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When enterprises start deploying AI workloads, they typically go looking for a dedicated AI gateway. F5 thinks that's the wrong instinct — and they have a straightforward argument for why. About 50% of NGINX deployments already sit in front of Kube...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 4 min read
Every security team knows the frustration. A vulnerability gets flagged. Someone has to understand it well enough to write a protection. That process can take hours if the issue is simple, days if it's complex, and longer if the right human expertise...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 4 min read
Operations teams have no shortage of monitoring tools. What they've been short on is clarity — a fast, readable answer to the question: what should I fix first, and how long will it take? F5 is trying to solve that with F5 Insight for ADSP, announc...
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Most enterprise AI projects don't fail because of the model. They fail because the data underneath it isn't reliable, accessible, or well-governed. That's the argument CData Software is making — and at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit this week in...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 4 min read
If you only watched conference keynotes and social feeds, you might assume the future of agentic AI belongs entirely to Python notebooks and TypeScript frontends. Meanwhile, most systems that agents actually need to reason about and act on are still...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 8 min read
On December 12, 2025, Strategy CPO Saurabh Abhyankar watched Claude Code connect to Mosaic through the Model Context Protocol MCP and build a complete analytics application. No dashboard tool. No BI platform. Just an AI coding agent querying a semant...
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A month after presenting their micro AI agent approach at the 66th IT Press Tour, Helikai announced a strategic partnership with FuriosaAI that addresses one of enterprise AI's most overlooked constraints: power consumption. The partnership certifies...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 3 min read
Anthropic just published research that should make every developer uncomfortable. When AI produces code, documents, or working apps, users stop checking the work. They get more precise about what they ask for up front — but less rigorous about evalua...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 3 min read
Three longtime Lustre developers have formed The Lustre Collective, an independent company focused on advancing the parallel filesystem that powers some of the world's largest supercomputers and AI systems. The company launched at Supercomputing in ...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 3 min read
There's a quiet shift happening in storage engineering. It's not about faster IOPS or bigger flash arrays. It's about density, power, and what happens when a small team decides to build their own SSDs from scratch. Novodisq is a New Zealand-based st...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 2 min read
At the 66th IT Press Tour, Scale Computing presented its consolidated edge computing platform following its merger with Acumera. The company now manages over 100,000 sites and 250,000 edge computing workloads through a unified software stack. Techni...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 4 min read
Zettalane combines ZFS with object storage to deliver 8.14 GB/s throughput at 70% lower cost than AWS EFS. Terraform deployment included. The Problem with Cloud File Storage Cloud file storage costs don't make sense. AWS EFS costs $0.30 per GB per ...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 5 min read
At the 66th IT Press Tour, VergeIO Chief Marketing Officer George Crump presented what might be the most compelling technical argument against traditional IT stacks I've heard in years. The pitch wasn't about incremental improvements or feature pari...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 3 min read
A new survey of 1,125 senior technology leaders reveals a concern for every developer building AI-powered systems: the database layer is emerging as a critical point of failure. According to Cockroach Labs' "The State of AI Infrastructure 2026" rep...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 5 min read
InfoScale showed up at the 66th IT Press Tour with a clear message: enterprise resilience needs to move beyond infrastructure-only approaches. The company, now part of Cloud Software Group, has been protecting mission-critical applications since its ...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 5 min read
At the 66th IT Press Tour in January 2026, Helikai presented a compelling alternative to the "boil the ocean" approach that's dominated enterprise AI conversations. Instead of trying to build omniscient AI systems, they're focused on micro AI agents...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 3 min read
Dynatrace used Perform 2026 to announce several updates that directly affect how developers work. The changes focus on reducing debugging time, adding AI-powered automation, and connecting frontend and backend observability in ways that weren't poss...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 3 min read
Research computing faces a unique architectural challenge: how do you build a platform that works across institutional boundaries, handles petabyte-scale data movement, supports diverse storage systems, and maintains fine-grained security controls, a...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 8 min read
Your database matters less than it used to. Not because databases aren't important. They are. But they're not where competitive advantage lives anymore. For decades, business value lived in systems of record. The company with the best CRM won deal...
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Tom Smithverified in Articles 8 min read
You need an agent to handle code reviews. Or automate testing. Or manage deployments. Or debug production issues. The question comes up immediately: do we build it or use a platform? The honest answer is uncomfortable: it depends on your team, your...
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