Google Cloud announced a $750 million fund to deliver new resources and incentives to partners in its 120,000-member partner ecosystem to help accelerate joint customers’ transformations with agentic AI.The fund, available for global consulting firms, systems integrators, software partners, and channel partners, will support AI value identification, agentic AI prototyping, agent building and deployment, upskilling, […]

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NetApp, an intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced a strategic evolution in its partnership with Google Cloud, which has enabled enterprises to drive AI innovation with their own data stored in the NetApp data platform.After seeing the productivity and innovation benefits customers experienced using Gemini Enterprise integrated with their data in Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, […]

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Commvault Systems Inc., a active player in unified resilience at enterprise scale, announced that, based on strong customer demand, Clumio, a Commvault company, is extending its cloud-native cyber resilience capabilities to Google Cloud Storage, while expanding support for the leading hyperscaler environments.Customers using Google Cloud Storage can leverage Clumio to protect and recover large-scale datasets […]

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Quantum Corporation announced that North Shore Automation’s Stats Injector is now fully compatible with Quantum CatDV, the media asset management and workflow orchestration platform used by broadcasters, sports leagues, and post-production teams world-wide, bringing automated, data-driven clip logging to live sports production workflows.The integration, already deployed in production with the Miami HEAT, is designed to pull […]

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Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, announced a set of new AI-focused capabilities at GrafanaCON 2026: AI Observability in Grafana Cloud; a significant expansion of Grafana Assistant into more environments, as well as new agentic capabilities; the Grafana Cloud CLI (GCX), a new agentic interface for automated and agent-driven workflows; and o11y-bench, […]

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Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, today unveiled Grafana 13 and a wave of open source updates at GrafanaCON 2026, anchored by a next-generation Grafana Loki architecture and simpler paths to OpenTelemetry on Linux and Kubernetes.According to Grafana Labs’ 2026 Observability Survey, more than 77% of organizations now lean on open source/open standards for […]

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Lightbits Labs, inventor of the NVMe over TCP storage protocol and the first KV cache engine optimized for AI, will showcase industry-leading software-defined block storage, demonstrating how financial institutions can eliminate storage bottlenecks for analytics and transactional workloads at scale, reduce infrastructure costs, and modernize legacy SAN environments at STAC Summits worldwide in 2026.For capital […]

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Yugabyte, a distributed SQL database company, announced a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with AWS.Yugabyte helps enterprises modernize their legacy databases and scale cloud-native applications on AWS by providing high availability, global distribution, and operational resilience. Yugabyte is building on established customer momentum, with 30+ enterprises across financial services, technology, and gaming running YugabyteDB on AWS. […]

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Quinas Technology Ltd, developer of the disruptive UltraRAM non-volatile memory technology, has announced a significant milestone in its research and development programme, confirming the use of Atomic Layer Etching (ALE) to fabricate and refine its quantum-engineered device structures at Kaust Core Labs in Saudi Arabia.The work builds on more than a decade of foundational quantum […]

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From University of Stuttgart In collaboration with international partners, researchers at the University of Stuttgart have experimentally demonstrated a previously unknown form of magnetism in atomically thin material layers. New type of magnetism discovered in 2D materials [Picture: University of Stuttgart / Ludmilla Parsyak] The discovery is highly relevant for future magnetic data storage technologies […]

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Vast Data, an AI operating system company, announced the closing of its Series F financing at a $30 billion valuation, representing more than a threefold increase from its $9.1 billion Series E valuation in late 2023.The latest round was led by Drive Capital, with Access Industries acting as co-lead, and included participation from existing investors […]

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Blog written by Ian Buck, VP, hyperscale and HPC, Nvidia published April 22, 2026 Companies can build AI factories with Nvidia Vera Rubin-powered A5X instances scaling up to nearly 1 million Rubin GPUs, Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud, confidential Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and agentic AI built on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with Nvidia Nemotron and […]

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NetApp, an intelligent data infrastructure company, shared new innovations that help customers better leverage their enterprise data, by tapping into the benefits of AI with Google Cloud.Enterprises want to use their existing data for AI, but moving and managing that data across multiple environments is complex, slow, and expensive. NetApp is simplifying this with Google […]

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NetApp, an intelligent data infrastructure company, announced that it has received the 2026 Google Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Partner of the Year for Storage Award.NetApp is being recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping joint customers modernize their infrastructure and run enterprise workloads on Google Cloud using Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. “The Google […]

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DDN, a reference in AI data platform provider, shared groundbreaking innovations involving Google Cloud Managed Lustre, unveiled at Google Cloud Next 2026.Built on DDN’s proven Lustre expertise, EXAScaler, and delivered in collaboration with Google Cloud, these advancements redefine what’s possible for AI training, inference, and HPC\ in the cloud. With performance scaling to 10 terabytes […]

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Commvault Systems Inc., a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, today announced the Commvault Cloud platform will be available on Google Cloud, bringing new levels of resilience to customers.As organizations scale cloud-first and AI-driven applications, resilience becomes critical to maintaining always-on digital operations. In fact, 55% of organizations lack confidence in their ability to recover […]

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Quantum Corp. highlighted its solutions designed to address AI-driven supply chain and power challenges arising from surging costs, constrained availability, and supply uncertainty for flash and hard disk technologies.Ahead of the 2026 NAB Show, Quantum has introduced “shockproof workflows,” architectures intended to mitigate those vulnerabilities with available solutions that enable relief from energy constraints, lower […]

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AIC held an inauguration ceremony for its new Yangmei facility in Taoyuan, expanding its production capacity to address the strong growth momentum in AI and data center markets.On the same day, AIC hosted its 30th anniversary gala dinner at COZZI Hotel, bringing together key global customers and suppliers – including AMD, AMI, Broadcom, Intel, Phison, […]

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Opswat, a player in critical infrastructure protection (CIP) cybersecurity solutions, announced Opswat Predictive Alin AI, its first proprietary AI-based threat detection engine for the MetaDefender Platform.This AI-based innovation introduces a new category of capability within the MetaDefender Platform, a high-confidence predictive layer that works alongside existing detection and prevention engines to assess malicious intent before […]

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