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Dataknox Extends AI Hardware Life as Chip Supply Stays Tight
📅 - Dataknox Solutions is adding third party maintenance for AI servers and accelerators nearing OEM support cutoffs, aiming at companies stuck between scarce new chips and useful installed gear. The offer covers hardware tied to NVIDIA, Intel and AMD ecosystems, and arrives as buyers question whether every AI refresh cycle needs another expensive procurement scramble this year alone.
Behind the move is a familiar enterprise problem: the support window closes before the asset stops being useful. Dataknox, a managed services provider focused on IT infrastructure, says hardware acquired during recent AI buildouts often came with inflated pricing and long waits. Much of it may still be adequate [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - DigiCert Unveils Tool for Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness - DigiCert is previewing Quantum Central, a new DigiCert ONE service aimed at helping enterprises locate cryptographic assets, assess systems exposed to future quantum attacks, and organize migration work toward post-quantum cryptography, as security teams confront a sprawling inventory problem before algorithms, certificates, applications, and supplier dependencies can be changed without breaking production systems under real enterprise pressure.
The free preview sits inside DigiCert's broader trust platform. On paper, it handles discovery, prioritization, change-request creation, progress tracking, Jira-linked planning, readiness measurement, and education. That combination says plenty [...]
📅 - Meta Weighs Selling AI Compute as Cloud Ambitions Grow - Meta is weighing a move into cloud infrastructure by selling excess AI compute or model access to outside customers, according to Bloomberg, a shift that would put Mark Zuckerberg's company closer to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and CoreWeave. The question is whether Meta wants cloud margins, cloud complexity, or simply a way to monetize idle AI capacity.
Meta has spent heavily on AI infrastructure. That is not new. What is different is the possibility that some of that capacity could become a commercial product rather than only an internal engine for advertising, recommendations, consumer AI features, and Llama development.
The company is reportedly considering two routes. One is basic [...]
📅 - Samsung, KDDI Report 31% 5G Speed Gain in AI Network Trial - Samsung says an AI optimization trial on KDDI's live 5G standalone network in Japan lifted average downlink throughput by 31% during peak hours, with gains reaching 52% in dense urban areas. The test covered hundreds of cells around Tokyo, using 100 MHz of 3.7 GHz TDD spectrum across varied deployment conditions and traffic profiles.
For operators, the interesting part is not the percentage gain on its own. Field trials can be shaped by test areas, baselines, device mix, time windows, and parameter choices. The sharper issue is whether AI can take over a job mobile networks still treat as slow, local, and stubbornly manual: tuning individual cells without breaking something [...]
📅 - Wesco Acquires Newark as Data Center Cooling Becomes Critical - Wesco has closed its acquisition of Newark Engineering Group, based in Singapore, adding data center cooling design, installation and lifecycle services as thermal management becomes a harder constraint on AI infrastructure growth. The deal gives Wesco deeper exposure to Southeast Asia's data center buildout and technical role beyond distribution, logistics and supply chain support across the region.
For enterprise buyers, this is not just another bolt on services transaction. Cooling has moved from facilities plumbing to capacity planning. More racks, hotter chips, less patience from customers who want AI capacity yesterday. Operators can buy servers and networking gear, but if heat [...]
📅 - Bit Origin Buys $11M B300 Servers for Malaysia AI Deployment - Bit Origin, an emerging growth company focused on AI computing infrastructure, digital asset innovation and blockchain-based strategies, is buying roughly $11 million of NVIDIA Blackwell B300 AI servers in a transaction tied to an already contracted deployment in Malaysia, giving the former digital asset infrastructure player a faster route into GPU rental revenue, provided the hardware arrives, customers stay attached, and operating costs do not eat the headline economics first next year.
For enterprise buyers and infrastructure operators, the interesting part is not that another company has found religion in AI compute. Plenty have. It is that Bit Origin says the package already comes [...]
📅 - Crusoe Eyes $3B Round at Possible $30B Valuation - Crusoe Energy Systems is in talks to raise $3 billion at a valuation that could reach $30 billion, a sharp rerating for a data center operator riding the shortage of AI compute, power access and hyperscale contracts - even as parts of its project pipeline show how fragile the economics can already get under investor scrutiny today.
The reported round, still not closed, would mark one of the larger private financings around AI infrastructure this year. It would also put a fairly young company, founded in 2018, in a different conversation from the commodity colocation market. Crusoe is not selling another chatbot interface. It is selling the thing everyone claims to need before the software [...]