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Sep, 2026 : AI Data Growth Revives Tape in Modern Data Center Storage
📅 - AI data growth is reviving tape inside modern data center architecture, with Linear Tape-Open capacity shipments rising 57% year over year in the first quarter of 2026. Figures released by the LTO Program show the rebound was driven by continued LTO-9 demand and early LTO-10 adoption, as operators reassess how much rarely accessed data should remain on powered disk and flash infrastructure.
That is a less nostalgic story than it sounds. Tape never disappeared from large archives, backup estates, media workflows, and research environments. What is changing is the volume of data being generated around artificial intelligence and the growing cost of treating all of it as if it deserves [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - IBM Nighthawk r2 Raises Quantum Throughput Without More Qubits - IBM has released Quantum Nighthawk r2, a 120-qubit processor that raises circuit throughput to more than 100,000 circuits per second while preserving Quantum Heron-class gate fidelity. The machine adds reset hardware, cuts initialization errors sharply, and targets deeper workloads, giving enterprises and researchers more quantum compute without increasing programmable qubit count or changing the architecture.
The number to watch is not 120. IBM has held the programmable qubit count steady from the first Nighthawk generation and instead attacked a less glamorous bottleneck – the dead time between repeated circuit executions. Earlier systems could spend hundreds of microseconds waiting for [...]
📅 - Gimlet Labs Raises $300M at $3B Valuation for AI Inference Cloud - Gimlet Labs has raised $300 million in Series B funding at a $3 billion valuation, financing an expansion of its multi-silicon AI inference cloud as enterprises confront inference costs and constrained accelerator supply. The company says its software can split inference workloads across different processors, turning hardware heterogeneity into an orchestration problem rather than a procurement headache.
The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Sapphire Ventures, M12, Arm, Menlo Ventures and Factory also participating. Total funding now stands at $392 million. Gimlet Labs says it has secured billions of dollars in contracted revenue for Gimlet Cloud and plans to use the new [...]
📅 - Cloudflare Adds AI-Powered Edge Vulnerability Defense With OpenAI - Cloudflare is bringing OpenAI Daybreak models into vulnerability management, combining code analysis with traffic and security telemetry to identify which software flaws are actually exposed and propose edge defenses before developers ship fixes. The early access service targets a familiar enterprise problem – vulnerability queues are growing faster than security teams can investigate and remediate them manually.
The service, called Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, is being offered through Cloudflare Managed Defense. OpenAI models including GPT-5.6 Cyber examine authorized codebases, while Cloudflare contributes application traffic, Web Application Firewall data and operational [...]
📅 - Digital Realty Expands East Africa Footprint with New Nairobi Data Center - Digital Realty has opened a 6.4 MW data center in Nairobi, expanding its campus as the company folds the iColo brand into Digital Realty across Kenya and Mozambique. The new NBO2 facility adds capacity, interconnection density and satellite connectivity in a market where cloud demand, data sovereignty requirements and regional digital services are reshaping infrastructure decisions quickly.
NBO2 sits alongside Nairobi One, turning the site into a larger campus rather than another isolated facility. For infrastructure buyers, the more relevant number may not be 6.4 MW. Digital Realty says customers at the Nairobi campus can reach more than 100 networks, two internet exchange points and a [...]
📅 - Sharon AI Standardizes Multi-Site GPU Operations With Rafay Systems - Sharon AI has signed a five-year agreement with Rafay Systems to standardize orchestration across its expanding AI infrastructure, replacing individual cluster operations with a centralized control layer. The platform is intended to manage provisioning, governance, monitoring, multi-tenancy, Kubernetes and virtual machines as Sharon AI prepares an architecture designed to orchestrate up to 150,000 GPUs globally over time.
The interesting part is not the contract itself. It is what Sharon AI is trying to stop doing: treating every GPU cluster as a separate operational environment. As neocloud operators add sites, tenants and different workload types, raw accelerator capacity becomes only [...]
📅 - Dedicated Server CPU Choice: AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon or AMD Ryzen? - Choosing between AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon and, for some dedicated server workloads, AMD Ryzen is less about finding the fastest processor than matching each platform to workload, memory, I/O and scalability requirements. EPYC emphasizes core density, memory bandwidth and PCIe expansion, Xeon remains attractive for workloads prioritizing per-core speed and latency, while Ryzen can offer better economics for lightly threaded applications needing high clock speeds without enterprise-scale server features.
For hosting providers and enterprise buyers, that distinction can change server count, licensing exposure, rack power, storage design and deployment economics. A CPU with more cores may [...]
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