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What changed recently
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The complete cloud footprint: Why cloud emissions reports don’t tell the whole carbon, water and electricity story
Organizations measuring their cloud footprint today are working from half the picture and they don’t know it. I saw this firsthand in a recent conversation with a large European organization about Cloud Sustainability and our newest AI Sustainability capabilities. The team already understood the industry’s familiar problem: nobody agrees on which cloud emissions number is correct. Then we opened…
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Overcoming AI Supply-Chain Bottlenecks Isn’t Just About the Compute
Compute availability is the primary bottleneck complicating most organizations’ AI strategies. Plenty of ink has been spilled regarding GPU/CPU availability, but many other core…
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Introducing HPE ProLiant Gen13: Reliability redefined for AI-era workloads
As organizations scale AI, infrastructure supports more of the work that keeps the business moving, from financial models and manufacturing simulations to AI applications. These environments are more complex to protect and manage. When systems go down, critical work can slow or stop. That is why reliability today must extend beyond consistent performance. It must include built-in protection,…
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HPE accelerates enterprise AI innovation with next-generation AMD CPU-powered servers
HOUSTON, Oct. 7, 2026, HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced the first four of its HPE ProLiant Gen13 Servers powered by 6th Generation AMD EPYC™ Server processors. The new systems expand compute, memory, and I/O capabilities to help enterprises accelerate agentic AI and inference, analytics, virtualization, simulation, and modeling while strengthening security, simplifying operations, and providing…
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Is Your AI Strategy Creating New Concentration Risk?
Many financial institutions use AI to enable mission-critical applications like fraud detection, risk scoring, and real-time decision-making. These AI-driven applications help them move faster…
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AI governance isn’t slowing innovation. It’s what makes scale possible
Key findings AI governance is becoming an enabler, not an obstacle. Organizations are increasingly using governance frameworks to create the visibility, accountability and confidence needed to scale AI initiatives safely and effectively Shadow AI is emerging as one of the biggest barriers to enterprise AI adoption. Without visibility into employee-built applications, AI tools and…
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Mizuho Securities selects HPE to accelerate advanced financial simulations and strengthen AI readiness
Tokyo, Japan, October 6, 2026, HPE (NYSE: HPE) and Mizuho Securities today announced that Mizuho Securities will build a new direct liquid cooling ready data center and deploy HPE Cray XD2000. The new infrastructure will support Mizuho Securities in advancing its global business strategy and delivering higher-value financial products and services to a wider customer base. Installation of the…
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You Need a Strategy for Enterprise AI Resilience
For the past few years, enterprise leaders have focused on standing up AI quickly. This means getting the hardware, models and datasets needed to…
Companies to know in Hybrid & Multicloud
Those stories keep returning to the same names. These are the companies we track in this category; each profile has its news, solutions and published reviews.
HPE
Spring (Houston), Texas, USA
HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services, including the HPE GreenLake cloud platform. Formed in 2015 when Hewlett-Packard split in two, HPE focuses on edge-to-cloud infrastructure and AI, and it expanded its networking business by acquiring Juniper Networks in July 2025.
Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Red Hat is an enterprise open source software company best known for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud application platform and Ansible Automation Platform. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Red Hat has operated as an independent subsidiary of IBM since IBM acquired it in 2019.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, USA
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications, security products and developer tools such as GitHub. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is one of the largest providers of cloud and AI services to businesses.
Broadcom
Palo Alto, California, USA
Broadcom is a US semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, formed when Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016. It sells networking, broadband, storage and custom AI accelerator chips, and infrastructure software including VMware Cloud Foundation, Tanzu and CA and Symantec enterprise products. It completed its acquisition of VMware in 2023.
Nutanix
San Jose, California, USA
Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud software company whose Nutanix Cloud Platform combines hyperconverged compute and storage, the AHV hypervisor, unified file and object storage, Kubernetes management and database services. It serves enterprises running applications across data centres, edge sites and public clouds, including through NC2 on AWS and Azure. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix is listed on Nasdaq.
Dell Technologies
Round Rock, Texas, USA
Dell Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It sells PCs, servers, storage, networking and data protection products and services, including PowerEdge servers, PowerStore, PowerScale and PowerMax storage, PowerProtect data protection and the Dell AI Factory. Dell was founded by Michael Dell in 1984; Dell Technologies was formed in 2016 when Dell acquired EMC. It is listed on the NYSE (DELL).
Google Cloud
Mountain View, California, USA
Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery, Spanner and the Vertex AI platform with Gemini models, as well as Google Workspace. It serves enterprises, public sector organisations and startups through global cloud regions.
Amazon Web Services
Seattle, Washington, USA
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and platform services including EC2 compute, S3 storage, databases such as Aurora and DynamoDB, EKS containers, IoT, analytics, Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker for AI, and Trainium and Graviton custom chips.
IBM
Armonk, New York, USA
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform, IBM Z mainframes and Power servers, IBM Storage, Db2 databases, and automation and observability software such as Instana and HashiCorp Terraform. Founded in 1911 and headquartered in Armonk, New York, IBM is listed on the NYSE.
Oracle
Austin, Texas, USA
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It serves enterprises and governments with databases, ERP, HCM and industry applications, and cloud infrastructure for AI training and inference. Founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, Oracle is listed on the NYSE and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Cisco
San Jose, California, USA
Cisco is a US networking and security company founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells enterprise, data centre and service provider networking (Catalyst, Nexus, Meraki, Silicon One), security products including firewalls and Cisco Security Cloud, Splunk observability and security analytics, and Webex collaboration. It completed its acquisition of Splunk in 2024.
NetApp
San Jose, California, USA
NetApp is a data infrastructure company that sells unified storage systems, data management software and cloud storage services. Its ONTAP operating system powers AFF and FAS arrays and first-party cloud services such as Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Azure NetApp Files and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Founded in 1992 as Network Appliance, NetApp is listed on Nasdaq and headquartered in San Jose, California.
Lenovo
Hong Kong, China
Lenovo is a multinational technology company that makes PCs, smartphones, servers, storage and IT services. Its Infrastructure Solutions Group sells ThinkSystem servers, ThinkAgile hyperconverged systems, ThinkSystem storage and Neptune liquid-cooled systems for HPC and AI. Founded in Beijing in 1984, Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and acquired IBM's PC business in 2005 and x86 server business in 2014.
Equinix
Redwood City, California, USA
Equinix is a global digital infrastructure company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It operates International Business Exchange (IBX) colocation data centres in many metropolitan markets worldwide, along with interconnection services such as Equinix Fabric and Internet Exchange, and xScale hyperscale data centres. Equinix is structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT) and is listed on Nasdaq (EQIX).
HashiCorp
San Francisco, California, USA
HashiCorp is a US infrastructure software company known for Terraform for infrastructure as code and Vault for secrets management, alongside Consul, Nomad, Packer, Vagrant and Boundary. It offers these through HashiCorp Cloud Platform and self-managed enterprise editions. Founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in San Francisco, HashiCorp was acquired by IBM in 2025.
Rackspace Technology
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Rackspace Technology is a US managed cloud and IT services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. It designs, migrates and operates workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and private cloud infrastructure, and provides managed hosting, security and application services. Rackspace is majority-owned by funds managed by Apollo Global Management and is listed on Nasdaq.
Kyndryl
New York City, New York, USA
Kyndryl is an IT infrastructure services company that designs, runs and modernises mission-critical systems for large enterprises, covering cloud, applications, data and AI, networking, security and resilience, and mainframe services. Formed in 2021 through the spin-off of IBM's managed infrastructure services business, Kyndryl is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and headquartered in New York City.
Flexera
Itasca, Illinois, USA
Flexera is a US software company that helps organisations manage and optimise technology spend across software licences, SaaS and public cloud. Its Flexera One platform covers IT asset management, FinOps and cloud cost optimisation, and technology intelligence. Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, Flexera is privately held and has expanded through acquisitions including Snow Software and Spot from NetApp.
SUSE
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
SUSE is an enterprise open source software company founded in 1992 in Nuremberg, Germany. It develops SUSE Linux Enterprise, the Rancher Prime Kubernetes management platform, NeuVector container security, and edge and AI infrastructure offerings for enterprises across cloud, data centre and edge environments. SUSE is owned by private equity firm EQT and sponsors the openSUSE community project.
Canonical
London, England, United Kingdom
Canonical is a British software company founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth and headquartered in London. It publishes Ubuntu, the open-source Linux distribution, and sells commercial support and security maintenance through Ubuntu Pro, along with open-source infrastructure products including Canonical Kubernetes, MicroK8s, OpenStack, LXD, MAAS and Juju. Canonical is privately held.
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Tokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing: What every IT and finance leader needs to know (2026)
Over the last two years, the enterprise playbook for AI adoption was simple: use more of it. More tokens, more seats and more agentic workflows, on the belief that heavier usage would lead to faster returns. In 2026, that approach picked up a name, tokenmaxxing, as some companies began using token consumption and token leaderboards to measure and encourage AI adoption. But as AI usage grows, so…
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AI cost management: The complete guide for enterprise IT
AI cost management is the practice of tracking, allocating, optimizing and governing every dollar an organization spends on AI. That spend hides in more places than most teams expect. Some of it sits in standalone AI apps and AI agents, plus AI add-ons inside SaaS suites, often licensed per user and sometimes bought without IT’s knowledge. Some of it comes from model inference, where providers…
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HPE chosen to deliver intelligent connectivity and autonomous IT operations at the 2027 Ryder Cup
London, UK, October 5, 2026, HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced it will return as a Worldwide Supplier of the 2027 Ryder Cup, delivering an intelligent foundation that powers the digital fan experience, autonomous IT operations and AI-driven intelligence. A seamless and secure HPE Self-Driving Network will keep fans, staff, and systems connected, and an advanced Connected Intelligence Center will…
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What’s new at Flexera: September 2026
Track carbon, water, and electricity across AI models, workloads and tokens The new AI Sustainability experience in the Cloud Sustainability dashboard reveals the financial and environmental impact of AI services running in connected AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud accounts. It helps organizations understand not only AI costs, but also the environmental impact associated with that…
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How Software-Defined Networking Cuts Provisioning Time from 32 Hours to 4
The drawbacks of traditional network provisioning are clear and obvious. Companies have to work with a network carrier to schedule a physical circuit turn-up,…
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Equinix at NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026
Equinix® Inference Exchange, built with NVIDIA and Together AI, shortens the path from GPU to production inference. Where inference runs now determines its performance, cost…
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HPE to outline Networking priorities for long-term value creation
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 30, 2026, HPE (NYSE: HPE) today is hosting HPE Networking Investor Day, where Networking business leaders will outline a strategy designed to accelerate profitable growth and long-term shareholder value creation in the AI era. The company will share how HPE plans to capture expansive demand across Data Center Networking, Routing, Campus & Branch, and Security,…
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HPE secures its first AMD Helios order in $1.2 billion deal with Vultr
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 30, 2026, HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced a $1.2 billion order from Vultr, the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company, to deploy AMD Helios™ AI Rack by HPE systems at Vultr’s cloud data center locations in the United States. It is HPE's first order for the new AMD Helios system, which features purpose-built HPE Networking scale-up switching and…
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Is Your Network Redundancy Actually a Single Point of Failure?
Our entire global financial system relies on digital infrastructure to connect institutions with partners, providers and customers. It’s because of cable systems and data…
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Saudi German Health UAE transforms digital healthcare in the UAE with the HPE Self-Driving Network
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 29, 2026, HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced that Saudi German Health UAE, one of the leading private healthcare providers across the Middle East and North Africa, has selected HPE’s wired, wireless NAC solution managed via HPE Aruba Central to modernize its network infrastructure and accelerate the next phase of its digital healthcare transformation in the…
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AST Completes Singapore's First High-End FC-BGA Substrate Facility to Meet Growing AI Chip Demand
First Flip Chip Ball Grid Array (FC-BGA) substrate production facility in Singapore Addresses one of the most critical supply chain capacity constraints of the semiconductor industry Diversifies Singapore’s semiconductor ecosystem beyond current wafer fab, IC design and assembly operations. 29
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Is Your AI Governance Framework Ready for Autonomous Agents?
As enterprises ramp up agentic AI adoption, traditional governance processes are no longer good enough. These processes typically rely on humans to make all the…
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Reclaiming Control: Delivering Virtualization Freedom
Recent licensing and pricing changes have forced many organizations to re-evaluate their virtualization strategies. Rising costs, increased complexity, and concerns about vendor lock-in are driving IT leaders to explore alternative approaches.
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Accelerating Workload Mobility with Zero Copy Migrations using Nutanix Move
Migrating Virtual Machines (VM) between different hypervisors historically meant copying the VM data over the network from the source to the target environments.
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How enterprises can govern employee use of AI tools and SaaS apps
Your next AI governance problem may already be open in someone’s browser. Maybe your colleague pasted a portion of a client brief into ChatGPT or Claude to quickly generate a proposal. Maybe someone on your team signed up for a SaaS app on a personal card because procurement was taking forever. Or maybe they clicked “Allow” when a new app asked to read their work email and files. Any one of these…
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HPE teams with NVIDIA to bring secure, governed agentic AI into enterprise production
Put Agent controls where they can be enforced Autonomous AI agents do more than generate answers. They use tools, access data, write files, call APIs, and take actions across enterprise systems. As their autonomy grows, enterprises need clear answers to three questions: Where are our agents running? What can they reach? What did they do? These are operational questions. Controls documented in a…