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Qualcomm’s AI Data Center Bet: Inside The Dragonfly Strategy

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By Steve McDowell
| Yahoo Finance Verified
Cristiano Amon, chief executive officer of Qualcomm Inc.© 2026 Bloomberg Finance LP The economics of artificial intelligence are shifting, placing the data center under strain. Agentic AI, in which software agents chain together dozens of model calls to complete a single task, has turned inference from a modest tax into the dominant workload.
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Qualcomm’s AI Data Center Bet: Inside The Dragonfly Strategy Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Cristiano Amon, chief executive officer of Qualcomm Inc. © 2026 Bloomberg Finance LP The economics of artificial intelligence are shifting, placing the data center under strain. Agentic AI, in which software agents chain together dozens of model calls to complete a single task, has turned inference from a modest tax into the dominant workload.
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Oracle Targets AI Security With Database-First Protection Strategy Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
AI has compressed the vulnerability lifecycle from discovery to exploitation, enabling attackers to identify weaknesses, generate exploit code, and launch campaigns at machine speed. According to the 2026 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report, the average attack breakout time is now just 29 minutes, a 65% increase in speed since 2024. AI-enabled adversaries have increased their activity by more than 89%.
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Forbes JAPAN 公式サイト（フォーブス ジャパン）

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Japan Verified
Atlassian（アトラシアン）は、成果の販売を始める前に、約2年にわたって自社内でエンタープライズAI変革を進めていた。同社はAI導入を全社的な取り組みとして位置づけ、営業、人事、財務にまたがってエージェントを構築・展開し、成果を厳格に追跡した。こうして、運用の実体験に根差したプレイブックが形になった。 そのプレイブックは、充実した一連の製品発表とともに、アナハイムで開催されたアトラシアンの「Team '26」カンファレンスで披露された。新製品やアップデートされた製品群により、アトラシアンの学びがエンタープライズ顧客にも活用できるようになった。 タイミングは絶好だ。エンタープライズのリーダーはAIに大きな投資をしている一方で、何を得ているのかを説明するのに苦労している。個人のレベルでは生産性の物語は説得力があり、アナリストやエンジニア、営業担当者がより速く働き、文書の要約や初稿の作成を進めている。 しかし、経営層のレベルで見る景色は大きく異なる。アトラシアンが13人の行動科学組織「Teamwork...
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IBM's Agentic Operating Model Puts Sovereignty At The Center Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
IBM Event Sportsfile via Getty Images IBM unveiled a comprehensive framework at its recent Think event in Boston for what it calls the agentic enterprise, built on four integrated pillars and anchored by operational sovereignty, a capability that sets its approach apart from hyperscaler competitors.
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Atlassian’s Customer Zero Strategy: Build Products From The Inside Out Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Digital Transformation getty Atlassian spent nearly two years running its own enterprise AI transformation before it began selling the results. The company treated AI adoption as a company-wide effort, building and deploying agents across sales, HR, and finance, and rigorously tracking outcomes. What emerged is a playbook grounded in operational experience. That playbook, along with a robust set of product announcements, was unveiled at Atlassian’s recent Team ’26 conference in Anaheim.
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Dell Technologies: AI Data Platform and Storage Portfolio for the Agentic Enterprise

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By Steve McDowell
| nand-research.com
At the recent Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, Dell announced a broad expansion of its AI Data Platform and storage portfolio, centered on the general availability of the Lightning File System (formerly Project Lightning), the introduction of Exascale Storage as a unified 4-in-1 rack architecture, the refreshed ObjectScale X7700 appliance, and enhancements to the Dell AI Data Platform’s orchestration, analytics, and search layers. The announcements arrive just as Dell needs them most.
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CrowdStrike’s Next Act: Securing The Era Of Enterprise Agentic AI Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
A decade ago, enterprises hesitated to move critical workloads to the cloud. The technology was capable, but governance wasn’t. Security vendors that positioned themselves as the control layer captured enormous market value, CrowdStrike among them. The company's Falcon platform rode the cloud transition, becoming a dominant force in enterprise security. Now CrowdStrike is making the same bet on AI, and the evidence suggests it has a head start.
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Oracle Brings Mission-Critical Availability To The Agentic AI Era Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Oracle Corp. © 2026 Bloomberg Finance LP Oracle recently announced a set of availability and security enhancements to provide continuous availability and security for Oracle AI Database and applications for the agentic AI era. To maximize availability, Oracle provides two formally defined tiers: Platinum for mainstream mission-critical workloads and Diamond for applications where even a perceptible amount of downtime is unacceptable.
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Dynatrace Moves Upstream: Bindplane Acquisition Targets Data Control Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Observability and Log Management Software Solutions getty Dynatrace, a leader in enterprise IT observability, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Bindplane, a modern telemetry pipeline company whose technology manages, optimizes, and routes observability data before it reaches backend systems. The deal is expected to close later this month. Observability has become the foundation of modern enterprise IT.
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Nvidia Rewrites The AI Storage Rulebook At GTC 2026 Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang AFP via Getty Images Nvidia unveiled two initiatives at its recent GTC 2026 event that disrupt the enterprise storage landscape. The Nvidia Data Platform and STX incorporate the entire storage ecosystem into Nvidia’s framework by standardizing data transfer to GPUs. These efforts further reinforce Nvidia’s leadership in AI infrastructure design and are also changing how storage companies compete in that market.
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Arm Bets Big On AI Data Centers With First-Ever CPU Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Arm Holdings announced its first chip product, the Arm AGI CPU. The new data center processor is designed specifically for AI agent infrastructure. After more than 35 years of operating solely as an intellectual property licensor, Arm is now creating and selling its own processors. It’s a shift that fundamentally changes both Arm’s business model and its relationship with customers, including some of the world’s most influential technology companies.
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Oracle AI Database Agentic AI: New Features Address Enterprise Data Pipeline Problem Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Oracle announced a suite of agentic AI capabilities integrated directly into Oracle AI Database, enabling AI agents to securely access enterprise data where it already exists, rather than requiring organizations to move it elsewhere for processing. Business data is often siloed and scattered across transactional databases, data warehouses, document repositories, and increasingly, data lakes built on open formats like Apache Iceberg.
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From AI-First to AI-Smart: Why 2026 Will Be the Year of Enterprise AI Discipline

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By Steve McDowell
| NUTANIX
Enterprise AI is shifting from an "interesting initiative" to a strategic imperative. Executives are no longer debating whether to invest in AI, they are instead focused on rapid deployment. Proof-of-concept projects and budgets are expanding, yet this speed has often compromised sustainability. This year, enterprises are moving from pursuing the latest models to building reliable, production-ready AI systems. The transformation is not about better algorithms, but about operational maturity.
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Inference Is Coming Home: The Quiet Reversal from Cloud-Only to On-Prem + Edge AI

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By Steve McDowell
| NUTANIX
The technology industry has long assumed that artificial intelligence would reside in the cloud, with large GPU clusters in hyperscale data centers managing both model training and inference deployment. Training might happen in the cloud, and that part of the story remains largely true. But something unexpected is happening with inference. It's moving back on-prem and out to the edge, a quiet reversal that's forcing a fundamental rethink of enterprise AI architecture.
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Qualcomm's Wayve Deal Accelerates Its Automotive Ambitions Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Qualcomm Automotive Efforts dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Qualcomm recently announced a technology partnership with London-based autonomous driving company Wayve to integrate Wayve's AI Driver software with Qualcomm's Snapdragon Ride platform. The collaboration provides a production-ready ADAS/AD system ranging from hands-off driver assistance to eyes-off automated driving, with a pathway toward Level 4 robotaxi applications.
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Forbes JAPAN 公式サイト（フォーブス ジャパン）

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Japan Verified
エヌビディアは、世界有数の光学部品メーカーであるLumentumとCoherentにそれぞれ20億ドルを投じる戦略投資を発表した。同社はまた、光チップレットを開発するスタートアップ、Ayar Labsの5億ドルの資金調達ラウンドにも参加した。これらの投資は、次世代AIインフラ市場を定義するうえで鍵となる競争優位を確保することを狙いとしている。 これらの取引には、数十億ドル規模の購入コミットメントに加え、高度なレーザー部品および光ネットワーキング製品の製造能力への優先アクセスが含まれる。 基本的な物理の問題を解く チップ間でデータを移動させるには膨大な電力が必要である。これはすべてのAIファクトリーにとって根本的な制約となっている。大規模AIクラスターでは、数千のGPUを接続するケーブルとトランシーバーがネットワーク総コストのおよそ半分を占め、消費電力では半分以上に達する。より大きなAIモデルを支えるためにシステムが拡張されるにつれ、銅ベースの相互接続が要求する電力は指数関数的に増大する。...
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Forbes JAPAN 公式サイト（フォーブス ジャパン）

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Japan Verified
ピュア・ストレージとして16年を歩んできた同社は、いま「Everpure」として知られる存在となり、エンタープライズのデータ基盤の性質変化を映し出す決定的な転換を遂げた。 このリブランディングは、データ・インテリジェンス企業1touchの買収および過去最高の四半期決算と並行して発表された。組織が人工知能の要請に向き合うなかで、エンタープライズIT支出のより大きな取り分をめぐる競争に同社を位置づける狙いがある。 社名変更は、企業の意思決定者が同社をどう捉えるかを再定義し、サーバールームの枠を超えて経営層（C-suite）へと対話を広げるための、計算された一手である。 なぜ「Storage」を捨てる必要があったのか 社名から「Storage」を外す理由は、企業が新たに台頭するAIワークフローに対応するため、どのように進化しているかに集約される。CEOのチャーリー・ジャンカルロは、同社のFY2026第4四半期の決算説明で、データ管理、データセキュリティ、AI戦略を担う人物像は、従来ピュアの製品を評価してきたストレージ管理者とは異なると説明した。...
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Forbes JAPAN 公式サイト（フォーブス ジャパン）

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Japan Verified
エンタープライズストレージ市場は、パンデミック以来で最も重大なサプライチェーンの混乱に直面している。AIインフラへの飽くなき需要に突き動かされた世界的なメモリ危機により、ストレージベンダーは値上げを迫られ、見積もりの有効期限を短縮し、顧客への提供のあり方そのものを根本から見直している。インフラ投資を計画するIT責任者にとって、その影響は即座に、かつ避けられない形で現れている。 数字は厳然たる現実を物語っている。2025年第3四半期末時点でDRAM価格は前年同期比172%上昇し、DDR5の契約価格は単月で最大100%急騰した。NAND価格も同様の軌跡をたどり、ある大手サプライヤーは2025年第1四半期比で246%の上昇を報告している。 メモリメーカーのSKハイニックス、サムスン、マイクロンは、AIアクセラレーター向けの広帯域メモリ（HBM）に生産能力を再配分しており、エンタープライズストレージシステムを支える従来型メモリ製品に構造的な供給不足が生じている。...
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What Every CIO Can Learn From MLS's First Wi-Fi 7 Stadium

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
The 22,000 fans who pack BMO Stadium for Los Angeles Football Club matches bring more than their voices. They bring multiple connected devices each, creating a wireless environment that would cripple most enterprise networks within minutes. When LAFC announced its partnership with Ruckus Networks to deploy Wi-Fi 7 throughout the stadium, the club was addressing a business-critical infrastructure problem affecting every public venue operator in the country.
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Nvidia’s Optical Strategy: $4 Billion Reshapes AI Data Center Economics

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Nvidia announced strategic investments of $2 billion each in Lumentum and Coherent, two of the world's leading optical component manufacturers. The company also participated in a $500 million funding round for Ayar Labs, a startup developing optical chiplets. These investments are designed to lock in competitive advantages that will help define the next-generation AI infrastructure market.
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NVIDIA Strategic Investments in Optical Interconnects

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By Steve McDowell
| nand-research.com
NVIDIA has committed over $4 billion in direct strategic investments across two optical interconnect companies, Lumentum and Coherent, supplemented by multibillion-dollar purchase agreements and equity participation in the optical startup Ayar Labs: NVIDIA committed $2 billion each to Lumentum Holdings and Coherent Corp., securing priority access to advanced laser components and optical networking products through multibillion-dollar purchase agreements The company also participated in Ayar...
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From Storage To Data: Inside Pure Storage’s Rebranding As Everpure

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
After sixteen years as Pure Storage, the company now known as Everpure has made a decisive pivot that reflects the changing nature of enterprise data infrastructure. The rebrand, announced alongside the acquisition of data intelligence company 1touch and a record-breaking earnings quarter, positions the company to compete for a larger share of enterprise IT spending as organizations grapple with the demands of artificial intelligence.
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The Memory Crisis Is Reshaping Enterprise Storage: What IT Leaders Need To Know

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
The enterprise storage market faces its most significant supply chain disruption since the pandemic. A global memory crisis, driven by insatiable demand for AI infrastructure, is forcing storage vendors to raise prices, shorten quote validity windows, and fundamentally rethink how they serve customers. For IT leaders planning infrastructure investments, the implications are immediate and unavoidable. The numbers tell a stark story.
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Nutanix-AMD $250M Strategic Partnership For Enterprise AI Inference

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
AMD and Nutanix have entered a multi-year strategic partnership valued at up to $250 million to deliver a comprehensive, open AI infrastructure platform optimized for agentic AI applications. This partnership targets the rapidly growing market for enterprise AI inference. The deal was announced as Nutanix released earnings that beat top- and bottom-line estimates, and just a day following news of AMD’s $100 billion deal with Meta.
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IBM Brings Autonomous Agentic-AI Operations To Enterprise Storage

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
IBM entered 2026 with numbers it hasn’t posted in years. In its latest earnings release, the company delivered 6% revenue growth in 2025, its highest in many years, and generated $14.7 billion in free cash flow, the strongest figure in over a decade. Infrastructure led the charge, growing 10% for the full year with the z17 mainframe platform reaching its highest annual revenue in roughly two decades.
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How Oracle Database 26ai Addresses The Enterprise AI Data Paradox

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Every enterprise IT executive faces the same AI paradox: their most valuable data sits locked in production databases, while the latest AI tools often operate in separate systems, creating security gaps, compliance risks, and expensive data movement. The recent Oracle AI Database 26ai release, which is now available for Linux, addresses this problem. The new offering architects AI capabilities directly into the database platform that already runs core business operations.
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Cisco, Nutanix, And Pure Storage Jointly Deliver VMware Alternative

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Broadcom's 2023 acquisition of VMware fundamentally altered the enterprise virtualization market. What followed were dramatic price increases, forced bundling of unwanted products, and the elimination of perpetual licensing options that many enterprises relied on for budget predictability. Gartner now projects that by 2028, cost concerns will drive 70% of enterprise-scale VMware customers to migrate at least half of their virtual workloads to alternative platforms.
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Wind River Tops ABI Rankings As VMware Alternative For Intelligent Edge

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
It’s a pivotal time for enterprise infrastructure. Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has shaken up the virtualization market. IT infrastructure is now commonly built on hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architectures, complicating how that infrastructure is managed. The adoption of AI in the enterprise is driving a push towards a more intelligent edge.
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Marvell’s $3.8B Play For Next-Gen AI Data Center Market

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Marvell NurPhoto via Getty Images AI infrastructure economics have reached a turning point. As enterprises deploy larger models requiring thousands of interconnected processors, copper wiring has become a bottleneck. Electrical signals degrade over distance, consume too much power, and cannot provide the bandwidth modern AI workloads require. Marvell Technology's recent acquisitions of Celestial AI for $3.25 billion and XConn Technologies for $540 million address this constraint directly.
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Marvell’s $3.8 Billion Play For Next-Gen AI Data Center Market

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Marvell NurPhoto via Getty Images AI infrastructure economics have reached a turning point. As enterprises deploy larger models requiring thousands of interconnected processors, copper wiring has become a bottleneck. Electrical signals degrade over distance, consume too much power, and cannot provide the bandwidth modern AI workloads require. Marvell Technology's recent acquisitions of Celestial AI for $3.25 billion and XConn Technologies for $540 million address this constraint directly.
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IBM’s $11 Billion Bet On A Data Streaming Infrastructure Company

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
IBM Corp SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images IBM is betting $11 billion that real-time data infrastructure will become as critical to AI deployments as databases were to enterprise applications. The company's just-announced acquisition of Confluent will give IBM control of the commercial platform for Apache Kafka.
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F1’s Williams Racing Puts Atlassian Under The Stopwatch

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
AUSTIN, TX - OCTOBER 17: Atlassian Williams Racing driver Alexander Albon (23) of Thailand speeds out of turn 15 during the first practice session of the Formula 1 MSC Cruises United States Grand Prix on October 17, 2025, at Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas.(Photo by David Buono/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Walk through the paddock at any Formula One Grand Prix, and you'll see a who's who of enterprise IT.
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NetApp Accuses VAST Executive Of Stealing Trade Secrets

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
In what reads like a corporate thriller with a dash of dark comedy, NetApp has filed an explosive lawsuit against one of its former senior executives, alleging he secretly developed a competing business while still collecting a paycheck. He then sold the business to a direct rival for an undisclosed sum just weeks after leaving the company.
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Oracle Unveils Multicloud Lakehouse With Native Apache Iceberg Integration

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Oracle Corporation NurPhoto via Getty Images Today’s AI-first environment is pushing traditional enterprise data architectures to a breaking point. Organizations store critical business information across fragmented systems, with data warehouses on one platform, data lakes on another, and operational databases elsewhere. This forces teams to duplicate and move data, maintain complex pipelines, and potentially sacrifice openness, performance, and security.
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Oracle Unveils Multicloud Lakehouse With Native Apache Iceberg Integration

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By Steve McDowell
| Flipboard
Here's the Right Temperature for Your Thermostat in the Winter Find out how the experts recommend managing your heat to stay comfortable while saving money. Let's be real: Cranking up the heat all winter feels like setting money on fire, especially when those brutal cold snaps hit. But before you resign yourself to wearing three sweaters indoors or facing a …
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Behind Qualcomm’s Arduino Acquisition: 33 Million IoT Developers

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Qualcomm-based Arduino UNO Q Qualcomm When Qualcomm recently announced its acquisition of Arduino, the technology press focused on specifications and development tools. But the real story is about market access. Qualcomm, a company built on selling chips to companies like Samsung and Apple in volumes of hundreds of millions, bought a platform whose users often purchase single development boards for hobby projects.
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Research Note: Cloudera Adds Support for Dell ObjectScale

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By Steve McDowell
| nand-research.com
Cloudera announced the integration of Dell ObjectScale into its AI-in-a-Box offering, positioning the collaboration as a comprehensive Private AI platform for enterprise-scale deployments. The new  integration allows Cloudera’s compute engines to operate directly against Dell’s object storage infrastructure, creating what the vendors characterize as a validated, integrated data platform.
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Research Note: Pure Storage September Platform Updates

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By Steve McDowell
| nand-research.com
At its recent Accelerate event in New York, Pure Storage announced a comprehensive platform refresh, introducing six major product updates that span high-performance storage arrays, AI acceleration capabilities, cloud-native services, and advanced storage modules. The new FlashArray//XL190 R5 and FlashArray//ST R5 deliver significant performance improvements for mission-critical workloads, while the 300TB DirectFlash Modules double storage density.
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Research Note: Pure Storage Enhances Cyber-Resilience

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By Steve McDowell
| nand-research.com
At its recent Accelerate event in New York, Pure Storage unveiled a comprehensive expansion of its cyber-resilience capabilities centered on three core pillars: Native threat detection Automated recovery orchestration Integrated partner capabilities. Key partnerships with CrowdStrike, Veeam, and Superna provide real-time SIEM integration, automated backup orchestration, and file-level monitoring capabilities.
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Atlassian's $1B DX Deal Targets AI Development Investment

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Atlassian Corp. announced its largest acquisition to date with its $1 billion cash-and-stock deal for developer productivity platform DX. The move comes as enterprises struggle to quantify returns on massive AI-driven software development investments, positioning Atlassian to capitalize on a critical market need.
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New Platform And An Acquisition

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
AI is reshaping enterprise operations at unprecedented speed. It's also creating cybersecurity challenges that traditional approaches struggle to address. As organizations deploy autonomous AI agents to handle everything from customer service to financial analysis, a critical question emerges: Who is responsible for securing the AI systems themselves? Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike unveiled its answer at its annual Fal.Con event in Las Vegas.
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Pre-Built Storage Pods Remove Enterprise AI Scaling Bottlenecks Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Enterprise IT leaders face unprecedented challenges as they task their teams with deploying AI infrastructure quickly enough to meet business needs and capitalize on emerging market opportunities. They are forced to navigate this while also avoiding the operational complexity that has historically plagued enterprise storage. At the same time, legacy storage protocols are being replaced by newer approaches that better meet the needs of scalable, performance-driven AI workloads.
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Broadcom Plays Defense At VMware Explore 2025 Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
US President Donald Trump jokes with Broadcom CEO Hock Tan (Photo credit NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images When Broadcom completed its $69 billion acquisition of VMware, the company promised predictable growth from one of the most entrenched platforms in enterprise IT. Less than two years later, the numbers validate that bet.
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Why GSIs Are Winning The Enterprise AI Race

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Arrow McLaren IndyCar sponsored by NTT DATA. Steve McDowell The pit area of an IndyCar race is an unlikely place to learn about the challenges of enterprise AI. Yet, it was in a trailer housing the Arrow McLaren IndyCar team at the recent Java House Grand Prix near Monterey, California, where I did just that. Calling it a trailer is a disservice.
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Breaking Down Palo Alto Networks’ $25B CyberArk Acquisition

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
Palo Alto Networks SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Every enterprise’s most sensitive data and critical systems are just one stolen password away from catastrophe. With about 88% of cyber breaches now originating from credential theft, the traditional approach to cybersecurity has proven inadequate for protecting modern enterprises.
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Digital Transformation At Sea: Carnival's DXC Technology Alliance Original

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
AVALON, CA - MAY 19: General views of the Carnival Radiance cruise ship at Avalon harbor on May 19, ... More 2023 in Avalon, California. (Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) GC Images When Carnival Cruise Line embarked on modernizing the technology foundation behind its global fleet and operations, the company did what many others are increasingly doing: it partnered with a global systems integrator with deep expertise in complex IT environments.
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VMware Alternative that Meets Existing and Future IT Needs

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By Steve McDowell
| NUTANIX
When McDowell looks at where IT innovation is rapidly evolving, he said it's not clear how much Broadcom VMware is investing in what's next.
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Letter to the editor: Sen. Marshall’s misinformation

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By Steve McDowell
| Lawrence Journal-World Verified
Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development Store and/or access information on a device You can choose how your personal data is used.
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The Impact Of Data Infrastructure On Global AI Leadership

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By Steve McDowell
| Forbes Verified
NetApp Gado via Getty Images NetApp recently released findings from its 2025 AI Space Race report, a global research initiative designed to benchmark AI readiness across executive leadership and IT teams. The dataset comprises feedback from 800 executives, evenly split between CEOs and IT leaders, from the United States, United Kingdom, China, and India. The research captures a pivotal moment in the adoption of enterprise AI.
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