Datadog Launches Tool to Cut Unnecessary Cloud Object Storage
📅 - Cloud storage costs have risen quickly due to the growing use of cloud object storage from data-intensive and AI applications, such as big training datasets, model artifacts, and inference logs. For operations and cloud efficiency teams, effectively managing these expenses has become a major challenge. Many of these teams find it difficult to pinpoint the workloads or stakeholders responsible for driving costs in big, shared buckets. In order to properly implement lifecycle or tiering policies, these teams frequently lack the detailed understanding across metadata and access patterns.
Finding particular savings opportunities - like moving cold data from pricey storage classes, eliminating [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - ABB, Applied Digital Expand Power Systems for AI Factories - ABB has deepened its collaboration with Applied Digital, a U.S.-based developer of high-performance data centers, to supply the power infrastructure for the company's second large-scale AI Factory campus in North Dakota. The expanded partnership underscores the rapidly accelerating demand for electrical systems capable of supporting the extreme power densities associated with artificial intelligence (AI) and GPU-intensive workloads.
The new order - booked in Q4 2025 - covers medium-voltage electrical architecture for Applied Digital's Polaris Forge 2 development near Harwood, North Dakota. The 300-megawatt campus is being built in phases across two 150-MW buildings, scheduled to enter [...]
📅 - Eviden Debuts BullSequana XH3500 for Next-Gen AI and HPC - Eviden, an Atos Group product brand and long-standing player in the high-performance computing (HPC) market, has introduced the BullSequana XH3500, a next-generation supercomputer engineered to meet the escalating demands of converged AI and HPC workloads.
Positioned as the successor to the BullSequana XH3000, the new platform is designed to scale beyond exascale, offering higher density, efficiency, and flexibility to support scientific research, industrial R&D, and large-scale AI model training.
The launch comes at a pivotal moment for the industry. As organizations race to build AI factories and HPC systems capable of supporting large language models, physics simulations, climate [...]
📅 - IQM Unveils Halocene Quantum System for Next-Gen Error Correction - IQM Quantum Computers has introduced IQM Halocene, a fully modular, on-premises quantum computing product line engineered specifically for quantum error correction (QEC) research - a foundational requirement for building fault-tolerant quantum computers.
The launch represents a strategic pivot for the Finnish-German company as it moves from Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) machines toward systems capable of supporting large-scale, error-mitigated and ultimately error-corrected quantum workloads.
The first system in the Halocene lineup is a 150-qubit superconducting quantum computer, expected to be commercially available by the end of 2026. It features advanced error-correction [...]
📅 - Voyager, Infleqtion Partner to Advance Quantum Tech in Space - Voyager Technologies and Infleqtion have formed a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the development of neutral atom-based quantum systems in space, signaling a growing alignment between the aerospace and quantum computing sectors.
The collaboration comes as Infleqtion prepares to enter the public markets through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp X, positioning the company to scale its quantum offerings for commercial and government customers.
The partnership centers on demonstrating advanced quantum capabilities in low-Earth orbit, beginning with the deployment of Infleqtion's Tiqker Quantum atomic clock on the International Space Station. The system is designed to serve as [...]
📅 - CloudZero Unveils Kubernetes Optimization for Unified Visibility and Efficiency - Modern engineering teams require Kubernetes infrastructure, but its prices are infamously opaque. Platform and FinOps teams frequently have trouble understanding how Kubernetes clusters and resources are used, where waste lurks, or how those expenses relate to the goods and clients that propel company expansion. In one of the cloud spend sectors with the quickest rate of growth, the outcome is inefficiency, lost optimization possibilities, and margin risk.
The new features offered by CloudZero enable users to fully see cluster-level use, efficiency, and business effect, bringing Kubernetes expenses out of the shadows.
Usage metrics in CloudZero Explorer deliver granular cost and [...]
📅 - Zayo Completes 622-Mile AI-Optimized Fiber Route Across Western U.S. - Zayo has completed its Umatilla-Prineville-Reno long-haul fiber route, a 622-mile build that introduces one of the western United States' newest AI-optimized network backbones. The corridor establishes a fresh inland path linking some of the region's fastest-growing cloud and AI hubs, reflecting how the physical underlay of fiber infrastructure is becoming increasingly central to the scale and performance of next-generation compute.
The fully owned and operated route is designed to support rapidly expanding data center clusters in Oregon, California and Nevada while reducing reliance on the traditional I-5 corridor. By offering a geographically diverse alternative with carrier-grade [...]
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