Everpure has announced a second design win with a top-five hyperscaler for its DirectFlash® storage technology, building on a similar win from late 2024. ECI Research examines why hyperscalers are rethinking storage architecture in the AI era and what the deal signals for enterprise buyers. Revenue contributions are expected to begin in fiscal year 2028.
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Act Security has launched an action-centric cloud security platform backed by $60 million from Team8, Bessemer, and Notable Capital. Rather than surfacing vulnerability findings, the platform removes the access paths that make breaches possible. The announcement arrives as AI agents inherit unused cloud permissions and operate at machine speed inside production environments.
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Every event has a theme that becomes obvious after a few days of keynotes, briefings, hallway conversations, and customer discussions.
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Starburst has appointed Paras Malhotra as Chief Information Security Officer, bringing deep security leadership from AWS and Datadog to its federated data and AI platform. The hire signals that Starburst is treating security and governance as competitive differentiators in the enterprise AI market. ECI Research analyzes what this means for ITDMs and developers evaluating federated data infrastructure.
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Geopolitical tensions are exposing a critical flaw in enterprise data sovereignty strategies: existing frameworks were built for regulatory compliance, not wartime resilience. IFS CTO Kevin Miller argues that manufacturers need cross-border data-sharing alliances and tighter control over where data physically lives. ECI Research breaks down what this means for ITDMs and architects managing industrial workloads in high-risk regions.
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Equinix sustainability gains highlight how AI infrastructure efficiency, energy, and water use shape data center strategy.
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Qdrant has announced three enterprise capabilities for Qdrant Cloud: GPU-accelerated HNSW indexing, Multi-AZ cluster replication, and audit logging. The release addresses the three core procurement questions enterprise teams ask before deploying vector search in production. ECI Research analysts assess what this means for ITDMs, developers, and the competitive landscape.
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Orbital explores space-based AI data centers to overcome power and cooling limits, reshaping how inference infrastructure scales.
AI Infrastructure Scales Beyond Earth as Power Limits Drive Innovation Read More »
Dell advances AI infrastructure with AI Factory and NVIDIA, as enterprises shift from experimentation to production-scale AI systems.
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At KubeCon EU 2026, Kubermatic’s Sebastian Scheele outlined why sovereignty, operational simplicity, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure control are becoming central to enterprise platform strategy. Backed by Swisscom’s sovereign cloud implementation, the message was clear: Kubernetes success now depends as much on operational credibility as on architecture.
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