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StorageReview.comAMD Helion Agentic AI Rack Packs Up to 32,768 EPYC Cores in an Open OCP Blueprint
AMD introduced Helion today, an open rack reference design for agentic AI that builds on its Helios rack-scale platform. Helion comes in two versions: a…
StorageReview.comKIOXIA CM9-DLC Brings Direct Liquid Cooling to Dual-Port E3.S SSDs up to 30.72TB
KIOXIA America announced the CM9-DLC today, a set of direct liquid cooling (DLC) models in its CM9 Series of PCIe 5.0 enterprise SSDs. The E3.S drives mount…
StorageReview.comIBM Moves to DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Stage C, Putting Its Starling Hardware Under Test
IBM has announced that DARPA has selected it for Stage C, the third phase of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI). DARPA launched QBI in 2024 to determine…
StorageReview.comSeagate and Toshiba Reportedly Pursue TDK HDD Head Business as Nearline Demand Accelerates
Seagate and Toshiba have each held preliminary talks to acquire TDK’s hard disk drive recording head business in a potential multibillion-dollar deal…
StorageReview.comCTERA Forward Deployed Engineering Embeds Engineers With Customers to Put File-Data AI Into Production
CTERA announced CTERA Forward Deployed Engineering on October 6, a service that places CTERA engineers inside customer environments to put specific AI use…
StorageReview.comBest Mini PCs in 2026: Lab-Tested Leaderboard
Published October 8, 2026. Ranked on our current cross-platform client suite; systems tested on earlier suite versions are noted in Also Tested. Every mini PC…
StorageReview.comASUS ExpertCenter PN55 Review: Ryzen AI 7 450, Dual 2.5GbE, and 64GB of DDR5 in 0.57 Liters
The ASUS ExpertCenter PN55 is the AMD side of ASUS’s commercial mini PC line, a 130 x 130 x 34mm box that puts a Ryzen AI 400 Series processor, two DDR5…
StorageReview.comScality AI Inference Factory Serves KV Cache From Object Storage Over RDMA, 14x Faster Than Recompute
Scality today launched Scality AI Inference Factory, an open-code software stack for running open-weight models on infrastructure the customer owns. Scality…
StorageReview.comKIOXIA LD4 Brings QLC to E1.L for 1U Servers, Sampling at 30.72TB With a Path to 122.88TB
KIOXIA America announced the LD4 Series today, its first E1.L SSD built with BiCS FLASH generation 8 QLC flash. The drive targets read-intensive storage in…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA RTX Spark Pre-Orders Open: N1X Runs 45 to 80W in Laptops and 140W in Desktops as MXC Goes GA
NVIDIA and Microsoft opened pre-orders for RTX Spark Windows laptops today, with availability set for October 16, compact desktops to follow in November, and a…
StorageReview.comASUS NUC 16 Pro Review: A 65W Core Ultra X7 358H, Dual M.2, and Dual 2.5GbE in 0.71 Liters
The ASUS NUC 16 Pro moves the NUC Pro line from a 4×4-inch footprint to 5×4 inches, and ASUS spends the extra inch on a second M.2 slot, a second…
StorageReview.comDell XPS 16 Creator Edition Puts RTX Spark N1X and 128GB of Unified Memory in a 17.8mm Laptop at $3,799.99, With a Windows GB300 Workstation to Follow
Dell has announced the first XPS laptop built on NVIDIA’s RTX Spark superchip, the XPS 16 Creator Edition, alongside a compact Dell Creator Edition…
StorageReview.comNasuni AI Activate Connects LLMs to Live File Data Over MCP, and Resilio 6.0 Pushes Edge File Transport to 200 Gbps
Nasuni has announced that AI Activate and Resilio 6.0 are generally available on the Nasuni File Data Platform, with Enterprise Search following later this…
StorageReview.comXinnor xiRAID Classic 4.4.1 Adds NVMe Discard Support and Multipath RAID Members
Xinnor released xiRAID Classic 4.4.1 on October 7 with discard support, so the file system’s notice that a block is free now passes through the RAID…
StorageReview.comAMD ROCm 10.1 Targets Storage Bottlenecks with hipFILE Fast-Path, NUMA Memory Allocation, and LLVM 24
AMD ROCm 10.1, released October 5, puts its weight on the path between storage and the GPU. Checkpoint files, key-value caches, and model weights now routinely…
StorageReview.comHPE ProLiant Gen13 Launches With the First Four AMD EPYC Venice Servers: Eight-GPU DL585a, 256-Core DL525, and OCP XD Nodes
HPE has announced the first four ProLiant Gen13 servers, and all of them run on 6th Gen AMD EPYC, the SP7-socket Venice parts AMD listed last month. The lineup…
StorageReview.comTrueNAS 27 RC.1 Debuts with Native S3, TrueSearch, and OpenZFS 2.4
TrueNAS has renamed its upcoming release from TrueNAS 26 to TrueNAS 27, starting with the RC.1 released today. The change does not affect the release schedule…
StorageReview.comDell AI Data Platform Adds Semantic Layer, cuDF GPU Acceleration, and 500-Tenant PowerScale Clusters
Dell Technologies has expanded the Dell AI Data Platform with context orchestration layers, GPU-accelerated processing engines, and high-density multitenancy…
StorageReview.comDGX Station GB300 Cluster: Two Towers, Two 400G DACs, and Frontier Models Without the Offload Penalty
We’ve taken a look at a couple of GB300 DGX Stations now, and recently had two of them physically in our lab at the same time: the ASUS ExpertCenter Pro…
StorageReview.comVultr Commits $1.2B to the AMD Helios AI Rack by HPE, HPE’s First Order for the 72-GPU MI455X System
HPE has booked its first order for the AMD Helios AI Rack by HPE, a $1.2 billion commitment from Vultr to deploy the 72-GPU racks across Vultr’s cloud…
StorageReview.comLenovo Yoga Mini Review: Core Ultra X7 358H and Arc B390 in a 0.65-Liter Puck
The Lenovo Yoga Mini is a 130mm aluminum puck, 48.6mm tall and about 600 grams, that fits Intel’s 16-core Core Ultra X7 358H, 32GB of LPDDR5X-8533, and…
StorageReview.comEUC World Amplify 2026 Day Two: Skipping Forklift Migrations, DEX Without Alert Fatigue, Entra Travel Policies, and Running LLMs on Private Infrastructure
EUC World Amplify 2026 continued Wednesday, September 30, at Milwaukee’s Baird Center, with a second day of technical sessions, architecture panels…
StorageReview.comSchneider Electric Software-Defined Medium Voltage Switchgear Debuts at YOTTA 2026 in an Equinix Pilot, With 38 kV SF6-Free GIS and a Generator-to-Chip Delivery Model
Schneider Electric used YOTTA 2026 in Las Vegas to introduce what it calls the world’s first fully software-defined medium-voltage switchgear, already…
StorageReview.comAMD Samples Space-Grade Versal AI Core XQRVC1902 in a Lidless Package Built for 15-Year Missions, Class Y Flight Units Due 2H 2027
AMD has started sampling the Versal AI Core XQRVC1902 adaptive SoC with early access customers in an enhanced space-grade package built for missions lasting up…
StorageReview.comCoreWeave Puts NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Into Production: Cognition Reports 4.8x Over GB200, Vera CPU Racks and Forge Follow
CoreWeave used its Fully Connected 2026 conference in San Francisco to put NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 into production, with Cognition as the first customer…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Lands October 23 at $4,999, and Two Units Cluster to 128GB Over ConnectX-7
NVIDIA has added a 64GB unified-memory configuration of the DGX Spark, starting at $4,999 and sold exclusively through Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, and MSI…
StorageReview.comEUC World Amplify 2026 Day One: Manchester on Cloud Desktops as an Operating Model, Nerdio Manager 8.2, Kasm on Nutanix, and Local Inference
EUC World Amplify 2026 brought the end-user computing community together September 29 through October 1 at the Baird Center in Milwaukee. This is our day-one…
StorageReview.comNerdio CPTO Scott Manchester on the Legacy VDI Migration Deadlock and Treating AI Agents as Entra Identities
Between sessions at EUC World Amplify in Milwaukee, we sat down for an extended conversation with an industry veteran whose fingerprints are all over the…
StorageReview.comNetApp Novus Splits pNFS Metadata From AFF A90 Data Nodes for a 100 TB/s AI Factory Target, Orderable Now
NetApp used its INSIGHT 2026 conference in Las Vegas to announce NetApp Novus, a disaggregated storage architecture for AI factories that separates metadata…
StorageReview.comDell Pro Rugged 13 Extreme and Pro Rugged 14 Move to Core Ultra Series 3, With 1,400 Nits and an RTX Pro 500 Blackwell Option
Dell Technologies has updated its rugged laptop lineup with new versions of the Dell Pro Rugged 13 Extreme and Pro Rugged 14, bringing Intel Core Ultra Series…
StorageReview.comAMD Ross Brings an Agentic AI Assistant to Embedded Design, Starting With Vivado and Vitis HLS, 20-Plus Open Agent Skills, and Monthly Releases
AMD introduced AMD Ross, an agentic AI assistant built to run alongside the tools embedded developers already use, from system architecture and schematic…
StorageReview.comZella Stack Micro Data Center Ships by Courier, Stacks From 24RU to 48RU, and Cools Up to 124kW
Zella DC used Yotta 2026 in Las Vegas to introduce Zella Stack, an indoor micro data center that ships by standard courier and is assembled on site from…
StorageReview.comEverpure Adds PureKVA to FlashBlade, Claims Up to 20x Faster Time to First Token, and Makes DeepReduce Always-On
Everpure announced a set of platform capabilities aimed at getting enterprise AI out of pilots and into production, all of them due in October. The headline is…
StorageReview.comAMD to Acquire World Labs for $8.2B in Stock, With Fei-Fei Li Joining as Chief Scientist
AMD has signed a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco spatial-intelligence company co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock…
StorageReview.comDell PowerStoreOS 5.0 Deep Dive: The Software Half of the Elite Reset
When we went deep on Dell PowerStore Gen 3 earlier this year, the story was hardware, and there was plenty of it. Dell rebuilt the platform from the chassis…
StorageReview.comDGX Spark Shared Storage: Bringing Deskside AI Back Under Data Center Governance
Deskside AI systems built on NVIDIA’s GB10 have one job, and they do it well: put 128GB of unified memory and a petaflop of compute on a desk close…
StorageReview.comPodcast #153: ServerPartDeals CEO Max Manekia on Refurbished Drives as Supply Chain Strategy
Brian recently sat down with Max Manekia, CEO of ServerPartDeals, at the company’s facility in Sanford, Florida, on the same trip that produced our…
StorageReview.comSimplyblock OpenShift Virtualization Storage Adds Built-In Zero-RPO Metro Replication, One-Minute Async DR, and S3 Backup
Simplyblock is building business continuity and storage-level disaster recovery into its software-defined storage platform for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization…
StorageReview.comGoogle Cloud Storage Intelligence Advisor Is GA, With 24-Hour Anomaly Findings and Batch Jobs Across 1,000 Buckets
Google Cloud has made its Storage Intelligence advisor generally available and expanded batch operations for Google Cloud Storage. The advisor monitors storage…
StorageReview.comIBM Digital Asset Haven Goes On-Premises on IBM Z and LinuxONE in Beta, With an ISO 20022 Adapter Into Swift’s Shared Ledger
IBM has added two beta capabilities to IBM Digital Asset Haven, its digital asset platform for banks, governments, and other regulated organizations: an…
StorageReview.comSynopsys Certifies A14 EDA Flows With TSMC and Tapes Out 64G UCIe on 2nm and 3nm, With PCIe 7.0 and HBM4 IP on N2P
Synopsys has certified its digital and analog EDA flows on TSMC’s A14 process and completed 64G UCIe IP tape-outs on TSMC’s 2nm and 3nm nodes, the…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: OpenShell on the CPU, Sentry on BlueField-4, and 100-Plus Partners From Anthropic to SpaceXAI
NVIDIA has launched the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software platform and reference system design that puts guardrails around autonomous AI…
StorageReview.comAMD Posts the Full EPYC 9006 SKU List: 31 Venice Parts From $700 to $14,904 Across SP7 and SP8
AMD has posted the full SKU list for its 6th Gen EPYC 9006 series, the Zen 6 parts it launched as Venice at Advancing AI 2026 in July, and all of the…
StorageReview.comNetApp to Acquire PEAK:AIO, Bringing Its Scale-Out pNFS Metadata Work to ONTAP
NetApp has agreed to acquire PEAK:AIO, the Manchester, UK software company whose metadata and parallel NFS work NetApp says will accelerate its AI…
StorageReview.comSupermicro NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Racks Now Shipping With 1.8MW In-Row CDUs and a 1,152-GPU Scalable Unit
Supermicro is now shipping NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 racks integrated with its Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) and its DLC-2 direct liquid cooling…
StorageReview.comWhiteFiber Continuum Goes Commercial, Scaling Its 83 km Two-Site GPU Supercluster Design to 136 Tbps
WhiteFiber has made WhiteFiber Continuum commercially available, turning the two-site GPU supercluster it first detailed as Project Redwood in July into a…
StorageReview.comTerraMaster 725 Series Brings Xeon D and 50Gbps of Networking to 8- to 16-Bay Rackmount NAS
TerraMaster has launched the 725 Series, four Intel Xeon D rackmount NAS systems aimed at enterprise file storage, backup, virtualization, media production…
StorageReview.comSolidigm D5-P5430 30.72TB E3.S Review: Gen4 QLC for Mixed Workloads
The Solidigm D5-P5430 is the mainstream tier of Solidigm’s QLC data center line. It’s the drive that sits below the capacity-maximizing D5-P5336…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Edge Review: 2.7x the L4 Inside an HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition is the card NVIDIA built primarily to replace the L4 in servers that live outside the data center…
StorageReview.comQNAP TS-432XeU Brings 10GbE to a 12-Inch-Deep 1U NAS
QNAP has introduced the TS-432XeU, a 4-bay short-depth rackmount NAS that combines 10GbE SFP+ and dual 2.5GbE networking in a 1U chassis measuring just over…
StorageReview.comDatadobi Data Access Governance Hits GA in StorageMAP, Mapping Who Can Access Unstructured Data
Datadobi has made Data Access Governance (DAG) generally available in StorageMAP, giving organizations visibility into who has access to their unstructured…
StorageReview.comASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 Review: The GB300 DGX Station Gets Handles, Titanium Power, and Cooled Optics
The ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 is the second GB300 DGX Station we’ve tested and the first we’ve had hands-on in the lab; our MSI XpertStation…
StorageReview.comDell AI Factory Passes 6,500 Deployments as Omdia Finds 79% of Enterprises Hit an AI Incident in 12 Months
Dell says it has delivered more than 6,500 AI Factories to customers across nearly every industry, and it has paired that milestone with commissioned research…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA DSX Ready Qualifies Tesla, LG, and Hitachi Batteries and Vertiv, LiquidStack, and LG CDUs for AI Factories
NVIDIA has introduced NVIDIA DSX Ready, a qualification program for partner products that meet the applicable requirements of its NVIDIA DSX AI factory…
StorageReview.comGiga Computing Opens GAIFA, a 700 kW Liquid-Cooled AI Factory Test Bed With Two GB300 NVL72 Racks
Giga Computing has opened GAIFA (GIGABYTE AI Factory Accelerator), its first proprietary AI computing center, in New Taipei City, Taiwan: a six-rack…
StorageReview.comVAST DataEnclave Runs AI Models on Regulated Data Inside NVIDIA Confidential Computing, Ships Q1 2027
VAST Data has previewed VAST DataEnclave, a confidential AI capability of the VAST DataEngine built on NVIDIA Confidential Computing, which lets proprietary…
StorageReview.comABB Infinitus Brings a Source-to-Rack 800 VDC Portfolio to AI Data Centers, Targeting 1 MW Racks and 5% Efficiency Gains
ABB has introduced Infinitus, a portfolio of direct current power technologies for AI data centers built around 800 VDC distribution and rack power demands the…
StorageReview.comFCIA’s FC-SP-3: A Standard Ready for the Quantum-Computing World
In enterprise IT, most security upgrades typically occur in response to breaches or other significant incidents. The recently developed INCITS FC-SP-3…
StorageReview.comIDC External Storage Tracker: $10.3 Billion in Q2 2026 as Server Market Tops $166 Billion on AI Demand
IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker shows the external OEM enterprise storage systems (ESS) market reached $10.3 billion in…
StorageReview.comASUS Ascent QN10 Review: 80 TOPS and 18 Oryon Cores in a 0.7-Liter Mini PC
Mini PCs have become one of the more important segments of the client computing market. They anchor fleets of clutter-free office desks, drive digital signage…