with x20 5G

February 18, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ericsson unveils new generation of enterprise solutions with x20 5G
This new wave of solutions, which will hit the market this April, will be targeted at carriers and their SMB customers.

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Data Centre

D&H Canada adds Lenovo data centre lineup

September 19, 2024 Robert Dutt Comments Off on D&H Canada adds Lenovo data centre lineup
The distributor expands its relationship with Lenovo to include its Infrastructure Solutions Group, and will look to get solutions providers selling Lenovo PCs to expand their horizons into the data centre.

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Artificial Intelligence

Michael Dell lays out vision to get enterprises to reimagine organizations for AI future

May 22, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Michael Dell lays out vision to get enterprises to reimagine organizations for AI future
Last year, Dell Technologies World saw the company lay out its plan for its AI future. This year, the company made considerable progress, translating concepts into product, building out a much more detailed road map and rendering some things introduced last year obsolete.

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Artificial Intelligence

Intel lays out foundry vision and announces Intel Foundry

February 26, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intel lays out foundry vision and announces Intel Foundry
Intel CEO announced the creation of Intel Foundry, which with Intel Products now becomes two symbiotic parts of Intel, and also announced a new partnership with Arm, which Intel said is now their most important.

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