Bill James

After several years of massive investment in AI hardware infrastructure, the industry is entering the next phase where sophisticated software platforms will be critical to maximizing utilization, efficiency, and return on those GPU investments. Lightbits Labs introduces Lightinferra, a fully optimized KV Cache Engine, solving long-context AI inference, delivering a huge return on GPU investments! How? Meet us at GTC next week at GTC in ScaleFlux & Lightbits Labs booth #7006 for a demonstration!

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Security isn’t a checkbox — it’s architecture. Unapproved file-sharing apps and outdated MFT platforms quietly introduce real risk. When compliance gaps surface under frameworks like HIPAA or GDPR, the financial and reputational impact can be massive. A better model? Deploy SFTP inside your own cloud environment. Keep data in your tenant. Maintain full audit logs, strong encryption, granular access controls, and native integration across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. When file transfer lives inside your infrastructure — not outside of it — compliance becomes operational, not reactive. #ThornTechnologies

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NVIDIA, Oracle Cloud, and Hammerspace demonstrate massively optimized AI storage at Oracle AI World this week. - Up to 7x improvement in latency vs. traditional cloud file storage - Up to 6x improvement in storage performance vs. traditional cloud file storage - Checkpointing at extreme speeds, crushing idle time. - Throughput so fast it keeps GPUs fed 24/7, not waiting on data. - Policy-driven flexibility to move cold data to lower-cost tiers without touching the hot path. Join Raj Sharma's talk in the NVIDIA booth to learn more!

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If you missed enterprise cyber and AI storage leader Infinidat at Gartner IOCS last week, join us TOMORROW (Dec 18) as we discuss the critical trends in enterprise storage at the 7th Annual Insight Jam Conference in our keynote address: "Key Enterprise Storage Topics For Machine Age Market Architecture". Tune in at 8am PT/11am/4pm GMT/5pm CET to explore how 2026 will unfold for enterprise storage: • Cyber storage resilience and its critical importance to an overall corporate cyber security strategy • AI - both enterprise storage for AI applications and workloads and also the use of AI inside of storage systems for ease of management and to cut costs • The impact of enterprise storage on power budgets and power efficiency • How enterprise storage can dramatically reduce IT CAPEX, IT OPEX, and IT resource needs https://bit.ly/48T0osy Oren Yesharim David Beltrán Vera David Humes II David Sawyer David Muench Tim Dales Bill Basinas Fran Bruno David Lubrano Benjamin Lew Tom Manganaro Tom Dionne Daniel Potts Donato Ceccomancini Marco Meraviglia ☁ Andrea Sappia Andrea Fraietta Marcus Benham Juliet McMullen Anthony DeLisio Karine Haase Lynsy (Calvario) Marshall Rebecca Kraushaar Revital Aharon-Frimerman Kfir Kayakov Shira Ginsburg Solutions Review Tim King Maleeha Haider Jonathan Paula 📸Craig Hibbert Bob Stone Pete Byrne Paul S. Gaccione Paul Stewart George Deveau James Meyers Gene Kussmann JT Lewis Lee Bushnell

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Enterprise software sales isn’t about speed. It’s about alignment. When frontline users, IT, finance, and the C‑suite are aligned, deals move, commits are made. When they aren’t, no amount of pressure fixes it.

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At #AppWorld2026 last week, one theme kept emerging in customer conversations: organizations are racing to adopt AI while managing infrastructure so complex that innovation stalls.   Zeus Kerravala captures this perfectly in his SiliconANGLE & theCUBE piece: "The Age of AI is quickly becoming the Age of Complexity." He outlines three friction points holding back AI adoption and explores how platform convergence—bringing application delivery and security together—helps customers overcome what he calls the "complexity tax."   Zeus, thank you for this thoughtful analysis of our F5 AppWorld news.   Read the full piece: https://lnkd.in/ghfYRz66

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DataBank IMX mentioned as a leading Hyland partner in this report, which covers the IDP market landscape. Heritage players and newly founded companies, all infusing AI capabilites designed to revolutionize how documents are processed today. For us, this has been an incredible journey... not only engaging with customers who only have experienced legacy OCR (with many failed attempts), but also to see these new tools in action within our in-house BPO service, which now has been completely transformed to IDP-first.

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Most supplier collaboration tools work. Until they hit real scale. Portals, viewers, and review platforms reduce friction. But they still assume collaboration happens after the model has been exported. As supplier networks grow — especially across multi-tier global programs common in aerospace and defense — coordination layers multiply. More checkpoints. More oversight. More manual alignment. That’s not collaboration maturing. That’s complexity leaking out of the system of record. #Manufacturing #PLM #SupplierCollaboration #DigitalThread

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