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Artificial Intelligence

HPE helps enterprises drive agentic and physical AI innovation with systems accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell and the latest NVIDIA AI models

August 13, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE helps enterprises drive agentic and physical AI innovation with systems accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell and the latest NVIDIA AI models
HPE will ship HPE ProLiant Compute servers with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, now with a 2U form factor.

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E-commerce

HPE makes major addition to retail technology at NRF retail show

February 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE makes major addition to retail technology at NRF retail show
The new solutions take HPE’s networking innovations and combine them with their knowledge of retail to build a better retail network.

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Servers

Intel focuses on efficiency, AI wth upcoming Xeons

February 27, 2024 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Intel focuses on efficiency, AI wth upcoming Xeons
The chipmaker makes a case for massive numbers of efficiency cores to bring AI to the core of the 5G network.

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Artificial Intelligence

HPE introduces new AI-native architecture and hybrid cloud solutions

November 30, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE introduces new AI-native architecture and hybrid cloud solutions
HPE emphasized that Generative AI requires an architecture which is fundamentally different and more powerful than cloud-native architecture, and they unveiled it, along with related AI-native offerings.

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Artificial Intelligence

HPE, NVIDIA expand strategic partnership with new enterprise computing solution for Generative AI

November 30, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE, NVIDIA expand strategic partnership with new enterprise computing solution for Generative AI
The new joint solution is designed as a turnkey solution for enterprises who don’t want to develop their own AI models.

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Artificial Intelligence

Intel CEO Gelsinger lays out vision of how developers will rule the Siliconomy

September 25, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intel CEO Gelsinger lays out vision of how developers will rule the Siliconomy
Gelsinger combined his vision for the company’s future with new announcements and the short and medium term road map to highlight the extensive changes coming, particularly from the rise of AI.

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Lenovo announces new TruScale for Edge and new high-end AI server

September 20, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo announces new TruScale for Edge and new high-end AI server
Lenovo, which is in attendance at the Intel Innovation 2023 event here in San Jose, made a very significant announcement of their own, beefing up their AI portfolio on multiple fronts at an event where AI was centre stage.

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Artificial Intelligence

Lenovo, VMware extend strategic partnership around new Generative AI solutions

August 30, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo, VMware extend strategic partnership around new Generative AI solutions
NVIDIA is the third member of this collaboration, which brings multiple new turnkey Generative AI and multi-cloud solutions to market.

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Artificial Intelligence

Lenovo enhances and refreshes storage and server solutions

July 18, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo enhances and refreshes storage and server solutions
These new data management solutions include  new Storage Arrays  that make it easier for organizations to enable AI workloads.

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Servers

Barracuda simplifies cloud SaaS purchasing with two simplified security bundles

April 19, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda simplifies cloud SaaS purchasing with two simplified security bundles
The two bundles, which make the customer’s path to purchase much simpler and faster, will also benefit Barracuda channel partners by making their lives easier.

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Artificial Intelligence

Lenovo and WEKA announce new global deal around AI, ML and HPC workloads

February 21, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo and WEKA announce new global deal around AI, ML and HPC workloads
The new integration of Lenovo ThinkSystem Ready Nodes in ThinkSystem Servers with WEKA Data Platform software provides a broad horizontal play.

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Cloud

HPE adds support for data storage servers to cloud-native Alletra portfolio with Alletra 4000 series

January 10, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE adds support for data storage servers to cloud-native Alletra portfolio with Alletra 4000 series
The latest in HPE’s cloud-native Alletra line comes in two models, a 1U one designed for extreme use cases and a 2U that fits a broader range of use cases.

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Hyper-converged

StorMagic, HPE extend partnership around HPE ProLiant MicroServer

November 15, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorMagic, HPE extend partnership around HPE ProLiant MicroServer

StorMagic SvSAN, which has been a strategic partner of HPE for several years and is part of the HPE Complete program that takes complementary solutions to market with HPE products, has validated their software with the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Platform.

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Artificial Intelligence

Dell Technologies unveils new Quantum Computing solution

November 14, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies unveils new Quantum Computing solution

While the Quantum announcement is the most interesting from a technology perspective, today Dell is also announcing new Dell PowerEdge servers for high-performance computing, and an HPC service offering, Dell APEX High Performance Computing.

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Cloud

New Compute Ops Management capability in Proliant Gen11 servers introduces new type of services for HPE GreenLake

November 8, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Compute Ops Management capability in Proliant Gen11 servers introduces new type of services for HPE GreenLake
The new capability is slated to be the first of several for the GreenLake platform that introduces broader management tools for customers.

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Hardware

Lenovo celebrates 30th anniversary of ThinkSystem servers with major portfolio enhancements

September 23, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo celebrates 30th anniversary of ThinkSystem servers with major portfolio enhancements
They include new Lenovo V3 Infrastructure solutions, a new Lenovo XClarity One cloud-based software management platform, and the fifth generation of Lenovo Neptune water-cooling technology.

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Cloud

Lenovo announces joint hybrid and edge solutions with VMware at Explore event

September 7, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo announces joint hybrid and edge solutions with VMware at Explore event
Lenovo announced enhanced collaborations with VMware around their ThinkAgile VX, TruScale Hybrid Cloud and the VMware Edge Compute Stack, as well as a partnership with Micron which uses their NVME SSDs, vSAN ESA and  Lenovo ThinkAgile VX to provide all NVMe storage.

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Hardware

Semiconductor pseudo-startup Solidigm broadens portfolio to deepen HPE relationship

July 11, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Semiconductor pseudo-startup Solidigm broadens portfolio to deepen HPE relationship
Solidigm, which is technically a startup, but given that much of their original technology came from Intel, and the rest from South Korean semiconductor giant SK hynix, really isn’t, has broadened out its portfolio, and is looking to broaden their strategic relationships with HPE and other vendors.

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Servers

Hewlett Packard Enterprise partners with Ampere to provide cloud-native silicon for service providers and cloud-focused enterprises.

June 29, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hewlett Packard Enterprise partners with Ampere to provide cloud-native silicon for service providers and cloud-focused enterprises.
The new HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server is the first in a series of HPE ProLiant RL Gen11 servers with greater compute performance stemming from a partnership with Ampere and its Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max cloud-native processors that generates a high density core and better power efficiency.

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Cloud

New Toronto data centre to be key element in OVHcloud expansion

June 21, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Toronto data centre to be key element in OVHcloud expansion
OVHCloud just celebrated their tenth anniversary in Canada, and while to date their facilities have been in Montreal, they plan to open up a Toronto data centre next year.

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