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CoreWeave IPO Filing Offers a Glimpse Inside

AI infrastructure service provider CoreWeave has filed its S1 prospectus with the U.S. SEC, heralding a hope for a potential $4 billion IPO this year...

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March 05, 2025

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Arista Load Balances AI, Gets Oracle Onboard

Arista Networks introduces load balancing for AI workloads, along with significant AI-enabled capabilities for network observability and problem-solving...

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March 12, 2025

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Why Hyperscaler Capex Could Drop in 2026

Hyperscalers continue to pour money into AI infrastructure this year, but 2026 could see a big change, Futuriom estimates...

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April 16, 2025

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Lambda Scores $480 Million to Grow AI Services

Lamdba has raised $480 million in a Series D round backed by NVIDIA. It plans to use the money to grow its software services as well as add GPUs to its network...

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February 20, 2025

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Neoclouds vs. Hyperscalers: What’s the Difference?

Neoclouds' funding coffers helped them keep up in the race to build AI datacenters, but what next? If GPUs stop being scarce, then neoclouds need stronger differentiation -- as do hyperscalers, who have a broader arsenal to draw from....

By: Craig Matsumoto

April 24, 2025

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MWC 2025: It's a Wrap

Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona featured AI, AI, and more AI. Here's a quick take on some leading trends from the show...

By: Mary Jander

March 05, 2025

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AI Creates New Urgency for Datacenter Optics

The growth of AI networks has vendors preparing innovations that use optical technology to solve power, space, and speed challenges that come with ever-larger networks...

By: Mary Jander

April 01, 2025

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What's Next for HPE?

HPE faces a series of challenges, including tariffs and the potential loss of its bid for Juniper Networks. Here are some alternatives —Updated 4/15 12:00 PM...

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April 14, 2025

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The Futuriom 50 2025 Is Here!

Our annual report on top trends and private companies dives into AI infrastructure, distributed cloud, cloud security, and more ......

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February 19, 2025

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NVIDIA & AMD Score AI Hub Deals in Saudi Arabia

The chip giants announce deals with HUMAIN to build AI factories in Saudi Arabia, but the big numbers involved call for some perspective...

By: Craig Matsumoto

May 14, 2025

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Broadcom Chip Advances Ethernet for AI

Broadcom's Tomahawk 6 doubles the switch capacity of its predecessors while supporting Ethernet for "scale up" as well as "scale out" in a swipe at NVIDIA...

By: Mary Jander

June 04, 2025

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Cisco and NVIDIA Partnership Boosts AI Ethernet

Cisco and NVIDIA will combine the two vendors’ technologies at the chip level to serve enterprise AI requirements. Who wins—and who's left out?...

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February 26, 2025

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Inside the Tech Tariff Catastrophe

Tariffs and export controls meant to promote U.S. technology interests could stall the spread of key manufacturing and datacenter buildouts...

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April 21, 2025

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MCP for AI is Hot. But Where's the Security?

MCP has become the de facto option for connecting LLMs to myriad data sources. But only a few firms, including Teleport and SentinelOne, have addressed its security ...

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May 01, 2025

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Fidelity Ditches Terraform for OpenTofu

Fidelity's mass migration from Terraform to OpenTofu raises the stakes in the IaC market...

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April 04, 2025

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NVIDIA's CEO Talks Up AI Factories

At the annual NVIDIA GTC "Superbowl of AI," CEO Jensen Huang delivered a firehose of announcements focused on the needs of "AI factories"...

By: Mary Jander

March 19, 2025

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Why Network Security Convergence Is Shaking Up the Market

Networking and security are converging more than ever. Are big changes ahead? ...

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February 27, 2025

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Google to Pay $32 Billion for Wiz

UPDATED 3/19: Google makes a second run at acquiring cybersecurity startup Wiz, whose platform could potentially add significant value to Google Cloud...

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March 18, 2025

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UALink Offers Fresh Options for AI Networking

The UALink Consortium has published its first specification with the aim to offer an open-source alternative to NVLink and to offer support for GPUs besides NVIDIA's...

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April 21, 2025

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Microsoft and Meta Deliver on Earnings

Microsoft and Meta posted good earnings reports this week. But macro uncertainty could hinder their goals going forward...

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May 01, 2025

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CyberRatings: Cloud Firewalls Have Gaping Holes

A new test from CyberRatings.org shows that many cloud-hosted firewalls are ineffective...

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April 02, 2025

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Why Salesforce Will Buy Informatica for $8 Billion

Salesforce will buy data management vendor Informatica in an $8 billion deal that could boost the CRM company's agentic AI fortunes...

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May 27, 2025

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VAST Data Declares Itself an AI Operating System

All this time, VAST Data had more up its sleeve than storage or even a data platform. The company says it's built a full AI platform for the 'thinking machine.'...

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May 21, 2025

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What's Next for Networking Infrastructure for AI?

Futuriom's latest report digs into the details of what's happening in the marketplace for networking infrastructure for AI...

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May 14, 2025

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MCP Gets Ready for the Real World

The MCP protocol has captured developers' attention. Here's what it needs in order to enable AI automation on a grander scale...

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June 03, 2025

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DriveNets Drives Comcast Network Upgrade

The disaggregated design of DriveNets' Network Cloud is helping Comcast expand its software-defined, virtualized Janus network nationwide...

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March 25, 2025

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What's Not to Love about CoreWeave?

CoreWeave's IPO ignited tense hand-wringing over the neocloud business model, but investors have happily driven stock surges for both it and Nebius...

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June 12, 2025

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Palo Alto Shares Fall on Expense Concerns

Palo Alto Networks revenue grew 15%, but expenses came in higher than expected...

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May 21, 2025

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Markets Spooked By Microsoft AI Demand Questions

Word from TD Cowen is that Microsoft is pulling out of many datacenter buildouts. How does this reflect on the AI market?...

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February 25, 2025

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Saudi Arabia Highlights Shift to Sovereign AI

A KSA conference showcased the trend of ambitious nations sponsoring AI efforts with a view to economic opportunity...

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February 13, 2025

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Cisco Pops On Earnings, But Is It Sustainable?

Cisco shares gained after an upbeat earnings report, but there's a potential federal government overhang...

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February 13, 2025

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NVIDIA Hedges Tariff Threat With US Manufacturing

Chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas will help NVIDIA hedge against whatever happens with tariffs while also pushing the company's dreams of building more and more AI factories....

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April 15, 2025

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Cisco Doubles Down on NVIDIA AI, Portfolio Integration

As the new Chief Product Officer, Jeetu Patel is putting his imprint on the networking giant as Cisco emphasizes new integrations and partnerships. ...

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June 10, 2025

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Here Comes Post-Quantum Cryptography

Updated June 2, 2025—Enterprises are sitting on a ticking cryptographic timebomb due to the potential of quantum computing algorithms, but help is on the way...

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May 28, 2025

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Veteran analyst and technology savant Craig Matsumoto joins the Futuriom team!...

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March 26, 2025

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Teleport Expands Secure Identity Platform for Growth

Teleport beefs up its infrastructure identity platform to ease the headaches of managing secure access to cloud infrastructure...

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February 25, 2025

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NVIDIA Faces Tough Challenge on China

NVIDIA's Jensen Huang makes convincing arguments for staying in the Chinese market despite U.S. export restrictions. Now he must make his case clearer to the government...

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June 02, 2025

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Who Will Win the "Scale Up" Challenge?

A range of technologies are bidding for the market to interconnect XPUs to operate as a single entity, to create so-called scale-up architecture for AI pods...

By: Mary Jander

June 09, 2025

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AMD's New GPU Could Feed the Neoclouds

AMD's MI400 could give NVIDIA a run for its money—if AMD can get it out in 2026, that is. And neoclouds will play a key role...

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June 18, 2025

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NVIDIA Posts Solid Results Despite China Ban

NVIDIA posted strong quarterly results, despite headwinds from U.S. government export controls for China market...

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May 29, 2025

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Nokia Swaps Out CEO

Pekka Lundmark is stepping aside for Justin Hotard, who hails from Intel and HPE and could boost Nokia in datacenter, private mobile, and defense networking...

By: Mary Jander

February 10, 2025

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Fortanix Aims to Secure GenAI With a Turnkey Pipeline

Could GenAI be the moment for confidential computing? Fortanix, with Intel as a partner, offers a secure data pipeline to assuage enterprise fears over GenAI and data privacy...

By: Craig Matsumoto

April 08, 2025

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Itential Puts AI Agents and MCP to Work

Itential has stepped up its AI-driven network operations via integration with Selector, along with the introduction of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server...

By: Craig Matsumoto

May 28, 2025

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RSAC: AI Is Helping Hackers; We Need More AI!

Data and discussions from RSAC indicate the AI security risks and proposed solutions are proliferating at the same time. ...

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May 01, 2025

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Databricks & Snowflake Enter Agentic AI's Orbit

AI is changing enterprises' relationship with data. That means Databricks & Snowflake have to change, too, if they want to remain leading cloud data platforms...

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June 18, 2025

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NVIDIA: The "Age of AI" Is Just Beginning

NVIDIA delivered solid earnings above expectations last night, and CEO Jensen Huang expects more growth this year. So why aren't investors reassured?...

By: Mary Jander

February 27, 2025

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Q&A: Alaa Moussawi, Chief Data Scientist, New York City Council

The Chief Data Scientist of the New York City Council talks about why companies aren't yet adopting GenAI at scale, and what will help change that...

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April 01, 2025

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Messaging Hack Hints at Broader U.S. Cybersecurity Weakness

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May 05, 2025

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Aryaka Adds Powerful AI Observability to Its NaaS

Aryaka Networks has beefed up its SASE portfolio with AI>Observe, a suite of powerful security analytics functions...

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February 19, 2025

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Telco Trends Recap: AI-RAN Brings AI to the Edge

This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona focused on telco opportunities in AI. In this report, we sum up our findings. ...

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May 06, 2025

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Who Is Oracle's $30 Billion Mystery Customer?

Here are some candidates for Oracle's $30 billion customer, though it may take two years for the money to show...

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July 02, 2025

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MinIO Faces Fallout for Stripping Functions from Open Source Version

Open-source users of MinIO's S3-compatible object store have lost some Web UI features they freely enjoyed, highlighting an issue for enterprise software vendors...

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June 23, 2025

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Dell Pushes Disaggregation for the Private Cloud

Dell is championing disaggreagation, rethinking hyperconverged infrastructure to allow flexibility of software and cloud OS choices. ...

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May 20, 2025

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Who Will Win from the HPE-Juniper Merger?

The U.S. Department of Justice has okayed the HPE-Juniper merger with conditions that could abundantly benefit third parties...

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June 30, 2025

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Delivering ROI with Unified SASE as a Service

How Thetford Increased Reliability and Decreased Operational Costs with Aryaka ...

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May 08, 2025

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Vultr's AI Cloud Ambitions Aim High

With a $329 million debt financing on the heels of a $333 million funding round, Vultr is poised to pit the alternative cloud model against neoclouds as well as hyperscalers...

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June 24, 2025

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Itential’s CTO Chris Wade: We Need More APIs for AIOps

Chris Wade, CTO of Itential, thinks that AI is on the cusp of impacting how we think about all applications and infrastructure in general. Here's what he's saying...

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April 01, 2025

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Aviatrix's Vision for Multicloud Operations with Colocation

As distributed application and data needs climb, a unified network management plane will be needed for multicloud environments...

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April 08, 2025

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Delivering ROI with Extreme Fabric: Views from the Field

This Leadership Brief shows how Extreme Fabric's virtualization and automation technology simplifies network switching, routing and security. ...

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May 06, 2025

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Pure Storage Elevates Management and Automation

Pure Storage announced hardware and software designed to elevate the capabilities of its storage arrays to function in hyperscaler and enterprise AI workloads ...

By: Mary Jander

June 19, 2025

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Why Enterprises Prefer Proprietary AI

Futuriom's brand-new Enterprise AI Index reveals the top verticals using AI—and why they prefer their own platforms and models...

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June 16, 2025

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HPE Bets Big on Agentic AI

HPE has boosted its Aruba and GreenLake products with agentic AI, which could stand it in good stead whether it acquires Juniper or not...

By: Mary Jander

June 25, 2025

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Cloudflare Pushes Back on AI 'Strip mining'

CEO Matthew Prince says AI's 'stripmining' of content has accelerated dramatically in six months. He wants to rethink the way we value web content...

By: Craig Matsumoto

July 02, 2025

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Inside Index Engines' CyberSense Research Lab

How Index Engines built an integrated cyber resiliency solution to backup, storage, and more to minimize the impact of ransomware attacks using highly trained AI and analytics....

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June 23, 2025

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Q&A: Dia Adams, Enterprise Data/AI Strategist, TCG

An Enterprise Data/AI Strategist at TCG, a leading technology consultancy to U.S. government agencies, Dia Adams discusses how to make enterprise AI successful...

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July 03, 2025

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Achieving TCO Savings with Unified SASE

A "Unified SASE" approach to security and networking can deliver operational and direct cost savings of up to 50%...

By: R. Scott Raynovich

July 07, 2025