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Lenovo expands enterprise AI server options

The Lenovo Group has introduced an array of data center systems, software, and services optimized for artificial intelligence workloads as a part of its Hybrid AI Advantage product line. At the heart of the announcements is a compute appliance called the ThinkSystem SR680a V4. Lenovo says it features nearly two dozen processors in an air-cooled chassis and can run inference workloads up to 11…

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DigitalOcean teams with AMD for low-cost GPU access

Cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean Holdings has announced a collaboration with AMD to provide DigitalOcean customers with low-cost access to AMD Instinct GPUs starting later this year. DigitalOcean already offers access to the Instinct GPUs but in bare metal instances. It will now offer what it calls GPU Droplets, which are built on virtualized hardware.  DigitalOcean offers a Kubernetes…

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Neoclouds roll in, challenge hyperscalers for AI workloads

Neocloud is not a term from the Matrix movies. It’s not a product. It’s not a technology. It’s not a service. The neoclouds are vendors that offer GPU processing-as-a-service (GPUaaS). Some are startups. Some began aggregating GPUs for crypto-mining and transitioned to GPUaaS. There are some whose primary business is building and operating data centers. They are all hoping to capitalize on the…

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Google unveils Gemini CLI for developers

Google has introduced Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that brings Gemini AI capabilities right to a developer’s terminal. Unveiled June 25, Gemini CLI is a command-line AI workflow tool that connects to a developer’s tools, understands the developer’s code, and accelerates the developer’s workflow. Gemini CLI gives developers a direct path from their prompt to Google’s Gemini AI model, the…

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Software development meets the McNamara Fallacy

The McNamara Fallacy is the idea that it is an error to make decisions purely on measurements or quantitative data. Robert McNamara was the US Secretary of Defense during most of the 1960s, during the first half of the Vietnam War. He came to the position after a successful career in industry—most notably as the first president of the Ford Motor Company who was not from the Ford family—after his…

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Pyrefly and Ty: Two new Rust-powered Python type-checking tools compared

What is most striking about Python’s latest wave of third-party tooling is that they aren’t written in Python. Instead, many of the newer tools for project management, code formatting, and now type checking, are written in Rust. This isn’t a swipe at Python; every language has its place. But modern language tooling demands a real-time feedback loop that Python can’t always deliver at the speed…

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AI benchmarking tools evaluate real world performance

A new AI benchmark for enterprise applications is now available following the launch of xbench, a testing initiative developed in-house by Chinese venture capital firm HongShan Capital Group (HSG). According to an analysis of the benchmark posted Tuesday by MIT Technology Review, xbench “evaluates models not only on the ability to pass arbitrary tests, like most other benchmarks, but also on the…

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Kotlin 2.2.0 arrives with context parameters, unified management of compiler warnings

JetBrains has released Kotlin 2.2.0, the latest version of the company’s general purpose, statically typed language perhaps best known as a rival to Java for JVM and Android development. The update previews context parameters, stabilizes guard conditions, and offers unified management of compiler warnings. Kotlin 2.2.0 was released June 23. Installation instructions can be found at…

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StorONE launches turnkey enterprise AI storage package

Enterprise storage vendor StorONE has partnered with Phison Electronics, a developer of NAND flash technologies, to create ONEai, a turnkey, automated AI package for enterprise data storage that accelerates AI deployment and delivers domain-specific responses for end users. ONEai uses Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ AI capabilities in the StorONE enterprise storage systems. aiDAPTIV+ is a hybrid…

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Cisco backs quantum networking startup Qunnect

Cisco is part of a $10 million extended financing round for quantum computing startup Qunnect. Cisco Investments joins round leader Airbus Ventures and venture capital fund Quantonation in backing Qunnect, a network hardware company that has designs on building quantum communication systems using existing telecom fiber. The company is working with industry partners to develop turnkey variants of…

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HPE announces GreenLake Intelligence, goes all-in with agentic AI

HPE unveiling its latest vision for hybrid IT in the form of GreenLake Intelligence, an agentic AI framework for hybrid operations, at its annual Discover conference on Tuesday. Accessed through GreenLake Copilot, which will be available in beta in the third quarter of 2025, GreenLake Intelligence will provide what the company calls a “unified hybrid cloud operating model powered by agentic…

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VMware licenses too expensive? Then you’re doing something wrong, Broadcom exec suggests

Broadcom customers frustrated by the shift to pricey software bundles like VMware Cloud Foundation should reconsider their value, said EMEA CTO Joe Baguley, who argues that broader use of included components reveals the true benefits. He explained to The Register that as customers actually used more of the included components, they would realize the value of these bundle. “A lot of these cost…

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CPU interconnect technology CXL gains acceptance

The market for Compute Express Link (CXL) products will enjoy rapid growth to nearly $3.4 billion by 2028 as servers come to market with the technology. That’s the conclusion of a new report from semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis, which finds that CXL technology will gain popularity as computing systems are configured to take advantage of its many features and customers…

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MEF goes beyond metro Ethernet, rebrands as Mplify with expanded scope on NaaS and AI

Twenty-five years ago, Ethernet was still a technology used mostly inside of enterprises as well as data centers, but it wasn’t quite where it needed to be for carrier and metro deployments. Among the many reasons why and how Ethernet evolved to become carrier grade for metro deployments was the multi-vendor standards, specifications and implementation efforts from the Metro Ethernet Forum, which…

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o3-pro may be OpenAI’s most advanced commercial offering, but GPT-4o bests it

Unlike general-purpose large language models (LLMs), more specialized reasoning models break complex problems into steps that they ‘reason’ about, and show their work in a chain of thought (CoT) process. This is meant to improve their decision-making and accuracy and enhance trust and explainability. But can it also lead to a sort of reasoning overkill? Researchers at AI red teaming company…

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Public cloud becomes a commodity

Since the dawn of the public cloud era, the narrative has focused on disruption and innovation. The Big Three providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) have commanded center stage by captivating customers and analysts alike with their relentless rollout of new features and services. The implication has always been clear: Stick with the largest, most innovative providers…

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Virtual private cloud defined: Inside the cloud within the cloud

Virtual private clouds (VPC) are secure computing clouds, generally hosted and isolated by a large public cloud provider. They can be accessed via VPNs, physical direct connections, public IPs that are often secured with firewalls, service endpoints, cloud consoles, or transit gateways. Think of VPC as analogous to renting a private storage space at a large, public, secure storage facility. While…