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StorageReview.comDell XPS 16 Creator Edition Review: RTX Spark N1X Holds Full Speed in a 17.8mm Chassis
The Dell XPS 16 Creator Edition is the first XPS built on NVIDIA’s RTX Spark N1X, and Dell has put the chip in what it calls the thinnest…
StorageReview.comOne Array for AI: Inside the IBM FlashSystem and Broadcom Fibre Channel Architecture Behind Oracle AI Database 26ai
The biggest AI infrastructure decision many enterprises make in the next year won’t be a GPU investment; it will be a database upgrade. Oracle AI…
StorageReview.comAMD Helios Racks Are Running at Meta, With a Custom Instinct GPU and a $1 Billion Stake to Follow
AMD says the first AMD Helios rackscale systems are installed and under test at Meta, with a broader deployment to follow, and that the two companies have…
StorageReview.com72-GPU NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Racks Anchor OCI’s Planned Multi-Gigawatt Expansion
NVIDIA and Oracle plan to expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Superclusters with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to multi-gigawatt scale, and both Vera…
StorageReview.comIBM FlashSystem Flags Data Theft in the Drive Before Ransomware Encrypts, Under 1% False Positives
IBM FlashSystem 5600, 7600, and 9600 arrays built on the fifth-generation IBM FlashCore Module now detect data exfiltration inside the drive, next to the…
StorageReview.comSeagate Exos M HAMR SMR Drives Join Broadcom’s eHBA 9600 Approved Vendor List After Azure Qualification
Seagate announced that its Mozaic hard drives built on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and configured for shingled magnetic recording (SMR) have been…
StorageReview.comOllama 0.40.11 Hands-On: Running Local LLMs on Windows
Ollama 0.40.11 gives Windows users a desktop chat application and a local model runtime for other software. Ollama has also moved beyond its original…
StorageReview.comSamsung Portable SSD P9 Review: 4,000MB/s USB4 Reads in a Metal Shell That Peaks at 40C
The Samsung Portable SSD P9 is the company’s first USB4 portable drive, rated at 4,000MB/s read and 3,800MB/s write. That’s double the T9 it sits…
StorageReview.comVertiv SmartIT Ships Factory-Validated MGX and ORV3 Racks for GB300 and Rubin: 120 to 142kW per Rack, 242kW N+1 Liquid Cooling
Vertiv announced SmartIT, a pre-engineered rack architecture that packages the rack, DC power conversion and distribution, direct-to-chip liquid cooling…
StorageReview.comOracle Acceleron Adds Front-End RDMA, an NCCL and RCCL Plugin for Multiplanar Failover, and 3x NVMe Block Storage Performance on OCI
Oracle announced a second round of Oracle Acceleron capabilities at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, a year after the networking suite first bundled dedicated…
StorageReview.comSparxity, Formerly SpiNNcloud, Deploys JUBIS Sparse-Native Rack at Jülich Supercomputing Centre With 10x Solver and 18x Energy Claims
Sparxity, the Dresden company that until today was SpiNNcloud, announced the deployment of a sparse-native computing rack system at the Jülich Supercomputing…
StorageReview.comMicron’s Next NAND Is G11, Not G10: 400-Plus Layers, 2x Density, and a 512TB SSD Ceiling on a 2H 2027 Ramp
Micron’s next NAND node is G11, with no G10 between it and the G9 flash in its SSDs today. The density chart in the deck for Micron’s October 21…
StorageReview.comInside Mercedes F1’s COTA 2026 Race Weekend With HPE: The Car Is Never Finished
Kimi Antonelli won the United States Grand Prix from pole on a one-stop, beating Charles Leclerc by 13.078 seconds with Max Verstappen third; the pit wall held…
StorageReview.comSpectra Logic Storage Reclaim Packages Tape, BlackPearl, and Data Movers Into Six Configurations From 1PB to 24PB to Free Flash
Spectra Logic today announced availability of Spectra Storage Reclaim, a packaged combination of analysis software, data movers, BlackPearl object storage…
StorageReview.comDell Ships Quantum-Safe Fibre Channel Encryption on PowerStore in November, Adds Identity Recovery and AI Factory Hardening to PowerProtect
Dell Technologies today expanded its cyber resilience portfolio across AI environments, identity systems, and storage infrastructure. The piece that matters…
StorageReview.comLenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 9 Review: Panther Lake and a 50W RTX PRO 2000 in the Thin ThinkPad Flagship
The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 9 is Lenovo’s thin flagship mobile workstation. This 16-inch machine carries the premium features the rest of the ThinkPad P…
StorageReview.comCisco IQ Goes GA for Partners With an MCP Server, Model Foundry, and a Quantum-Resilient Wi-Fi 7 AP
Cisco today made Cisco IQ generally available to partners at Cisco Partner Summit in Vancouver, opening the support platform’s telemetry and automation…
StorageReview.comDedicated Smartbird AI Clusters Integrate WEKA NeuralMesh for Managed Enterprise AI
Smartbird and WEKA have announced a partnership that puts WEKA NeuralMesh inside Smartbird’s dedicated AI clusters, sold as a managed service for…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA Minerva Brings AIOps to AI Factories Through Dell, Lenovo, and Supermicro
NVIDIA announced Minerva at GTC Berlin, an AIOps platform that pulls telemetry from GPUs, networking, storage, schedulers, and the AI workloads running on…
StorageReview.comAMD and Intel Make oneDNN the Default x86 Path in PyTorch, Folding ZenDNN In and Lining Up AI Compute Extensions
AMD and Intel announced that they will combine their x86 CPU optimization work for PyTorch in oneDNN, the open-source deep learning library governed by the…
StorageReview.comSupermicro NVIDIA Vera CPU Rack: 256 Vera CPUs, 400TB of LPDDR5X, and 22,500 Agent Sandboxes in a 208kW Liquid-Cooled 48U
Supermicro announced the NVIDIA Vera CPU rack today, a 48U, 100 percent liquid-cooled rack that holds 256 NVIDIA Vera CPUs, 22,528 cores, and 45,056 threads…
StorageReview.comVAST Agent Sandbox Foundation Stack Puts NVIDIA OpenShell Sandboxes on Zero-Copy Clones and Logs Every Tool Call
VAST Data announced the Agent Sandbox Foundation Stack with NVIDIA at NVIDIA GTC Berlin, a reference architecture that runs NVIDIA NemoClaw agents inside…
StorageReview.comPodcast #155: Micron’s 245TB SSD and What Extreme Density Enables at Scale
Brian hosted Bill Bollengier, Senior Director of Product Management at Micron, for a live podcast on LinkedIn on October 15, with Bill calling in from the…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA GTC Berlin: 14-Day DSX POD AI Factories, a 2.5x Substrate Buildout, and the OpenShell Reference Architecture
NVIDIA’s GTC Berlin announcements today span containerized Vera Rubin infrastructure, a 2.5x expansion of its substrate supply, and software for AI…
StorageReview.comDeepL Deploys the VAST AI Operating System for Voice Translation Training, Expecting 3x the Capacity From Its Existing NVMe
VAST Data announced that DeepL is deploying the VAST AI Operating System as the data foundation for the research environments behind its written and real-time…
StorageReview.comDell AI Factory with NVIDIA Adds a 256-CPU Vera Rack, a Groq 3 LPU Inference Rack, and a 64GB GB10 Desktop
Dell Technologies expanded the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA today at NVIDIA GTC Berlin with a 48U PowerEdge M9882 rack holding 256 NVIDIA Vera CPUs for agentic…
StorageReview.comNutanix Private Inference System With Supermicro Puts Eight NVIDIA B300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs per Node Behind Dedicated NX Management and Storage Clusters, Ships Early 2027
Nutanix announced three collaborations today at NVIDIA GTC Berlin: a jointly engineered private inference system with Supermicro built on servers with eight…
StorageReview.comCoreWeave Physical AI Launchables Put Isaac Sim, CARLA, and MuJoCo Behind One Command, With a Six-Layer Zero Trust AI Framework
CoreWeave launched Physical AI Launchables and the CoreWeave Zero Trust AI Framework today at NVIDIA GTC Berlin. Launchables is a catalog of tested…
StorageReview.comHPE Private Cloud AI Adds MCP Servers, Mixed H200 and RTX PRO 6000 Clusters, and a 256-CPU NVIDIA Vera Rack
HPE announced updates to HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA today at NVIDIA GTC Berlin, and most of the changes land in HPE Private Cloud AI. Developers, independent…
StorageReview.comDell Pro Precision 9 T2 Review: Xeon 6 Brings Four Channels of DDR5-6400 and E3.S to the Single-GPU Tower
The Dell Pro Precision 9 T2 is the Xeon version of the single-GPU tower we reviewed a year ago as the Dell Pro Max Tower T2, and it arrives with two changes at…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA JUPITER Quantum Simulation Models a 104-Qubit Fault-Tolerant Processor Across 8,192 GH200 GPUs and 512 TiB
NVIDIA has run a 104-qubit simulation of a fault-tolerant quantum processor on JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer at the Jülich…
StorageReview.comHPE Spaceborne Computer-4 Will Run AI Inference on the Moon Aboard Astrolab’s FLIP Rover
HPE announced HPE Spaceborne Computer-4, a compute module that will run AI inference and what HPE says will be the first HPC benchmarks on the Moon. Loaded…
StorageReview.comNeo4j Context Engine Gives AI Agents a Shared Knowledge Layer, 6-Layer Business Ontology, and Graph-Native Memory
Neo4j announced the Neo4j Context Engine today, a product built to give AI agents a shared, reusable knowledge layer for reasoning over enterprise data. The…
StorageReview.comOpen WebUI Desktop Hands-On: Running Local LLMs on Windows
Open WebUI combines chat, model management, files, web search, tool calling, image support, knowledge features, and API access in one local AI interface. For…
StorageReview.comMeta Prometheus: Inside the Gigawatt Supercluster Scaling to 1 Million GPUs on GB200 and GB300 NVL72
Meta published a detailed look inside Prometheus today, the gigawatt-scale AI supercluster it is building in New Albany, Ohio. The first phase is complete and…
StorageReview.comHP OmniBook Ultra 16 Review: RTX Spark With 128GB Tops Our Local Coding Agent Test
The HP OmniBook Ultra 16 is HP’s 16-inch NVIDIA RTX Spark notebook, a 0.62-inch-thick laptop built around NVIDIA’s N1X superchip and a 3K OLED…
StorageReview.comLenovo Yoga 9n 2-in-1 16 Review: The Coolest-Running RTX Spark Notebook
The Lenovo Yoga 9n 2-in-1 16 puts the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X into a convertible: a 16-inch OLED touchscreen on a hinge that folds into tablet and tent modes, a…
StorageReview.comLenovo Pro 9n 15 Review: 18-Core RTX Spark Keeps Pace With 20 Cores and Runs Cooler
The Lenovo Pro 9n 15 is Lenovo’s 15.3-inch NVIDIA RTX Spark clamshell for creators, with a 165Hz 2.5K OLED display, a pen-enabled haptic touchpad, and an…
StorageReview.comLeostream Cloud Connects Remote Users to Specific Workstations Without a VPN Through an Outbound Agent
Leostream announced Leostream Cloud, a cloud-based remote access service, available now, that connects authorized users directly to physical and cloud-hosted…
StorageReview.comXCENA MX1 CXL Computational Memory Shares a KV Cache Across Inference Servers and Powers SK hynix CXL Hybrid Memory at OCP 2026
XCENA showed two AI inference demonstrations built on its MX1 CXL computational memory at the OCP Global Summit 2026 in San Jose: a KV cache shared across…
StorageReview.comSP Industrial Enterprise SSD Lineup Adds PCIe Gen5 E1.S and U.2 Drives up to 15.3TB With eTLC and 3 DWPD Options
SP Industrial introduced six enterprise SSDs, spanning E1.S, U.2, M.2 2280, and 2.5-inch SATA form factors, aimed at AI and data center storage as well as…
StorageReview.comVeeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365 Goes GA With File-by-File Undo for AI Agent Changes
Veeam made Intelligent ResOps (iResOps) for Microsoft 365 generally available today, the first iResOps product to reach general availability since Veeam…
StorageReview.comMicrosoft Surface Laptop Ultra for Business Review: RTX Spark N1X Runs a 35B-Parameter Coding Agent at 89 Tokens per Second, With One Major Caveat
The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra for Business is the first Surface laptop built on NVIDIA silicon, and the first RTX Spark system to get a review from us…
StorageReview.comSamsung CXL Memory Pooling Demo With AMD at OCP 2026 Claims 38 Percent Lower TTFT and 3.3x Goodput for Agentic AI
Samsung is showing a CXL memory pool validated with AMD at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose this week, built on its CMM-D CXL memory modules and aimed at…
StorageReview.comCelestica DS6005 Puts 102.4Tbps of Co-Packaged Optics and 64 1.6TbE Ports in a 1.5OU Liquid-Cooled ORv3 Switch
Celestica introduced the DS6005 at the OCP Global Summit, a co-packaged optics (CPO) data center switch that puts 102.4Tbps of switching capacity and 64…
StorageReview.comBest Enterprise GPUs 2026: PCIe AI Accelerators, Lab-Tested and Ranked
Published October 14, 2026. Five PCIe accelerators ranked on one vLLM container and one model set, with the H100 NVL in Also Tested; the H200 NVL carries a…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition Review: L40S Throughput at 165W in a Single Slot
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition is the card NVIDIA built for the servers most enterprises already own. It is a single-slot, passively cooled…
StorageReview.comAstera Labs Orion Scales 8 to 160 Accelerators on a 320-Lane PCIe Fabric With Any GPU, as Aries 7 Brings PCIe 7 Retimers and Optics
Astera Labs has announced Orion, a rack-scale reference design that lets a neocloud or enterprise pick its GPUs and CPUs after the rack is built. Accelerators…
StorageReview.comSupermicro OCP Accepted Portfolio Adds 48V Busbar ORv3 Racks, a 250 kW In-Rack CDU, and a 102.4 Tbps CPO Switch
Supermicro announced an expanded line of Open Compute Project Accepted systems, racks, and rear door heat exchangers, all delivered through its Data Center…
StorageReview.comMSI OCP 2026: Four Liquid-Cooled CG681-S6093 MGX Servers Put Up to 32 RTX PRO 6000 GPUs in One 48RU Rack
MSI is showing a 48RU NVIDIA MGX rack at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose this week, built from four liquid-cooled CG681-S6093 servers stacked under an NVIDIA…
StorageReview.comJan v0.8.6 Hands-On: Running Local LLMs on Windows
Running large language models locally has become much easier over the past couple of years, but a gap remains between downloading a model and having a useful…
StorageReview.comLightwell Has Fixed 400 Previously Unknown Java Vulnerabilities as IBM and Red Hat Open Clearinghouse for Priority Patches
IBM and Red Hat said on October 6 that Lightwell, the open-source security program the two companies funded with $5 billion in May, has found, fixed, and…
StorageReview.comMarvell Structera X 3406 and 3506 Put Six DDR4 or DDR5 Channels and Four Hosts on One CXL 3.2 Expander
Marvell announced its second-generation Structera X CXL memory expanders at the OCP Global Summit, moving the line to six memory channels, four-host sharing…
StorageReview.comIBM Bob Goes Self-Hosted: Air-Gapped Agentic Development With Nemotron and Poolside Laguna On Premises
IBM announced a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob on October 1, bringing its agentic software development platform to on-premises, private cloud…
StorageReview.comMicrosoft Maia 300 Puts 288GB of HBM4 at 18TB/s on an N2P Chiplet and 96 Accelerators in a 167kW Rack
Microsoft unveiled Azure Maia 300 today at the OCP Global Summit, the third generation of its in-house inference accelerator and the first built as a…
StorageReview.comIntel GPU D-Series Packs 480GB LPDDR5X and 1.3 PFLOPS FP8 into a 350W PCIe Card
Intel today gave Crescent Island its product name at the OCP Global Summit. The Intel GPU D-series is built on the Xe3P architecture and pairs up to 480GB of…
StorageReview.comMicas Networks Puts Broadcom Tomahawk 6 in Three 102.4T Switches, Including a 1RU Davisson CPO Box
Micas Networks announced three 102.4Tb/s Ethernet switches today, all built on Broadcom Tomahawk 6 and all running SONiC: a 4RU air-cooled switch with 128…
StorageReview.comAirrived Agentic OS Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI Security, With Air-Gapped Deployment
Airrived has been named a Cool Vendor in Gartner’s Coolest Vendor Innovations in Agentic AI Security report, published October 2. The Dublin, California…
StorageReview.comPodcast #154: Oregon State’s Chris Sullivan on 122TB SSDs at Sea, Spotted Owls, and AI as a Data Problem
Brian sat down with Chris Sullivan, Director of Research and Academic Computing in Oregon State University’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA and Cisco USFP Optics Target 400Gb/s per Lane, With MGX 1.2 and DSX OS Updates at OCP 2026
NVIDIA and Cisco announced plans today for Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), an optical module format built for 400Gb/s-per-lane Ethernet in AI…